Part 24
“We should investigate whether the youths and fools of Serminak are also exploring the new limits of extreme recreation.” Kragorram suggested to Povon. “After this massage, of course, and perhaps after I return the favor. But my thinking is this; while the parents and conservatives of Serminak are unlikely to be offended by any new foolishness among them, the youth and fools there are likely to be even more extreme than those elsewhere, particularly if they start goading and baiting one another about it. I think we should make sure there are no new problems developing. Even with the Healing, there are still the issues of potential property damage, and possibly harmful character development.”
“They don’t have to worry about property damage too much.” Val opined. “My Work spell is like a Healing for inanimate objects. Its Restore and Repair functions can fix almost anything.”
“Good point.” Kragorram admitted as he rolled to the side a bit to give Povon better access. “But there’s still character development to be considered, and of course the possibility of other unexpected problems. With the Sylvan especially, the unexpected is always an issue, and we would be wise to not be complacent.
“We’ve also been delegating and perhaps neglecting some of our duties in Serminak. As Dren said to Mark; first we were in the time-bubble, and since we emerged we’ve been occupied with other matters, mostly military. Life in Serminak has changed more than in any other place since we emerged, due to almost universal compliance with our children’s new training and social systems. I just think we should make sure there aren’t any major and potentially dangerous trends being established among them. Find out what life is like in the streets and homes and barracks and dens of our people.”
“Those are very noble thoughts, my love.” Povon told him with a warm smile as she scratched between his wings. “Of course, that’s why I hired you.”
“I was hired?” he chuckled.
“It was me who asked Mark to make you my second-in-command, remember?” she teased.
“Yes, but hired? I’m getting paid for this?” he teased in return.
leaned down and murmured in his ear; “Actually no,
he laughed with a hearty rumble and a big puff of smoky yellow flame from
resumed his massage. “But you haven’t, and until
makes perfect sense.” he
me cast as much privacy as we can possibly manage.” Fire suddenly ordered.
they each cast their strongest psionic shielding around the
nodded. “I hope no one else out there picked up on my thoughts
exercises are really useless. Unless there’s an unbelievable absolute worst-case scenario, none
When we get killed in an exercise, we let ourselves stay dead, when in real life Father’s preset Resurrection spells would bring us back to life, and so would the ones we came up with to meet the immortality requirement in the
I’ve already come up with one that automatically finds the enemy and casts Tithian’s Gate-to-the-sun attack on all of their exposed surfaces. Nothing could
nearly as complex as Val’s Education spell or even her Work spell. The hardest part was
the sun. I could cast two collection fields completely around the sun and take all of it. Compared to that, everything the gods and The Triax and everyone else on Kellaran could do
cast collection fields around every star in this section of the galaxy, or even around the core of the galaxy, or even the whole galaxy itself. And if you cast a spherical Gate around a star you can take all of the
could absolutely eliminate that rock full of demons right now, and I don’t see why I don’t. We could let our people get back to a more normal life. Or trying to figure out a new one, actually, since everything has already changed. The nexus