Chapter 381: Teleportation_Millennial Mage

Chapter 381: Teleportation

 T felt fully rxed for the first time in days as she contemted existence and her ce in it.

 She knew a part of it was the setting. She was beside her infinite river, in a little dell, upon a stone that had been a part of her spoils of war.

 She recognized it as one that shed taken from a garden in the main hold of the House of the Rising Sun.

 It felt like victory to sit upon it, knowing that generations of arcanes had used it for their meditation, and now it was hers.

 -T?-

 T blinked a few times, opening her eyes to see the brightness of a new day creeping across the incredibly real-seeming false sky.

 -Breakfast time.-

 She grinned in response to her alternate interface. Thank you, t.

 With a flexing of her will, T moved to her dining area.

 She appeared standing beside the table,ing in just after Mistress Petra moved back to the kitchen.

 The woman, now well acquainted to Ts habits, simply smiled and gave a shallow bow, Good morning, Mistress T.

 T gave a nod in return, Good morning, Mistress Petra. How are you and the family doing today?

 Oh, excellent. Just excellent. We are so excited for our Annathasing home. Shes such a dear girl, youll just love her.

 Cant be the same person, then.

 -T she wasnt unkind to you. Just the opposite in fact.-

 T ignored t. Im sure I will.

 She sat in her chair, regarding the glorious spread before her, but before she took her first bite, she had a thought that soured the food just a bit. What if she wants to stay here?

 -I thought you didnt know her?- t pressed.

 I dont want another Mage in here. Not yet.

 -Um why not?-

 Because, we have plenty. They weaken the stability of reality in here.

 -T-

 I dont want any more people in here

 -What about the gateless? Brandon and Adrill? Artia?-

 Theyre fine.

 t sighed, but she didnt press further.

 T addressed Mistress Petra, Do you know what she ns on doing, now that shes graduating?

 Hmm? Oh, shell seek an apprenticeship, a master to be a mageling under and all that. Her talents lie in healing, as I understand it. Thoughmunication is limited, so I might not have the full picture. Even so, her penchant for healing is one reason shesing here. Healers always congregate around a waning, much like defenders do.

 -Oh! Mistress Vanga might be a good fit.-

 t

 -What? Dont we want to help out Mistress Petra and Master Simons daughter?-

 Defenders dont often take on magelings. Itplicates things.

 -But they do sometimes, especially if they have duties outside of their role as a defender, say as a healer.-

 Ill consider suggesting it.

 The woman continued on, and T listened closely, even as she turned to her meal, concern assuaged for the moment. Annathas would be with her master wherever that Mage was, not within Ts sanctum.

 Still, T wanted to be more interested in her friends and colleagues lives, so she chose to engage with Mistress Petra throughout her whole meal.

 The two of them chatted as T ate and Mistress Petra finished up in the kitchen.

 All in all, it was a pleasant way for T to break her nightly fast.

 -Its almost time.-

 Oh, alright. The receiving spellform is in ce and activated. T didnt really want to go, even if she had nned on being there.

 -I know, but dont you want to head there to see it with your own eyes?-

 I mean I can see it regardless? But sure. Lets go. It will be interesting to feel it with my aura as well.

 T stood to her feet, swallowing herst mouthful of food. Mistress Petra, shall we go?

 Oh! The older woman straightened, Is it time already?

 It seems so.

 She smiled, Then, yes. Lets go.

 T smiled in return, flexed her will. With no noticeable dy, they were both standing beside the receiving spellform.

 It was in a grove of massive trees, T remembered the arcanes meticulously moving them in to set up this location.

 It had been meant to be a meditation area for herself or Thron, but she didnt know if hed ever used it.

 She certainly hadnt.

 The center of the space was dominated by arge round stone, raised above the turf and interwoven roots.

 The silver of the ready-and-waiting receiving spellform glistened in the early morning light.

 T didnt take long to take in the sight, instead lifting her hand to hold it in front of her mouth. It already held the intra-sanctummunication stone, Master Simon, should I bring you and the children here to receive your daughter?

 His voice came back a momentter, Oh! Is it that time, already?

 T felt her mouth pull up in a half smile. It is indeed, Master Simon.

 Then, yes. Thank you.

 With another flex of her will, Master Simon, Segis, and Metti were all standing beside her.

 Segis held a wooden training sword that he had clearly been swinging about in y.

 Metti had a doll in each hand, her face scrunching up in disappointment. That passed quickly as she immediately turned to T. Please bring their new dresses too.

 T chuckled. She could, of course, see exactly what the little girl meant, and the two dolls dresses were on the ground beside Metti a momentter.

 Metti sat down and began to change them. Thank you, Mistress T. They will be dressed pretty for Annas arrival.

 The little girl had a truly supernatural sense of timingor she was incredibly luckybecause almost as soon as the dolls had been changedand she had politely had T return their unused clothes to the proper ceshe had stood back up, and the receiving scripts began to ignite.

 To Ts enhanced vision and ability to process what she saw, it was a truly fascinating sight.

 Her aura provided yet another level of insight, giving her a full picture into what was happening.

 Power shed through the entire spellform at once.

 T had to pause mentally and really conceptualize that.

 It wasnt like a sh powder that went up at once or all the water in a bucket came out at once when it was upended.

 No.

 At exactly the same instant, the entire spellform ignited, fully shaped, and properly formed, proportional, and alight with magic.

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 Barely a molecule thick of silver all activating at once, zing with power until they couldnt resist the pull of the magic, bing energy as well.

 Then, the newly increased power moved outward, like awork of expanding tubes, burning as they grew until the totality of the silver was ame with power.

 The entire process took less than an eyeblink, before the magics had consumed the spellworking and the effect was entirely enacted.

 Power punched starward without breaching all the way to the superficial. In fact, the breech didnt even reach as far as the next increment.

 The void.

 As expected, the magics reached into the void, but as she watched it, her aura felt something else, something familiar.

 The Doman-Imithe?

 -Maybe. Keep focused.-

 The entire space that had been upied by the spellform was filled with humanoid figures to Ts voidsight, only one of which was highlighted with power that was clearly from the receiving scripts.

 Beside that highlighting, the forms were indistinguishable.

 At least they were until they began to move.

 As T watched in a moment that seemed to extend for minutes, the figures around the central one tried to reach and grab onto the highlighted humanoid shape.

 The scrabbling fingers slid off of the magic of the receiving spellform, that central person not reacting in the slightest.

 Even so, they kept trying for the entire, extended moment.

 Finally, the moment passed, and a gatea human soulsuddenly seemed to snap into existence within the vaguely humanoid, magically highlighted shape.

 Huh I wonder what it would look like if a gateless teleported. It does work for them, right?

 -Yes, now focus! We can investigate other teleportster.-

 Tendrils of power immediately shot inward from the highlighting. The magic struck the gate before rebounding, having been altered by the interaction and filling in details, fleshing out the vague shape with a temte made of power.

 This was the greatest expense of teleportation, the generation of matter from magic based upon the temte of the persons soul.

 Most of the power came along with the transported. That high energy packet was what safeguarded the soul in transit before helping form the new vessel on the far end.

 As the details were added in, the other shapes faded, until thest one ceased to be visible, even with Ts enhanced perception.

 And rust me, the passenger apparently needs that protection.

 -Yeah. What the rust?-

 I know, right? Were those smilers?

 -Maybe? Or they were simply personified void based on our perception of how they act.-

 Yeah, but thats also our conundrum with the smilers

 -...right.-

 Slowly, a beautiful young woman came together, pieced together from power.

 She was actually about the same height as T, and perky; T could tell just by how she was standing.

 Her face was heart-shaped, and her eyes were sky blue.

 She was, of course, utterly bald.

 ssic Mages robes were built out around her out of power, clothing her in high quality fabric.

 Oh, wow! I did not consider that. T looked closer, allowing her perception to take in every part of the garments

 -Yeah, the clothing is constructed in the same way as the body. It is an idealized version of itself.-

 T and t could see that every thread in the weave was in perfect position. Every cut, every stitch, every part was precisely correct toward an ideal fit and finish.

 T had given up such a perfect set of clothes of her own in order to teleport naked, trying to maintain her inscriptions.

 In the end, shed gotten her hair back and kept her keystone.

 It seems that Annathas hadnt attempted any oddities in her own teleporation.

 -So You havent actually acknowledged it, but-

 T sighed internally, even as the spellform finished its work, and the seemingly eternal moment came to an end. Yeah I know her.

 The new arrival blinked a few times, looking around as her eyes adjusted to the bright light.

 Odd, I know that the teleportation room is bright on the other end, and here isnt exactly under a midday sun did her eyes somehow adjust to the void?

 -That doesnt make sense, but then youre just hunting for reasons to not acknowledge the fact that you were wrong and-

 T? AnnathasAnnatilted her head to one side. T, is that you?

 T sighed.and like I said, I know the girl whos just teleported into my sanctum?

 -Yeah. That.-

 Id hoped that it was someone with the same name

 -Who was the same age?-

 I never did get herst name there was hope.

 The girls face blossomed into a bright smile. T! You came to greet me? I knew we were friends. I just knew it. She practically flounced forward. And here people told me that you were avoiding me while we were at the Academy. Were you just too shy?

 She seemed to notice her parents and siblings then, not noticing their shocked expressions.

 Oh! Everyone came! Well, not Hannah, but thats expected, and of course, I left Karsa at the Academy. Im sorry I cant give you more information on her, she mainly wanted to form new rtionships, and didnt want her big sis getting in the way. She smiled, making a happy sound as she shrugged before giving a round of hugs, ending with T. So! Whats new everyone? Oh, wow. Have you been working out T? You feel like a rock. It suits you.

 T had epted the hug purely on reflex and was now regretting so, so many things.

 Then, Anna looked around, seeming confused. I do apologize, and I dont mean to be rude, but I dont see Mistress Kit anywhere. I want to pay my proper respects to the owner of this wondrous ce you mentioned. Are we really in a dimensionally expanded space? Thats amazing! She grinned back toward T. Then we can catch up. Im sure youve been up to all sorts of mischief.

 Mistress Kit?

 t had devolved into uncontrolledughter within Ts head.

 It was distracting.

 Master Simon stepped forward, clearly trying to piece together what was happening. Anna, honey, why do you think that there is a Mistress Kit here?

 Anna nodded toward her dad, clearly feeling that she understood where the confusiony, Hmm? Oh! Well, you said that you were working within Kits sanctum, and that Kit and T, here, were connected. She looked back to T. I was excited that Id get to see you again. Especially after Karsa said shed met you. That girl refused to tell me more, too. Anyways, I figured Id have to hunt you down, just like old times. Turning back to her father, she continued, It really is wonderful that youre on a first name basis with your employer, but I need to show proper respect to Mistress Kit, at least until I get to know her.

 Anna sighed, practically bouncing as she turned toward her mother.

 And its so wonderful that you two treat T with such respect, calling her Mistress T and all, but Ive known her just for ages, so Im just going to keep right on calling her T.

 There was a long pause, before Segis beganughing, moving to sit on one of the surrounding stones, nearer the ring of trees.

 Metti giggled to one side as well.

 Anna refocused on her sister, choosing to ignore her brother. Now, you brought two friends with you, didnt you? I havent met these two, yet.

 Metti nodded, holding up her dolls.

 What pretty dresses they have!

 Master Simon red-faced with embarrassmentcame over and whispered to T. Mistress T, I am so sorry. I had no idea you knew her at the Academy. Communications back and forth are all but impossible. When wemunicated to herand the Academyabout how to execute this teleport, we conveyed some of the situation here, buthe looked genuinely at a lossThings must have not been clear.

 T sighed and waved him off. Its fine, Master Simon. I recognized her name, but thought it might be someone else.

 So, you were friends at the Academy? he asked, interestedly. He also seemed both surprised and skeptical at the idea.

 Honestly, he had good reason to be skeptical, given what hed seen of her over the time theyd known one another.

 Truthfully, T almost responded with a categorical No but hesitated at thest moment.

 Anna had tried to be kind to her, inviting her to things, sitting beside her in some sses, asking if she wanted to sit with her and her friends at meals.

 T had always said no.

 Shed left their shared sses quickly whenever possible.

 Well, shed left all sses quickly whenever possible, but that wasnt the point.

 Generally speaking, T had rebuffed Anna at every turn, without ever doing so explicitly.

 Shed also never actually been rude or mean to the younger girl

 Anna had simply continued to be kind and treat T as if they were already friends throughout.

 The end result was that T got very good at avoiding the other young woman, which wasnt too hard given she was a year behind T, and there were very few sses that they even could have together.

 Plus, their free periods werent aligned, and they were housed in different sections of the Academy.

 She nodded to herself, choosing her words carefully as she responded to Master Simon, She was always kind to me, but we never spent too much time together.

 Anna turned from her conversation with Metti to interject, Tthe dearisnt much of what we would call a people person, but shes got a good heart. Im d you know her already.

 Without waiting for a reply, she turned back to her little sister, squatting down just enough to not loom over her sister who was less than a third her age.

 In fact, they werent that different in height to begin with.

 Wait Anna would have gone to the Academy before Metti was born.

 -Yeah, the Zats mentioned a few times that they had arranged for Anna toe home three times over the years, likely at great expense. So, they arent strangers, but they dont really know each other.-

 Huh

 Master Simon was smiling, seemingly despite himself.

 He spoke incredibly quietly, using his knowledge of Ts senses to keep Anna from overhearing. Anna was always so outgoing. She made friends so easily and loved sopletely. Even if you werent friends at the Academy from your side, I dont doubt that she saw you as her friend. I also dont doubt that she wouldnt be saying this if you had been mean or cruel to her, or to others. He fully faced T, bowing. Thank you.

 That caught Annas attention, and she straightened, a contemtive look on her face. I do seem to be missing something. Is Mistress Kit noting?

 T felt herself smiling despite herselfwhich happened a lot with Anna, it seemed, Kit is the name of my dimensional storage. Shes sapient, or at least sentient, and she is bound to me.

 Anna blinked a few times, clearly processing.

 T decided to continue, getting it all out in the open before any further awkwardness could build up, So this is my sanctum. Your parents work with me. She couldnt bring herself to say that Annas parents worked for her, even though it was true. It felt too much like bragging, or boasting or something.

 After a long moments thought, Anna only uttered a single word in response, Huh.

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Chapter 381: Teleportation