This post's authors have general content warnings that might apply to the current post.
View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
Isibel spends her last day on the island flying, and then she rejoins her expedition, and packs, and sleeps, and in the dawnlight she gets back on the boat to sail back to the Elven Lands.
She is kept quite occupied with small magics to keep the ship operating smoothly, and also with notebooking - writing quite small, as she brought more than enough notebooks for three weeks but then unexpectedly used many of them to draw and write with the demon and has only half of one left for several days at sea.
They land on the shore of the Elven Lands on schedule, and disembark.
small_magics
"I know you have to bond with a dragon to save the world," he says, "and I guess it has to be the one you found, and it had better be sometime this year, and I'm supposed to stay with you until you decide you're definitely going to do it but I don't have to follow you all the way across the ocean or anything, which is good because I get really seasick, it's awful."
small_magics
Isibel writes.
This makes it all seem more final, somehow.
"I should talk to Magania. She's going to speak to the other dragons about the one on the island."
This makes it all seem more final, somehow.
"I should talk to Magania. She's going to speak to the other dragons about the one on the island."
"I See you, Isibel," says Magania. "Anything you may wish to tell of what passed between you and Kareta's son would make good hearing."
small_magics
"I am supposed to Bond with a dragon," Isibel says softly, in no condition to weave layers of indirection, "and save the world. It's possible I'll survive this physically, but I hold little hope for the state of my soul. I do not even know if I will hold together well enough under such scrutiny to save the world in the first place."
small_magics
Isibel nods. "I thought perhaps I could accompany you to speak to the dragons. And their Bondmates. They may have wisdom to offer me from their own experiences."
small_magics
"Thank you."
And Isibel goes back to where Liselen is waiting, taking careful, even steps.
And Isibel goes back to where Liselen is waiting, taking careful, even steps.
small_magics
"I See you," murmurs Isibel. "Magania is willing that I accompany her to speak to the other dragons."
small_magics
"Thank you."
Isibel returns to within eyeshot of Magania, and she waits, and she tries to think of thoughts she needs to have before there's no privacy to be had, but she can't think of anything.
Isibel returns to within eyeshot of Magania, and she waits, and she tries to think of thoughts she needs to have before there's no privacy to be had, but she can't think of anything.
small_magics
Isibel tags along while Magania introduces the situation, as it will be easier to explain exactly what she has to do once the dragons are alerted to the existence of her future Bondmate.
Magania explains that there is a dragon on the island, Bonded to what seems to be a benign Endarkened.
While the debate about what to do with the dragon's Bondmate is ongoing, a consensus quickly emerges that the dragons should send an expedition. Magania defers to Isibel for any knowledge she may have of the island dragon's willingness to engage in producing eggs.
While the debate about what to do with the dragon's Bondmate is ongoing, a consensus quickly emerges that the dragons should send an expedition. Magania defers to Isibel for any knowledge she may have of the island dragon's willingness to engage in producing eggs.
"Good," rumbles Ancaladar. "That simplifies things."
"And we're going to need all the simplicity we can get," snorts Saravasse.
"And we're going to need all the simplicity we can get," snorts Saravasse.