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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[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?"

[wildlymagical]

"My Three Books," he says, drawing them out for her inspection. "You can only read them if you're a Wildmage, and they follow their Wildmage around - I'm not surprised that they could do it across worlds; they're very persistent."

[thaumobabble]

She flips through them. "They look blank to me, with my regular vision anyway, they're extremely shiny by magic-sight - huh." She hands them back. "Anyway, they're part of the same suite of traits."

[wildlymagical]

"In that case, I might know what that is," he says. "But I wouldn't have expected it. There are supposed to be signs that someone is a Knight-Mage, and I'm missing most of them. Still, stranger things have happened, I guess."

[thaumobabble]

"I'd need to look at some other Wildmages. What are the signs you're missing?"

[wildlymagical]

"Knight-Mages are supposed to be bad at casting spells. I'm not. They're supposed to have some kind of mystical attunement to the arts of war, and I haven't noticed anything like that either."

[thaumobabble]

"I'd have to compare you to other Wildmages to see if you're relatively bad at spells in any way I can detect... You have a template attractor for being good at fighting, which might be substituting for a magical boost?"

[wildlymagical]

He laughs. "The Wild Magic knows what it's doing, I guess."

[thaumobabble]

"I suppose! I don't suppose it has some convenient physical form I could peek at? Liselen is hooked up to it too but not in quite the same way you are, but that's not the same as actually seeing it."