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.
Pffft touristic options. They could go exploring ancient undiscovered ruins!
...that might take a while, though, so, er, maybe later.
Hey, don't dismiss touristic options. They can be fun.
She does like ancient ruins as well, maybe the two should exchange notes.
They do! And they can do other things like stare at sorcery and deliver books around.
Galatea is extremely expansive. They cannot visit all the interesting things. They cannot visit most interesting things. They cannot visit half of the interesting things. They cannot visit one tenth of the interesting things.
They can visit some interesting things.
They visit other castles and palaces in Bezanab, and pass by lush vegetation and gorgeous rivers and waterfalls and beautiful sunsets through the woods and very big farms, some magically maintained. They see museums in Laokab, and workshops, and statues, and old ruins, and giant glowing spheres that never stop rolling back-and-forth along a predefined path, and beautiful beaches with crystalline water and tides that change several metres due to the moons. They stay in little poor marsh communities that farm crabs in Teinnab, standing below the huge floating cities visible as little blots in the sky, and they go leave their books in universities' huge libraries. They go West and leave books with the few little villages there, and pepper the islands with knowledge. They leave some books with the Guilds of Artificers, Natural Philosophers, Historians, Arcanists, Shoemakers, Magical Engineers, Explorers, Medics, amongst many many others.
And they go North, to the last leg of their journey through the mountains.
It's an interesting while. Not being able to do mangic in public is annoying, spreading magic and knowledge around is very great. Felix designs a typewriter in his spare time, purely for fun.
(He misses his brothers, Katur and Sadde, but he loves Kaede and that is a lot.)
Temperance is very enthusiastic about all of this! She studies sorcery both the metamancer and the regular way. Progress is slow but she is having fun all around.
Through the mountains they go! Eeeeee!
There are mountain villages and ski stations and then just mountains mountains mountains snow snow snow cold cold cold—
Onwards!
After the mountains: the desert. Expanding as far as the eye can see into the north.
The fluffy coats are still useful at night. Temperance spends more time staring at sorcery now that there are fewer sights to see.
They eventually find the ocean, right?
...it is a very large desert. It is extremely hot in the day, and very cold in the night. That over there looks a lot like a sandstorm.
There isn—is! There's an outcropping of rock over there leading to a small underground cave.
Not very!
Well, presumably they could erect a force field or something around the opening?
Yup!
Good. Temperance wants to relax from researching portal-sorcery. So she is going to research weather-protection sorcery. She writes her notes on the cavern's wall. Maybe someone someday might find them useful.
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