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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boddynock" data-source="post: 3420463" data-attributes="member: 21506">Kel frowns. By now the group can recognize that as a sign that he's worrying at the problem."Nhalia, do you have some way of determining if this gem is magical? Maybe Elenia didn't give us a magical gem. Maybe she's using her knowledge of these gems to locate us. They are very distinctive. Perhaps her confusion arose from scrying on the wrong gem - and picking up the jeweller's conversation, rather than ours.""If the gem itself is not magical, then there's nothing further we can do with regard to it. We'll have to wait for her to make the running. If it is magical, then it will repay further experimentation.""Research in the Academy library still seems to be a useful idea, if only we can afford it. And I want to learn to be a wizard ... so maybe there's a way to combine those two goals."Here Kel's frown deepens, and he shakes his head irritably. "But if I were taken on by the Academy, and they limited my time and my access to the city, then I wouldn't be able to keep my date with ... I mean, I wouldn't be able to attend the Princess' pleasure ... I mean, I couldn't wait for her to turn up at the meeting place."The young man's words stumble to a halt, as a blush rises in his face.</blockquote>