“I do not know. I am focused on making love with you for the first time with our actual bodies.”
Renny dropped a kiss on his nose. “Going to have to wait a little longer for that, Roriethiel.”
“What?”
“It’s going to be special, not just us tearing our clothes off. After our matebond ceremony, we’ll have sex, okay?”
“Will you agree to sleep in a bed with me until this event can be carried out?”
“Absolutely, I already got rid of the extra one in our room.”
“It is as if you can read my mind, Ren.”
“We know each other’s hearts,” Renny murmured, pulling Rorie close and holding the man he adored.
∞∞∞
Sorcery D’Vaire usually had meetings on Saturday afternoon, but everyone involved had preferred to offer what comfort they could to Drekkoril and Rorie, so they were gathering around their beautiful table with two new additions on Sunday instead. There was no need to vote on whether the only living light Fae would be a part of their group. As Renny’s mate, Rorie had an automatic invite, and Drekkoril was too important to them to ignore.
“This room is grand,” Rorie told Renny as they took their seats.
“I am most eager to learn all of the Council world,” Drekkoril remarked, selecting a chair on the other side of Rorie.
“Don’t worry, dear. We’ll make sure you get every book and scroll we can to complete your education, won’t we, Vadimas?” Saura asked.
“Of course,” Vadimas replied.
“Is everyone ready to get started?” Rafe asked. “Okay, let’s start with Brogan. I know you have a request.”
“I like that you’ve already learned to read my mind,” the Grand Duke teased. “Safety is always going to be my top priority. I would like to ask that Drekkoril and Rorie both add a layer of magic to the dome that protects our home and Elven D’Vaire.”
“It would be an honor to help keep every D’Vaire safe,” Drekkoril responded, and Rorie nodded enthusiastically.
“With that easily settled, what’s next? We weren’t working on anything, so let’s throw out ideas,” Aleksander suggested.
“We spent countless hours absorbing all the information we could on the Fae. It’s our duty to take what we’ve learned and put it in a form available to everyone,” Delaney commented.
“I agree, so what’s the best way to move forward?” Severin asked. “We know how to write magically but rarely do more than a page at a time. At that rate, it’ll take us years to finish.”
“We want no part of the Fae forgotten. Perhaps we can create spells to allow you to help Roriethiel and me write faster? We can manage an entire book on our own. It is not instant, but you can attend to other things as it pours your knowledge onto pages,” Drekkoril responded.
“I see no reason to believe that is an impossible task. In fact, it would aid us greatly,” Vadimas said.
“Yes, it would allow us to create books with Council knowledge too. We could add classes for sorcerers to read magically as we learned to do on the Fae realm in addition to writing at a greater volume,” Liam Porfyra-Dewitt, Vadimas’s father, added.
“Which you could teach,” Severin insisted.
“I would volunteer to do that. I think it could be a fundamental change in how we gain information and would enable us to educate students at a faster rate. It may have to be an advanced class, though; sorcerers with little magic will find it difficult if not impossible to master,” Liam remarked.
“Okay, so the first task is to learn a new spell that allows you to create books. Where do we start?” Chander asked.
“As you know, the Fae use no words for such things. In this case, we would locate the memories in our minds and give them a tug. Once that is done, we imagine a book and push those thoughts toward the creation of a new one. It requires more magic than you would think, since there must be enough to attach to, enabling anyone to read them,” Rorie said.
“Do you think it matters if it’s light or dark magic?” Idris asked.
“Like can a light sorcerer read painlessly from a dark tome and vice versa? I can tell you that although Fae magic differs vastly from ours, it did hurt to absorb the words from each book,” Chander answered.
“Then it would be smart to create two versions of each one,” Liam replied. “Or rely upon neutral sorcerers.”
