[ Certainly leagues better than the situation he’d been in before. He owes his mother for his freedom if nothing else. Thinking about where he was before she sent Lucy to fetch him doesn’t make the distance seem quite so bad.
But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its effects. It certainly does. ]
My mother is an inventor and roving adventurer, the best in her field. I don’t know the full details of many of her jobs, since she’s not at liberty to discuss them. But she shares with me what she can, and they sound wondrous and dangerous in equal measure.
[ Can you miss someone you’ve never actually met? It’s a thought that’s crossed his mind more than once since the subject of his absentee mother has come up with a couple of people.
He breathes out a little laugh. ]
If you thought what I could do was impressive, magnify that by like a hundred and you’d get what my mother is capable of. We’re alike, perhaps, but she’s in a league all her own.
[ Or maybe Declan just underestimates how much he’s grown. ]
Mm. What I was planning hardly matters now. She went missing some months ago. I’ve only recently picked up her trail but… there’s time travel and strange magicks involved, so I have no idea what to expect.
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[ Certainly leagues better than the situation he’d been in before. He owes his mother for his freedom if nothing else. Thinking about where he was before she sent Lucy to fetch him doesn’t make the distance seem quite so bad.
But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its effects. It certainly does. ]
My mother is an inventor and roving adventurer, the best in her field. I don’t know the full details of many of her jobs, since she’s not at liberty to discuss them. But she shares with me what she can, and they sound wondrous and dangerous in equal measure.
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So, she's sort of like you? [ At least the inventor part. ] Were you planning to travel with her some day?
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He breathes out a little laugh. ]
If you thought what I could do was impressive, magnify that by like a hundred and you’d get what my mother is capable of. We’re alike, perhaps, but she’s in a league all her own.
[ Or maybe Declan just underestimates how much he’s grown. ]
Mm. What I was planning hardly matters now. She went missing some months ago. I’ve only recently picked up her trail but… there’s time travel and strange magicks involved, so I have no idea what to expect.