darkest_evening | Overnight

There are things to do, of course, besides being Aya's cuddle buddy. Prime is usually quite busy, and now is no exception. Just because he's personally out of mana, doesn't mean he's utterly useless. His plane's got mages in it, after all - and many of them owe him favors or are amenable to being paid. And they need mirrors, for communication. After longer than was strictly prudent spent comforting Aya, he bids her goodbye and goes to handle the less glamorous moments of being him. That is, talking to people, asking for favors, paying favors, persuading them to say yes, they'll use some of their precious magic stores to make mirrors.

Ironically enough, the one thing missing when he's finished is the mirrors themselves. Easy enough to fix, with Revelation. But he'll take care of it tomorrow - he's tired, and it's been a long and complicated and emotionally exhausting 'day,' even if he doesn't properly have them anymore. Sleep, and then he'll get back to dealing with it all. The mirrors, first, they're easiest, then continuing to figure out what to do about Aya.

When he wakes, he goes to talk to a demon about that. Knock, knock, calling Inferno, is Revelation in?

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"In my case they did it when I was a baby, because my parents were - are, I suppose, probably - slaves. Freeborns are sold into slavery if they have debts they can't otherwise pay or if they commit certain crimes."

That is Prime's 'do not want' face.

"I see."

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"I don't remember how my parents wound up in their situations, but they were freeborn, I remember that."

"We can always ask them, if we get the chance to meet them."

"Can you find them? I don't remember the name of the farm they were on when I was sold, and they may have been moved since, and they won't look like anybell else's parents, but..."

".... Maybe? I can always look. But it could take a while."

"The people with my piece of paper might have a pedigree for me, I suppose, that could help tracking them down."

"It could, but - I also have no idea how to find the piece of paper."

"Oh, I was thinking I'd walk into the office and show them my heel and ask for it."

Prime snickers. "And now I feel foolish."

Snuggle. "It's possible they'll give me a hard time, but it's at least reasonably likely to work."

Snuggle. "I'll go with you, if you like."

"You can - I feel like this might make it look like you're trying to steal me, they might want to check my heel more thoroughly if there's someone obviously with me who could have supplied paint or something."

"... Good point. I can sit it out, then? So as not to cause you problems."

She nods. "When will there be enough mana floating around to make the trip?"

"A few days. Less, if I spend the entire time asleep, but I'm rather useless if I do that."

"You'd make a good pillow," she dares.

"Would I? How would you know, you haven't tested it."

"I can make an educated guess."

"I see. Well, do let me know if you have any more educated guesses."

"Mostly at the moment I just have the pillow one. But if you have too much to do it's fine if it takes a bit longer, a few days won't make a difference."