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After Adarin and Isabella depart, Edarial gets back to juggling projects. Unsurprisingly, Iobel is a large help in this. Once she gets a handle on all of the things involved with being a monarch, he can not constantly be doing that alone. He still helps, he's still there doing monarch things and fixing the country, but now he's got a bit more free time to devote to other things.
Accordingly, there's a project he picks back up that he was only tinkering with before his marriage. He'd like to reinvent the fountain that heals familiars, have there be others in strategic locations, so that spellbinders don't need to rush to the capitol to avoid being unmade. Progress on the project's always been slow, there's a reason that it hasn't just been reinvented immediately after the spell charts were lost, but he's got some very good reasons to work on it with a near-obsessive zeal.
One day, to his utter surprise, when he goes to find another portion of the spell-chart to complete, he can't find it. He stares at the chart, stunned. Then he starts checking his work. It takes him a few days to finish the corrections.
Then he's done. He's remade a revolutionary spell chart.
He picks up the huge spell chart, does his best to fold it down to a reasonable travel size, and then heads off to show the nearest spell binder - Iobel.
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royal_obligation
royal_obligation
Edarial nods. "Agreed. But - I think we should let their families know if it's possible? So they don't have to worry?"
come_midnight
"Do you think they could keep quiet about it, especially if the message is 'we can get them back but we're not going to because then everyone would know'?"
royal_obligation
"... Fair point, but maybe if we worded it like - we can get them back but there's a resource cap and we need time to get that fixed before we can do it large scale?"
come_midnight
"Some people might be able to live with that - do you know these particular guards' families?"
royal_obligation
"Zevros would, I'd say. Though he'd insist getting them back immediately, so."
come_midnight
"...I don't remember if it came up in front of him that Isabella can resurrect the dead."
come_midnight
"I mean, she won't do it if I tell her it would be a bad idea, but -" Her eyes dim. "There's my wall-walk. I'll charge yours." White again. "What would Zevros do, stonewalled?"
royal_obligation
"Be really angry at both of us, and Isabella, and possibly Adarin. He might leave the country entirely."
come_midnight
"But not make a massive public announcement that the queen's alternate universe doppelganger can restore the dead to life and health and we're sitting on this information for quote no reason end quote?"
come_midnight
"If he does that, that's bad. If it turns out he does already know Isabella can do that - then how do we prevent the insane run on services we can't actually provide in quantity?"
come_midnight
"Get Adarin to haul in his sister? Because she's been hanging out with witches and presumably understands that there are not infinite witches to be had?"
come_midnight
"Can he be relied upon to not act suddenly, or do we need Zeviana already en route by the time he hears about the guards?" Her eyes darken again. "There's your wall-walk, but it'll keep while the perception charges."
royal_obligation
"He will listen to what we have to say first, but then after that will react very quickly."
come_midnight
"Okay. So - late boat home. Tea. Mirror our alts. Then talk to Zevros and sees if he knows enough to make trouble and is inclined to do so."
royal_obligation
Edarial nods. "If any guards are dead, they could all be alive. Maybe."
come_midnight
"I'd have expected the townspeople to have dug us out. Will the spell let me see clearly in the dark?"
royal_obligation
"Sort of, you'll see people even in darkness, but not things in darkness itself."
And then his eyes stop glowing
This spell's different from the last vision spell, but sort of similar. The world doesn't fade out like before - but she can see people, through walls. Noticeably it's a bit harder to pick some of them out, because some of them blend in with the darkness Iobel sees. But, it obviously works.
And then his eyes stop glowing
This spell's different from the last vision spell, but sort of similar. The world doesn't fade out like before - but she can see people, through walls. Noticeably it's a bit harder to pick some of them out, because some of them blend in with the darkness Iobel sees. But, it obviously works.
come_midnight
"There's a literal blockade of people in front of this building. And the guards are dead."
royal_obligation
Edarial winces. "Damn. A blockade? What are they blockading? Us?"