Well it's time to celebrate your birthday, it happens every year

[pinprick]

WHO: Anders, Nathaniel, and invitees!
WHAT: Fancy birthday party in Camp Shady
WHEN: Harvestmere 27, evening
WHERE: Camp Shady
NOTES: Will update.

Since many Wardens moved into the Kestrel House, there is plenty of space in the camp for a big top tent. Finding enough candlesticks, tables, and chairs required a lot of time and a number of bribes to pull off. The tables are nicely draped with fabric lent by one of Anders' patients, and each is decorated with flowers. The tent is alight and smells like good food--more donations from grateful patients.

One of the Wardens is known for her fiddling, and she plays lively dances and crooning ballads. In the center table is an ice sculpture of a cat chasing a butterfly (you guessed it--donated by a mage patient). It glitters spectacularly in the candlelight.

On the menu is a slow-roasted pig, spiced hot cider, spectacular salads, jams, cakes, delectably seasoned vegetables, a lamb-flank, and your choice of wine. There is even a hard-won bottle of Antivan brandy Nathaniel had to win several card games to achieve.

Relax, enjoy, greet the birthday boy, and mingle. The nights will be cold soon, but under this tent, life glows.

Comments

[circleprodigy]

"Yes, exactly. Ice magic is something anyone can learn, but I took very easily to it from a young age." Why it wasn't the first spell she manifested, Inessa can't say, but she's had access to it for almost as long.

"What of your world's magic? Is there any equivalent to be had?"

[conqueredhearts]

"I'm afraid I don't know much about how the magic of my world works. I was never a mage. Should a certain mage I know arrive then I will get in touch with you to have you meet him. He will be able to explain better than I." That and he had no problem forcing Waver to make friends.

[circleprodigy]

That has Inessa perking up and she nods eagerly. "I would appreciate that. Even though it doesn't seem that we can learn each other's magic, exactly, the insight alone would be invaluable. I look forward to it, whenever it can happen."

[conqueredhearts]

"He will be able to give insight I am not familiar with at least. I believe magic was something he was in school for before we met." A lot had happened and it could be difficult to keep all of it straight. Remembering his lifetime and then a world of basic information for a modern era was challenging to say the least. "Besides that, he could use some friends. It would do him good."