"Yeah."

"So you could make my gate, close it, then open another one when you reach a place you think is safe, to the same place, and I'll go through it when I have enough mana?"

"Yeah. Your gate might take a while to settle, though, so I want to be sure we won't be found in that time wherever I put it."

"Take a while? Why?"

"Sometimes they work right away or take any amount of time between that and a week."

"Oh. Okay."

"And I don't want to leave it open and unattended."

He nods. "Yeah, that wouldn't be good."

Flying flying flying.

Following following following. He can do four hours no problem.

It takes a bit longer for her to be able to invisiblize him but then she does that. Eventually she finds a spot she likes. She lands. She turns them visible.

He keeps a distance from her. She probably doesn't want to be too close to people now, way she threw herself from his arms when he rescinded her orders.

Yep.

"Where do you want to go?"

He describes a hill a distance away from a medieval-ish city where he knows there's a Guild chapter.

Promise marks the edges of the intended gate and casts. She tosses a pebble. It lands on the ground in Fairyland. "Not settled yet."

He squints. "I can see it there. Or—not the gate, but the thing that will be the gate."

"That's not surprising if you can see magic, it doesn't need maintenance to keep trying to settle."

"Yeah, it's... okay when you do sorcery that's not directly changing the harmonics but this is, it's like the gate wants stuff to—align correctly or something."

"Sorcery does change harmonics a little bit by default..."

"Yeah but I mean, this is like—it's different, when you did sorcery it was a bit like you were changing the environment itself and then the harmonics were matching that but this is changing just the harmonics directly? Or. Something, it's hard to translate the stuff I see. ...way easier with this magic, but not easy."

"It shouldn't be just doing that, there's also the part where there will actually be a gate."

He squints more. "—yeah, there's that. It's like... a lockpick, except it's a million of them opening a million locks at the same time? Erm. I'm not sure that analogy makes sense."

"Huh."

"Yeah. ...maybe I can help nudge it along..."

He hasn't tried messing with harmonics, yet, not directly like this. He has some intuition about it after staring all this time, though, so maybe...

Promise tilts her head.