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In Paraasilan, Esmaar, a pair of roommates are about to break a rule that, compared to the one about running in the corridors or even the one about unlicensed teleportation, is there for a good reason.

In unison, they complete their shared spell.

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with Adarin (Aestrix)

with Ekador (kappa)

with Brilliance (kappa)

with the admin (kappa)

with Teah (kappa)

with Katran (lambda)

with Hall (kappa)

with Joy (kappa)

with Kalinda (Christy Hotwater)

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"But inventing a spell like that would take weeks, if a half-trained wizard could do it at all - I could summon my wife right now?"

[ending_of]

"Yes."

[alicornucopia]

"Right, Keo, there's a circle in Kanaat's office?"

"Yes. Smudged, but you can use it."

Narax teleports away.

He is back less than a degree later.

"It didn't work," he says in a low almost-growl.

[ending_of]

"I am not familiar with your magic," says the admin. "But the most obvious explanation, if the spell correctly looked for her in my domain and failed to find her there, is that she is not dead."

[alicornucopia]

"She was murdered, I can't find her empathic signature, her friend crema-" Narax stops midsentence. "Oh, that bitch would have done it, wouldn't she, if she could, if she got the chance? But..."

"I don't know what to think, now," says Keo, shaking her head.

[ending_of]

"Who would have done what?"

[alicornucopia]

"Would have faked Samia's death to get her away from me. If everything had lined up for it."

[ending_of]

"This is usefully informative," the admin muses. "When I index the stored dead, I should provide a clear result if the person being sought is still alive."

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah. But - if she's alive she's incredibly damaged, somewhere," says Narax.

[ending_of]

"That is not a problem within my power to solve."

[alicornucopia]

"Right. Well, I'm going to be busy for a while, and Keo, when I find her -"

"Of course," says Keo.

Narax teleports away.

[ending_of]

[alicornucopia]

Meanwhile, in the library, Kaylo is FURIOUSLY INVENTING.

[lookingforwardtoit]

Eights wanders in.

...The FURIOUS INVENTION is kind of a spectacle.

[alicornucopia]

It kind of is!

He notices her when he's switching between reference volumes. "What?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

She doesn't speak the local language, but she can guess what he meant. "Sorry, it's just kind of amazing how intense you're getting with those books," she says, in... the same language the admin was speaking.

[alicornucopia]

"Well, while I get to do theoretically revolutionary things on a pretty regular basis this is special - where did you pick up this language?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"It's my native language, actually, where did you?"

[alicornucopia]

"I'm a dragon," says Kaylo. "Just how many offworlders did Korulen summon?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Not sure who that is. Keo's the one who grabbed me," she says.

[alicornucopia]

"Keo did? Why?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"To get a local opinion on Downside, I guess. What're you busy revolutionizing?"

[alicornucopia]

"...I'm inventing the summoning circle to allow stable traffic from here to there. You're from it?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"I am from it!" she confirms. "You must be Kaylo. Admin said she found you charming. What's your secret?"

[alicornucopia]

"...I don't know that I've actually been called charming in recent memory, so I have no idea. I was looking for Korulen because she used to live in that room and instead there was a person in a circle and she wanted my input on dragon related things and I said I would invent this thing. Also I need to talk to a Sand Dusk Chanter, which I'm not looking forward to, because the library doesn't have any decent references on their little culty spells."