how are you feeling?

[small_magics]

[It seems that perhaps we should speak,] Isibel says to Lycaelon. She wishes him a cup of tea, wherever he is, hovering in the air waiting for him to take it. [Though I confess I do not know where to begin.]

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[poeticterms]

The local Jarvis directs them all to a nearby guest room.

[pythbox]

Some time later - rather longer than it would have taken just to channel up the aura, especially considering Lycaelon was already most of the way there - Corona brainphones Glass.

[Hey, got time to look at an aura?]

[thaumobabble]

[Sure, although I can't always figure them out completely, you want Lazarus for the full interpretive diagnosis.]

[pythbox]

[Yeah. Are you in the castle, or should we teleport?]

[thaumobabble]

[I'm up in my library.]

[pythbox]

Corona teleports.

[wildlymagical]

A moment later, so does Lycaelon.

His aura is noticeably different in flavour from the Bells' magicmagicmagic and the Jokers' theatrical center-of-attention. It advertises that he is powerful and capable, but doesn't bother specifying exactly what he is capable of.

"I've figured out one part," he says. "Enhanced senses. But I can tell there's more to it, and I have no idea what it does."

[thaumobabble]

"Ooh, the senses are a template attractor," Glass says, blinking at him, "that didn't have a way to get at you till just now but took the chance when you gave it an opening. The rest of it looks - not exactly like Sarion's. Yours is more... metaphorical? Is it okay if I have a peep at your mindscape? And it's cooperating with some other stuff that isn't aura that was already protecting your mind, looks very Thilanushinyel-y."

[wildlymagical]

"Go ahead and look. It got bigger all of a sudden," he says. "Or - not exactly bigger - but it used to be a forest in the middle of nothing in particular, and now it's a forest in the middle of more forest. A lot more."

[thaumobabble]

Glass nods, closing her eyes to focus on the forest. "Yeah - the outer forest will sort of entrap anything that tries to get into the inner forest, unless you lead it in. The mind-protecting magic you already had wouldn't have done anything about a dragonbond, but this will, you'll basically be able to escort Ansharil between inner and outer forests whenever you like."

[wildlymagical]

"Well, that's convenient."

[pythbox]

Corona laughs and hugs him.

[thaumobabble]

"Auras are that! So, if you didn't already know it, you have an alt in Gift, named Luhan."

[wildlymagical]

"And apparently one in Peace named Howlett. Alts everywhere," he snorts.

[thaumobabble]

"Howlett I never got a look at, but Luhan I checked over for templatehood," laughs Glass. "You've got easily enough for two alts, probably more somewhere but not necessarily in worlds we have access to yet."

[wildlymagical]

"It comes in amounts?"

[thaumobabble]

"Yes. It's also contagious. Bells are the strongest template I've ever looked at, Jokers a very close second."

[wildlymagical]

"Well that's... bizarre."

[thaumobabble]

"Very bizarre, yes!"

[wildlymagical]

He shakes his head. "Thanks, anyway. It's good to know what that extra forest is all about."

[thaumobabble]

"Glad I could help. What is that other mind protection it's fitting up against?"

[wildlymagical]

"...I have no idea, actually," says Lycaelon.

[thaumobabble]

"It's part of a bigger thing?" says Glass helpfully. "There's a - suite of traits you have, that one's just the easiest for me to recognize because it's cooperating with the aura one and I have more practice recognizing auras."

[wildlymagical]

"The only Thilanushinyel magic I have is Wildmagery and I don't think it comes with any special - hm," he says. "Well, maybe it does, come to that. What else can you tell me about this thing?"

[thaumobabble]

"I've never looked at a Wildmage before, so these are all guesses based on how it's shaped and so on," Glass says, squinting at him. "It's... hooked up to something that isn't you which isn't here. That hookup might be at least partly informational in nature - telling you - things of some kind. There's something in your pocket involved. It's very attached to you, whatever it is, I think it could get ahold of you regardless of world-hopping, what have you got in your pocket?"