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[Caelum]

A funny smile was on Caelum’s mouth as Kavala spoke and eventually it firmed into something at once easy and profound. It was the sort of smile that was rooted in the soul, the visible gesture but the surface of a greater depth of emotion. “Fair enough,” he said quietly, but all of the gratitude was communicated by that smile. It had a hearth fire glow and Kavala herself had sparked it, preparing the tinder in preparation for the flame. It would linger for a long while and already had begun to suffuse its surroundings. The real estate that was already becoming a place named Alements in Caelum’s mind was soaking up every bit of generosity and sun fire, care and excitement and gratitude they were emanating. What they would build here would be colored by this beginning, and it was a good hue. Eventually, Caelum dropped his eyes from Kavala’s down to the infant he held. He spiked an eyebrow to find Ia’del peering back at him and dabbed a finger lightly to the tip of her nose before turning for the corner. “Let’s spread a blanket,” he said and curved an amble around where Larik gulped down his rats and preened. The bird was shot a smirk and Caelum settled the baby beside her much larger brother on the blanket before palming one of the pieces of chalk and getting to work. On his hands and knees, Caelum sketched an outline of where he wanted the bar to be and how it should curve along the back wall. Circles were used to show where he wanted basins set in the stone behind the bar as well. He told the twins with words and broad gestures the rough measurements of the windows that were to spread the entire front wall and half the side, floor to the ceiling, and meanwhile he measured out a pass through window on the wall behind the bar to the kitchen. It was long and narrow and low, the intention not being to provide a view into the kitchen but rather a shelf for plates and glassware to settle. The dominant feature behind the bar would be a mirror, he determined, or perhaps something in tin or decorative tile. It would depend on what he found at the Warren. But out from that he measured and sketched where shelves would be, climbing up the walls and interspersed by recessed, natural stone pots in the walls for herbs and plants. That in mind, he proceeded to mark out where along the walls he wanted more of the living shelves, near tables and sitting areas. He even used the chalk to write the name of what type of plant he might want to place there, not purely for decorative effect, but also for scent and growth in and out of sun and shade. By the time he was finished, he had chalk dust all over his hands and fiercely focused look in his eyes. “I’m going to pay for the patio and dock space,” he announced, “And then head to the Warren. Any of you want to come with me?”

[Kavala]

In the end, they opted to all go, because after all they were a family and this was a family expansion. The children helped carry packages or were carried themselves while Caelum shopped and Kavala lookd on amused. They'd get plenty of work done when they got back and spread the blanket like Caelum had suggested so the children could nap. They had the purchases they couldn't carry delivered to Caelum's new business address, and Kavala got down to some sketches and helped Caelum decide what kind of windows they wanted.

With Kavala's reimancy, she reached out, coated the walls with res, and sank it deep into the depths. She started at the front walls facing the waterfront and sank the res so deep the stonesong echoed in her brain before she actually got to work. Then, transmuting the stone to air and whisking it away with a little infused will, Kavala opened up big spaces for windows in the front. So while Caelum chalked out some of his plans on the stone walls, Kavala filled the spaces with more res, and visualized the properties of quartz, thin but strong, filling the spaces. She wrought the designs like an artist, filling in what would have been Alement's very expensive windows with gemstone instead, thin enough to flood the place with light and air, but thick enough to provide protection from the outside. She made the designs in Syna and Leth's honor, making one big panel a sun shining down on a semblance of Riverfall the city, streaks of orange and red and yellow and white rays blanketing the scene. Then she added in the city in glimmering white with its domed buildings hinted at in the artestry of the window. T

The waterfall she added afterwards, a glorious spill of sapphire stone falling off into a semblance of the ocean outside their vantage. All of it was see-through if the light was right, though the colors and distortions of the gemstone made it an unclear view.

In the other large window she created an identical scene out of stone, only she changed the colors to blues and purples representing the night and adding in a moon for Leth where Syna's light shone on the first panel. Moonlight beams in white and pale blue and pale purple shown down, glittering with mica which gave it a gleam that was hard to reproduce. She had to concentrate hard on making the mica, for it was small, shimmery, and fragile. Then the city was darker below, in the darkness of the scene, more sinister in some ways. But when she was down, Kavala stepped back, Caelum's new windows singing to her still as the magic coursed through her blood. It was almost too much because she wanted to join in the song and so she retreated, checking her children, and making sure that the host approved.

It was then they called it a day. There was time to work, time to plan, and they'd get everything done in time for Alement's opening. It reassured Kavala that Caelum had a project and someplace to anchor him. The Sanctuary wasn't truly his like it was hers. And with Alements here, he'd surely make a home... at least for a while.

[Matthew]

Caelum

Experience Points:

• +2 Architecture
• +2 Childcare
• +1 Drawing
• +1 Interior Design
• +1 Organization
• +2 Planning
• +1 Writing

Lores:

• Architecture: How to Test for Proper Ventilation
• Basic Appraisal of Structure Condition
• Basics of Redesigning a Basic Building
• Drawing: Sketching a Simple Blueprint
• Planning: How to Research for a Big Purchase

Kavala

Experience Points:

• +3 Architecture
• +2 Childcare
• +2 Interior Design
• +2 Investigation

Lores:

• Architecture: How to Test for Proper Ventilation
• Basic Appraisal of Structure Condition
• Basics of Redesigning a Basic Building
• Lore for Caelum's Sign Language
• Reimancy: Creating Gemstone Glass

Additional Notes :

I felt it would be appropriate and perhaps one day useful to have a Lore that showed Kavala's understanding of what Caelum means whenever he uses his own special brand of hand signals. I wasn't sure how to word it without making it sound like sarcasm or a joke, so I thought I'd leave the name up to you, if you even want to add it to the CS. Anyways, this was well done. I enjoy the slice of life threads that show such a simple and touching way of two friends bonding.

If you have any questions or concerns relevant to your grade, don't be afraid to send me a private message so that we can work it all out! Please remember to mark your Grading Request as Graded.

A shout-out to Ollic Rimesage, who was kind enough to make this template for me.