she waved her hand asking him to sit beside her as a chair was brought for him. “Mother wants me to get to know you I am advised that building a friendship with you might be advantageous to the Queendom.” The princess whispered as soon as he was seated.
As soon as the rest of the visitors had presented their gifts they all retreated to the dining are where the princess sat to his left and another young girl with light brown hair was seated to his right. Throughout the meal he casually chatted with both girls the brown haired girl asking the majority of the questions about the gift he had brought the princess. As the meal was winding down his head began to throb, he had already been inside the place for slightly over two hours, and he knew it was time for him to make his exit but couldn’t think of a way to do that as he was under the uncomfortable eye of the queen.
After the meal was over everyone returned to the grand hall mingling around as group of musicians played a variety of music. The second he and the princess were given a moment of peace he leaned down and told her he couldn't hold up his disguise much longer. Having spent a lot of time around him she understood what he meant. "How much longer can you keep it up - everyone should be breaking off now to their own engagements and it wouldn't be unseemly for you to leave at that time, shouldn't be more than another half hour?"
Thad rubbed his hand across his brow trying to ease the slight throbbing of his head. “I should be able to hold that long, but I’m going to be hurting in the morning.” He said letting out a light chuckle so as not to worry the princess.
Just as the princess had said the party quickly started to wind down, and people began moving away mostly those Thad figured most likely to make deals and reinforce bonds. While Farlan wasn't the biggest land it still took a great deal of time to travel from holding to holding and gathers like this were great opportunities for the highborn to make arrangements. From what he had learned at the academy the school was much the same while all the nobles could easy afford private tutoring Farlan's nobles sent them to school so they could mingle with others of the peerage and make valuable future contacts. Many other counties also sent some of their nobles to the school much for the same reason but in all fairness the school was one of the best available.
With the party dying down Thad made his way to the front gate not wanting to take the chance on getting caught using the secret passage. No one stopped or questioned him on his way out of the palace grounds, and he soon found his way back to his lair.
Chapter V
The next morning he woke to the expected headache. The night before had went well, he only hoped that Monique wouldn't be put out with him for using the company name in his visit to the palace. Setting up he was reminded of his overuse of magic the night before as his vision blurred. He wanted to get to work on his idea of augmenting his own magic but he knew he should wait a day at least before he started on the project. With nothing else to do he began carving out more small wooden tiles. He could just use wood or metals but he discovered that if he used two different bodies one holding the spell and the other the link to him it made using them much easier, and wasted less magic.
Using a thick stick of charcoal and one of the many pieces of brown butcher's papers he began working on a diagram for his staff. He wanted it to be made of marblewood and it needed to be about six foot long. If he worked it the same way he had the music box using a large diamond as the core focus, and other gems as sub cores it would greatly increase its potential. If he could get his staff made along with his rune necklace he would be incredibly dangerous. The staff would increase his power while reducing the strain and the necklace would allow him to cast spells with reduced focus and feed him saved magic, and
As soon as the rest of the visitors had presented their gifts they all retreated to the dining are where the princess sat to his left and another young girl with light brown hair was seated to his right. Throughout the meal he casually chatted with both girls the brown haired girl asking the majority of the questions about the gift he had brought the princess. As the meal was winding down his head began to throb, he had already been inside the place for slightly over two hours, and he knew it was time for him to make his exit but couldn’t think of a way to do that as he was under the uncomfortable eye of the queen.
After the meal was over everyone returned to the grand hall mingling around as group of musicians played a variety of music. The second he and the princess were given a moment of peace he leaned down and told her he couldn't hold up his disguise much longer. Having spent a lot of time around him she understood what he meant. "How much longer can you keep it up - everyone should be breaking off now to their own engagements and it wouldn't be unseemly for you to leave at that time, shouldn't be more than another half hour?"
Thad rubbed his hand across his brow trying to ease the slight throbbing of his head. “I should be able to hold that long, but I’m going to be hurting in the morning.” He said letting out a light chuckle so as not to worry the princess.
Just as the princess had said the party quickly started to wind down, and people began moving away mostly those Thad figured most likely to make deals and reinforce bonds. While Farlan wasn't the biggest land it still took a great deal of time to travel from holding to holding and gathers like this were great opportunities for the highborn to make arrangements. From what he had learned at the academy the school was much the same while all the nobles could easy afford private tutoring Farlan's nobles sent them to school so they could mingle with others of the peerage and make valuable future contacts. Many other counties also sent some of their nobles to the school much for the same reason but in all fairness the school was one of the best available.
With the party dying down Thad made his way to the front gate not wanting to take the chance on getting caught using the secret passage. No one stopped or questioned him on his way out of the palace grounds, and he soon found his way back to his lair.
Chapter V
The next morning he woke to the expected headache. The night before had went well, he only hoped that Monique wouldn't be put out with him for using the company name in his visit to the palace. Setting up he was reminded of his overuse of magic the night before as his vision blurred. He wanted to get to work on his idea of augmenting his own magic but he knew he should wait a day at least before he started on the project. With nothing else to do he began carving out more small wooden tiles. He could just use wood or metals but he discovered that if he used two different bodies one holding the spell and the other the link to him it made using them much easier, and wasted less magic.
Using a thick stick of charcoal and one of the many pieces of brown butcher's papers he began working on a diagram for his staff. He wanted it to be made of marblewood and it needed to be about six foot long. If he worked it the same way he had the music box using a large diamond as the core focus, and other gems as sub cores it would greatly increase its potential. If he could get his staff made along with his rune necklace he would be incredibly dangerous. The staff would increase his power while reducing the strain and the necklace would allow him to cast spells with reduced focus and feed him saved magic, and
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