The Traveller

Chapter 55: Beloved Friends

KattraKnit flagged me down, and said lets co-write. No way I'd say no specially as they already had a bit ready to start

Summary:  A visit with an Old friend, and the conflicts of an eternal child not stuck with an eternal child mind

=Balance Castle Magic Lab=

Fresh404 sighed stroking a finger down the length of a woven cat sized Rainbow Lóng Dragon.
It was perfect every bone, organ, vestal, and scale woven of pure amendment magic. All it
lacked was a soul and the breath of life.

Arco-Iris watched unsure what to make of his big brother's latest project he had been so
focused on lately and for what it couldn't be more than an empty vessel they at the end of the
day even, they had limits. "Brother what are you making?"

Smiling Fresh404 waves Arco-Iris over, "come see my rainbow bru! I think it is almost done. As
for what it is, potential is what it is, and change. With a soul the body will slowly absorb magic
from its caretaker to transform from woven magic into a baby Lóng. A guardian dragon with the
potential to grow and change into what their partner caretaker needs. Kind of like your egg
hatched the little bru I needed."

Arco-Iris strokes the dragon's face and rainbow main, "it is beautiful, brother and a thoughtful
idea but souls and life are not in your magic or jurisdiction. How do you plan to accomplish it."
"I won't, our family will." Fresh404 grins, "Auntie Vita and Reaper have agreed to include it in the
cycle of rebirth and gave me a soul scroll. When crushed and the powder sprinkled over the
vessel it attracts a compatible soul ready for rebirth."

Arco-Iris blinks, taking it all in, "so is it going to be your companion?"

"No little bru, we have enough. We have a multiverse, and a big family to hold us up when
times are hard and we stumble." Fresh404 picks up a scroll and with a flick of the codes turns it
to jade so it will take some strength to crush then wraps to Lóng around it. "This is for Traveller,
you have been restless and having nightmares for some time now. I think your picking up
something that has been weighing on them."

Arco-Iris flutes up and hugs them, "thank you Fresh404 for caring about them even when so far
away."

Fresh404 wraps the whole bundle in a rainbow blanket woven with his strings, "of course little
bru they are family even if we can't keep them close and protected."

Arco-Iris sniffles and hurries to put the bundle in his inventory with a spark of magic marking it
for his other self.

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Hearth had been a bit thrilled to finally be on the road again as they said, Karma and Oneiro were off and about and it had been awhile since he wandered for wandering. And he did have a reason, he called it an errand but it was an visit to someone important.

It had been too long since he spoke to his tinier bitty self, he hoped little Arco-Iris was well. He tried to block him out to let them live there own life, but there latest... gift worried him.

He frowned at the gate to Fresh 404's multiverse, the magic there had gotten pretty deadly to him by the time he left and brough the egg.

"Right... what can I do here..." he hummed, he did want to see Iris and Fresh 404. He wished he could have introduced Karma to them, but his soulchild still randomly had nightmares of a normal 404.

What of a Phased area, a pocket space?

Hearth brightened at Celestials suggestion, and quickly got to work. To bad he didn't know how to make permanent ones yet, otherwise he'd move the island to it as it would be safer then the Between.