"Dormitory" 513: Reuna Laurént's Office

Professor Echoes opens the door to Reuna's room. He enters in his hands is a black forest cake, which he reverently places on an empty chair. This done he reaches into his left pocket, pulling out a silver marble. Next he bring his right hand up to his chest, palm facing the ceiling. He drops the marble onto his waiting hand. The marble comes to rest about an inch above his palm, and he moves his left hand over it palm facing down.

Slowly Echoes moves his palms away from eachother. As his hands move the marble begins to grow. Once the silver sphere is roughly the size of his head, he smiles and makes a throwing gesture. The sphere floats to a foot below the ceiling, in the center of the room. A blue flash of light fills the room, emanating from the sphere.

Echoes makes a gesture, and a 3d projection of the room appears floating in the air. The projection is rendered in different shades of blue, except the sapphire which is green, and the door which is red. Echoes points at the door, the rest of the projection fades aways. He gestures, the image of the door increases in size, another gesture, a series of runes appear floating next to it.

"Oh! This will be very well done."

Echoes grins excitedly at what he is seeing. He then reaches into the projection of the runes, and he begins drawing new ones with his hands. After several minutes Echoes frowns at what he has done. Tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth, he makes another gesture. The image of the door pulses red once, twice, then turns blue. Echoes smiles triumphantly, before declaring to the room.

"When is Reuna's where you need her?"

Echoes stares blankly at Reuna for a long moment. The look on his face is one of bafflement, and he sticks out his tongue, furiously concentrating. He points at the light construct of the door, still floating in the room.

"Your portal will, does, did, create an instability within the schools defensive ward network as a whole. Not your fault, the spell is well crafted, but the defensive ward network is fourth dimensional. The intricacies of the ward network require careful study. At least if you wish to create a stable portal without issue."

Throughout this Echoes kept his hand pointing at the facsimile of the door. He looks at the digit curiously, falling into a long silence.

"OH! Right, this spell construct will, with your permission, overlay the one you have already created. Once this happens the potential, current, exploited, breach will be closed. Also I believe I brought a cake! To celebrate something..."

He starts spinning around the room, finger still extended looking for the cake.

"Thank you."

Echoes makes a gesture, and the replica of the door overlays the real one. There is a subtle shift in the magics around the door. A resonant humming fills the room, as though something just clicked in place. He makes a beckoning gesture to the silver sphere, it remains floating in mid air. Echoes frowns at the sphere. He walks underneath jumping up trying to grab it. The sphere darts out of his grasp. He tries again this time he gets both hands around it. The sphere however continues to float, and he dangles under it for a moment before loosing his grip. The professor falls to the ground landing in a heap, the sphere bobs merrily. Echoes sits up and glares at the sphere, before getting to his feet. He notices that Reuna has located the cake.

"You found a different cake excellent. Though I wonder what happened to the one I brought?" It looked remarkably similar to the one you found. The cake is one of the things we are celebrating. This is the first time I try this recipe, it is one of my favorites. Also if I remember correctly, this is the first time I have offered you cake. Which means we are also celebrating you getting hired. Finally we are, of course, celebrating the fact that we have cake!"

Echoes shoots another glare the sphere.

"That is a complex fourth dimensional spell, forced into a three dimensional space. It will act as a conduit between three, fourth dimensional constructs. Once contains the library, the other the rest of the academy, and the last is spread across the entirety of Gauldin. Unfortunately such spells are, by necessity, sentient. This one is acting like it is new, so it is acting like a child."

The shining silver orb begins to spin in mid air. If Reuna looks closely she would see it does not reflect her room. Rather images from all around the academy play across its surface. Echoes accepts his slice of cake, and begins devouring it with gusto.

"Yes a toast, to whatever it is we will be celebrating."

"A wise woman will tell me, that I should never turn my hobby into my profession."

Echoes grins and nods, it is hard to tell if he actually got the joke. Hi cake is long gone, the evidence of where it went is apparent. The silver sphere bumps against his head. He ignores it for a moment and it circles around, when it is almost in front of him he lunges! However he hits the floor as the sphere darts away.

"You're welcome. Though I should point out, I already knew we were friends when you met me. I should also thank you. I have so rarely met people so tolerant of the eccentricities of time mages."

Echoes nods at Reuna's words, his normal slightly perplexed smile, has turned to a slight frown. The silver sphere moves to bob in the air around Reuna's head. Echoes gets back to his feet and he says with great solemnity.

"If I remember correctly when things got dour..."

Echoes trails off thoughtfully, moving over to the cake and preparing two more slices.

"...the solution was indeed more cake."

He offers her another slice, his grin once again in place.

Echoes second slice of cake lasts roughly as long as the first. He waves off Reuna's apology.

"No need to apologize, I am no stranger to sadness. The best people I knew never let their sadness rule them. They would accept, let it add definition, but never did they let it rule them."

The time mages smiles turns soft, fond, clearly he is remembering something that happened, or something that will happen.

"Anyway I offered to answer any question you might have, before I left."

The silver orbs finally moves to Echoes hands. He places one hand on top, the other on the bottom, and he moves his hands towards each other. The orb shrinks once again becoming the size of a marble. Pocketing the sentient spell, he gives Reuna a smile.

"The social visit did not prove to be a problem! You will next see me when you have settled, my friend."

Then just like he did before, Echoes vanishes.

Echoes pops into existence within Reuna's dorm room, the silver sphere already floating and large.

"Hello Reuna!"

Echoes chirps cheerfully, the silver sphere responds to a gesture and floats over to the sapphire. A blue plane of light emits from it sweeping across sapphire, up, down, up again. A complete fourth dimensional scan of the sapphires physical and magical properties, in every state they have ever existed. Echoes rubs his hands in glee.