It's been an hour. The storm is still going strong.

A weather-ward isn't that complicated - at least not one that only needs to protect against wind and sand - and is done within an hour.

"How long should we wait until we try to brute-force our way out?"

"Like half a day?"

"Fair enough. Any ideas of what to do in the meantime?"

He glances at Temperance and shrugs. "Reverse-engineer sorcery."

"Somehow, I think I can live through that terrible ordeal."

"Gosh, can you? You have a surprising inner strength Temperance."

He giggles. And starts poking at sorcery.

Sorcery: is poked.

The storm lasts eight hours, and it's almost morning when it's done.

Time to sleep. Felix snuggles Kaede.

"I probably should get my other sorcery-gifts. I am not sure if it's worth the time investment for you two though."

"'Get' them?"

"Train them, I mean."

"You can just do that?"

"Oh, right, most of your knowledge is from the second sorcery book. There are lifeforce exercises that allow you to grow sorcery-gifts. I don't remember directly how I got mine, but the books explain and I can infer the rest from context clues from what I remember."

"Oooh, that sounds neat," Temperance says with the curious tone of voice that the two might recognize.

"I don't know if it's the best way to spend your time."

"Ah, but it could be done during my free time from portal-sorcery!"

"I suppose it could," he sighs. It's not like he's going to get breaks from that.

Well, it is not a break, but it is time to go to sleep so they go back traveling at night.

Yes, sleeping is a good idea. He snuggles up to Felix and looks at magic until he falls asleep.

Zzzzzzzz.

There is a loud rumbling noise in the middle of the day.

Felix wakes them up. What sort of noises is this?