Open Post: This Is Where The Magic Happens

[rememberettersberg]

A new notice has appeared on the welcome table and at several well-traversed locations around the mansion and its grounds. It invites residents to stop by a certain summer house (which has recently sprung into existence on the shore of the lake) if they are interested in the discussion and/or instruction of magic.

Should anyone's curiosity take them in that direction, they'll find Nightingale there with a pot of tea always on the go and a rotating selection of snacks and nibbles. He's started to cultivate (heh) a small library of his own - important texts in the history of his magical tradition, textbooks for the study of a number of dead/archaic languages, and a growing pile of his own notes.

He'll be delighted to catalogue the differences (and similarities) in the way various worlds practice magic, conduct experiments to see if they can use each other's traditions, and (in the case of Laertes and anyone else that seems like they might be a fit candidate) begin some basic magical instruction.

Closed.

Comments

[onthewillowsthere]

"Is horology making watches?"

At the mention of Laertes he feels a strange little tremor of something. He... he misses Laertes? He hasn't seen him since that night in the kitchen, and he misses his kindness and the warmth of his touches, the quiet company of reading in the library with him. He wants to know him better, enough to understand what Nightingale means by his comment. Laertes is a friend, or close to a friend, and Galahad feels disappointed that he isn't sure.

[rememberettersberg]

"It's the study of time and ways to measure it. Horologists make clocks, watches, sundials, hourglasses... all sorts of timepieces."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Do you have a book like that?"

[rememberettersberg]

"Not personally, but there's a fair chance that the library might."

[onthewillowsthere]

"I want to learn more about that," he admits. It seems like a small enough want to be safe.

[rememberettersberg]

"If you find a suitable volume, you're always welcome here," says Nightingale. "I'm not an expert, but I can probably help you make sense of some of it."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Thank you. I'd like that."