"Yeah, I think Juniper-and-company can handle that. Can I get an extra robot or three to replace the one on mirrorwatch duty?"

"Yeah, no problem."

Don't mind Cypress, he will just be falling asleep on his wife over there. Zzzzzz.

"Okay then, you can - uh. Go back to bed, I think, sorry for bothering you in the middle of the night."

"Right. Prime, I'll be over in like - four, five hours to sleep you?"

"Sure. Thank you."

"'kay." The mirror disconnects and she hauls her husband back to bed.

Cypress is fine with being hauled! Sleep, yay.

"Right. So we should - pitch this to Phix and Max, and then if that works, the dragon."

"Yep." Cam flicks off the mirror connection to Prime and heads back to where all the portals are.

"I wait with bated breath," the dragon mutters.

Adana offers what she hopes is a comforting smile, and then - onward, to Medallion.

Where there are deer-and-kitty snuggles in progress.

"Hey," murmurs Adana, gently.

"Hi," says Max the deer.

"Oh, you can talk again."

Blink, blink. "... I can," he says, surprised. "I hadn't even been testing it, I just - okay, cool, getting a chant interrupted is something you can recover from, that's nice."

"Good, it would be really irritating if you had to be mute until we found an alt who could fix you somehow. You'd have to do magic by sign language..."

"We want to put mirror spells on the dragon. One openly on his medallion, one discreetly on one of his eyes so we have warning if he tries to circumvent the medallion one. One of Ice's robots'll watch the feeds and report if he does anything sphinx-related, magical, violent, monster-retrieving-oriented, etcetera. And I see no need to give him multiple chances if he makes further attempts on your life or - claws."

Max frowns. "... Okay. Tentative okay, on my part."

"I haven't actually met any of Ice's robots."

"Well, you can meet the ones I'm going to make before I send them into Chamomile to fill in the hole the surveillance will make in her colony-maintenance workforce."

"Probably not actually necessary - if she thinks they're smart enough, then - yeah. I guess." She swallows. "I sort of regret that the portal is in our house so he has to go through that way."

"Same," sighs Max. Snuggle, snuggle. "We can - I know the mages have a door-locking thing, we can poke one of them to do that? So he can't ever come back in our house without permission?"