[ there's a good possibility that this is less about effort it takes to draw stephen from his reading and much more about the tradition of it, the routine. she jokes about time and how easily stephen lets himself fade from it only because she knows there is weight to her teasing. no, none of them really keep track of that, just as they don't keep track of much of anything as of late. the years pass just as quickly as they pass through territories, kingdoms, time and space itself.
she watches with a smile, feeling the thrum of power where the two of their hands meet from where she stands. it's a familiar sensation, something akin to her own, but also something she only feels when the three of them come together like this.
part of her just wants a moment to breathe it in, to feel something in her settle, calm. she looks from aegis to stephen before nodding once. ]
The ice wall. [ she takes that as her cue to step back away from the two, lifting a hand and forming a portal against the back wall of the tavern they walked in to. not a single mortal notices, not that they're supposed to. ] Because I am not walking there. [ a glance to aegis, pointed, and then she moves to step through - the last word of her comment just barely heard through the magic. ] And don't forget your books, Stephen.
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she watches with a smile, feeling the thrum of power where the two of their hands meet from where she stands. it's a familiar sensation, something akin to her own, but also something she only feels when the three of them come together like this.
part of her just wants a moment to breathe it in, to feel something in her settle, calm. she looks from aegis to stephen before nodding once. ]
The ice wall. [ she takes that as her cue to step back away from the two, lifting a hand and forming a portal against the back wall of the tavern they walked in to. not a single mortal notices, not that they're supposed to. ] Because I am not walking there. [ a glance to aegis, pointed, and then she moves to step through - the last word of her comment just barely heard through the magic. ] And don't forget your books, Stephen.