Maybe when they have the chance to talk in person they'll realize there's nothing to be afraid of. Less likely things have happened to him this week. 

We're at the house in Isarn. 

She teleports to the house in Isarn, then, bringing only Wishbone with her.

Wishbone immediately runs off to find the other Naima. He is kind of annoyed that people decided to turn her into a book without so much as giving him a chance to talk to her, when he's been worrying about her all week and only just figured out why she was so distressed, and he's anxious to talk to her now. He doesn't care about looking partial to one of them.

She scoops Wishbone up and hugs him. She would really, really like to prepare her spells, but she doesn't want to leave prematurely leave if Elie and the copy are set on talking first. She's supposed to be trying to be civil and cooperative.

This mostly results in her staring awkwardly at her copy.

...is she supposed to be saying something? She's not the one who wanted to have a meeting right away -

"Uh, would you like to prepare your spells first, or - is there something more pressing," she asks, ending up mostly speaking to Elie, since Elie is in fact the one who wanted to have a meeting right away.

Oh no they expect him to mediate. 

"Whatever would make you most comfortable." Comfortable enough to be having this conversation, Please. 

"...I'll prepare spells then, thank you." She sort of feels like she should apologize for the delay, but she really wants to have them as soon as possible. She heads into the next room, carrying Wishbone with her.

"Of course."

I suppose it's obviously the thing she'd want first, if she hasn't had them for a week.

I hope she feels better able to speak to you with her spells ready. I know I should feel perfectly naked without mine. 

Yes. Not just without them, but alone and without them, in a strange place. She'll feel better soon.

Naima does not feel better.

She tries preparing her most powerful spells, and can't. She tries preparing lower ones, and can't. She can prepare spells at fifth circle, and no higher. 

She gives herself a teleport, and a plane shift, and halfheartedly prepares the rest, though she can't imagine what she'll use them for today.

"You must not have grown, when you were asleep."

"I must not have. It's - not surprising, when you put it that way."

"No. But you grew once. There's nothing to stop you from doing it again, is there?"

"No." Other than having already completed all of the most difficult things she's ever wanted to do, and being wildly out of step with all of the friends she grew alongside the first time.

She returns to the other room, twisting her hands uncomfortably. "Thank you, I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I have spells, but I - do not actually have - I believe I'm fifth circle."

That – makes perfect sense. He should have expected it: only one Naima was awake, out in the world, facing peril. And the situation was already impossible enough: if some second-rate necromancer could duplicate the powers of an archmage, why not Nex, or Aroden? Not that they know how it was done – 

– but that kind of thinking's no good to either Naima. The real question is: why not Élie Cotonnet?

"I'm sorry. Do you want me to find a way to fix it?"

She barks a laugh. There is no humor in it. "That is not what I was going to ask for, no. Not that I wouldn't love to have all of my abilities, but it isn't really the sort of situation where there's actually any problem to be fixed, is there."

"I think that's entirely up to you."

She sighs. "I doubt this can be cheated at. Maybe I shouldn't, given everything else we've done, but I don't have any idea how one would begin to approach it. I simply haven't had the experiences necessary to grow, and I doubt that more similarly sized problems are likely to come along and depend on me in particular to solve them."

"If you decide you want to approach it, I'll find a way it can be approached. I've had quite enough experience of problems that can't be solved with magic – at my stage of life, I don't think there's any use for them. We have time, and two archmagi, and – "

And that does rather assume the other Naima's participation – 

" – and I think it could be done, if you like. You don't have to."

Well, if it can be done, it would be stupid to not, even if most of the methods she can think of offhand make her feel sick. She feels tired just thinking about it, and also - humiliated, thinking of herself not taking it on, but believing that it could be taken on, and having to think of herself as half an invalid, instead of accepting it as how things are and learning to live as what is actually still a very powerful and useful spellcaster, as far as people in general go -

And she doesn't immediately want to tell Elie any of that, which might be a bigger problem than the four missing circles.

The other Naima does not have a good solution to this, and is honestly a little busy feeling devastated about the other Naima's missing power for her own reasons, but she at least knows that this is not the first order of business.

"We are in any case not going to come up with an immediate solution, and claiming long-term bilocation isn't going to work if our tapping works differently."

"Unless one of us doesn't do tapping, of course."

"Yeah."

"Even if you don't have precisely the same capabilities, we could claim that long-term bilocation trades off duration for spell-casting power. Nobody could dispute it."