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𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑢𝑛𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠, 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡.

𝑇𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡: 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛. 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡. 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑅𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦. 

𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛, 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘. 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑟. 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒. 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠.

𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑔, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦. 𝐼𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒. 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒, 𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐼'𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒.

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[beautifullies]

𝐼'𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑎. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼'𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑦𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠.

[divinityfrompain]

It's possible my gifts with the earth could come in handy here. I know it's a delicate process though so I'd be very careful.

[beautifullies]

𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙; 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒-𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ. 𝐼𝑓 𝑤𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑.

[ She probably could have thrown magic at the entire thing and been done with it and maybe she should have, but she likes getting dirty, digging in the dirt and uncovering things with her bare hands. Still, a little magic is okay. ]

𝐼𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝐼'𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤.

[divinityfrompain]

I'm sure it won't be tedious! It's a cool idea. We can do our best impression of Indiana Jones!

[ On the archaeology side, although he never did any good digging that she could see. ]

Oh, now that I can absolutely do. The earth and I are good friends these days.

[beautifullies]

𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑜 𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝐽𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.

[ It's too bad they can't have a movie night. Claire would love at least one of those movies. ]

𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑦. 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜, 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒.

[ They talked a bit about this at her solstice party; this dig isn't just an opportunity for Claire to teach others. She's just as open to learning, whether it's from someone who has more experience in archeology, or from someone whose magic can put things back to rights. ]

[divinityfrompain]

Oh they're these great old movies about an archaeology professor who is also a hot adventurer. He steals artifacts and yells about how they should be in a museum and has a whip.

Of course! I'd be happy to teach you magic from my world too, there are some good spells that aren't hard to learn.

[beautifullies]

𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.

[ Though, if there were, she can imagine it would be in the Free Cities, rather than Solvunn. ]

𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝. 𝐵𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑔.