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The stone you find contains the matrix for a spell of the Magic Blue, your own specialty. It does not take you long to identify the angles of its internal array and how the flow of prana shall be shaped into an actualized mystery when pushed through the gemstone. After all, it is one of the first spells you mastered, one that requires a single breath of prana to actualize, not even a full circle of breathing.
[Reinforce]
A spell beautiful in its simplicity, with a wide variety of applications that you have used throughout your life. A rare spell from the Magic Blue that can survive outside of the body without fading into nothingness over a course of mere moments. Less powerful in its actualization than higher order spells, but that is to be expected of something that costs a mere breath to cast. But where other spells are specialized tools of enhancement, [Reinforce] can do just about anything.
You can [Reinforce] your skin to make it as hard as steel.
You can [Reinforce] your eyes to improve your vision ten-fold.
You can [Reinforce] your mind to think faster, and come to better conclusions.
You have better spells for all of that, of course, ones that flow constantly through your body - especially now that you've a grand lake's worth of the Divine Fluids circling in your core. Yet there are more applications than those. When you were but a girl, and the Laughing Knight held you and your sworn swords in siege of your summer tower, you [Reinforced] your provisions and made a single bite of bread as nutritious as a full meal. When you sang at your debut, you [Reinforced] your voice and became a full choir of but one girl.
And so on, and so forth.
It was truly such a handy spell, if the basics of basics when it comes to the Magic Blue. One might think a spellstone a waste, but in truth that just makes it more efficient, even simpler to cast. So you carefully shape it into a lapis ring to wear upon your thumb, hands steady to keep the array intact. When it slips into a perfect fit, a smile crosses your face, and your awareness returns to your surroundings.
[My Lady, I implore you!] Romulus sounds a bit panicked - oh, did you miss something he said? You follow him to where Astra went off to find more treasure. [You must aid Miss Astra. In her hunt for treasure, she's been met with an awful fate. I would slay the beast myself, but I'm afraid of hurting Miss Astra.]
When you arrive... you understand completely. Astra has fallen prey to a mimic and is suffering a wretched fate indeed. Though from the sound of things, she's enjoying it, at least....
>Bonk the mimic until it frees her.
>Pull her from the mimic's tendrils.
>Sit down and watch her with a judgmental gaze, and inform her that you expect her to escape on her own.
>Scritch Romulus behind the ears and go make camp for the day. She'll be done when she's done with it.
>You know, you read somewhere that the mana transference between a mimic and its captive can be rerouted quite easily...
