auspex_caelo: (Ex terra)
Stratos Caelus ([personal profile] auspex_caelo) wrote 2019-09-02 12:19 pm (UTC)

While Terentius chuckles at Jim before he shuts the door, Stratos looks like he’s doing his best to unhear his uncle’s teasing. Or perhaps he’s just entirely preoccupied: he’s wiping his hands on a cloth by the wash stand before he spreads the map flat on the desk, pulls a slide rule from a drawer. The mage’s focus is intent as he measures starting points and angles and traces thin charcoal lines out across the inked lines of bays and lakes and mountain ranges.

“Ah,” he says, distracted, “tell me if you need help with them.” Scribble, scribble. East, and north.. He passes a hand over the map, and constellations of bright points flicker above it for a minute before he’s sure.

“We can take a few minutes to… collect ourselves. But then we need to go. Even if I take us to the closest co-ordinates I have, we’ll need to walk a long way.” He rubs at his temples: he has much more stamina than Felix, but he’s starting to feel the effects of so many strong – worse, unfamiliar - spells in so short a time. It takes a moment before he thinks to add, “Oh, and best look for a scarf to tie over your mouth. Our next stop is Morrowind, and the ash will not be kind to our lungs.”

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