Temperance composes a letter to send home explaining the concept of a printing press and then goes to sleep. She wakes up early and starts doing magic research on her own. Comparing what she knows and what the book tells her. She has a late lunch and then remembers to actually send her letter.
That done she sits in the library and proceeds with her research. She ate enough at lunch that she decides to skip dinner and wait for Kaede while reading.
Shrug. "We could follow the coastline, maybe until we found a river. Is the anti-scrying still blocking things now that we are on this end?"
"I think we should stick to the coastline then. At least until we find more distinguishable landmarks."
"Okay." Onwards!
The rain continues beating down on them (and Kaede is so happy for the wards, seriously, she hates the damp) but it's almost cozily tolerable compared. Their enhanced vision starts behaving weirdly, though—it looks as if the landscape in the distant is distorted, or not consistent while they fly.
Is that because they are using enhanced vision? Does it look distorted if they take it off? How about if they use light distortion to improvise a telescope?
After some experimentation it seems like... space itself... might be a bit distorted there.
Wow.
"Okay, any chance that the ancients could blow up the world but were smart enough to prevent it even if they weren't smart enough to stop their own doom?"
"...maybe, but then we ought to stop modelling them as a single unified mass and start thinking in terms of a whole society of different people with different agendas, which, obviously that's true, but we don't know how their society was organised and what sort of thing could have happened."
"Yeah. At any rate, is the space distortion magic enough you could drain from it or something?"
"Not from this far, we'd need to get closer, but I'm wary of doing that and getting too far from the coast and thoroughly turned around."
"Agreed. We should at least check and see if there is anything interesting or informative near the coast first."
"Yeah, it doesn't even need to be another magical effect, just the weather preventing roots from taking place and washing off any fertile soil."
"Yeah, do you think there is a way to make the storm calmer on this side without breaking the entire structure?"
"I was thinking of draining part of the structure, without breaking it completely."
"I know, I didn't mean it as something to do today. It just might be reasonable to not undo the thing all at once, but we might want to undo it on this side."
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