"Yeah." Her grin brightens. "I wouldn't go take a thing, not without some really good reason and trying other stuff first. But people really aren't supposed to own other people, and it's the same kind of challenge, and the challenge is what matters."

Hug.

Beam, hug. Snuggle.

"There are more Jedi who need the exiling spell. Are you available tomorrow?"

Nod. "Ana and Raafi have plans, but I'll be around, sure."

"Good. There won't be as many this time. Is the same place convenient?"

Nod. "The groups can be a little bigger, I don't think that'll make it go any faster, though."

"All right. Until tomorrow, then." Hug.

Grin, hug, poof.

Sleep, breakfast, magic class: probably all uneventful.

Indeed, it is so.

Lunch, slightly less so.

"Raafi, would you mind coming with me on my errand someday soon?"

Raafi looks surprised and uncomfortable, and pauses before responding. "Perhaps today?" He looks to Ana to see if she'll mind.

She nods.

He echoes the nod. "Yes, today."

The kobold cocks her head at him. "You don't have to."

"Better if I do, if you have reason to ask. I wasn't expecting to be invited, is all."

She watches him for a few seconds, and then sighs and goes to lean on him. "It'll be fine."

"I know," he says, and pets her.

Aww, you guys! Hugs!

Raafi grins at Ana and leans into the hug as well as he can without displacing the kobold.

Lunch nom nom.

Nom lean nom lunch, and then Raafi suggests Ana go wait by the lake - he won't be long, right? well, probably not - and he and the kobold pop back up to the cave to talk, and then they go to see Occlus.

Occlus raises an eyebrow when she sees the kobold brought Raafi.

"They didn't want to wait. I haven't heard anything about the Council yet."

"Very well..."

Raafi blinks - he's back in his farmhand persona, and has been since they teleported in - and looks at the kobold, who gives him an encouraging 'go on' gesture; he looks back at Occlus, looks away, and starts chanting and gesturing.

This... is not a Good person sitting in front of him. In fact, there almost seems to be more than one presence, but they are all somehow the same person. The overall impact is quite strong.

Occlus sits patiently while he casts.

Raafi takes a step away, involuntarily; the kobold reaches up to put her hand on his back. He drops the spell and looks down at her, his face showing a very eloquent what the hell?

Occlus very carefully controls her amused reaction.

Raafi and the kobold are having a moment. It ends with her making a stern face at his concerned one, to which he responds with I don't like it but I know I'm not going to convince you, shoots a final, worried look at Occlus, and then teleports away.

"Well, that's not going to help anything."