strictly professional

[luminous_regnant]

Golden consults her Imperial Minister of Temporal Affairs about when to visit Eights. She asks Jane to check in with Eights to confirm this time - dropping by uninvited even at the best time to do so is not a habit she wishes to cultivate unnecessarily, and might get them off to a bad start.

Presuming acquiescence, she appears in Eights's house at the appointed time.

Comments

[lookingforwardtoit]

She blinks twice, decoding this.

"You mean, can I let you hurt me without either minding or wanting to have sex with you? Yeah, sure."

[luminous_regnant]

"What sort of compensation would be in order?" asks Golden. "We are estimating that it will take about a day for us to collectively achieve the results we have in mind - we're going to be enchanting an instance of Saturn."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Pff," says Eights. "A day? Not a long-term thing? I'll do it for free."

[luminous_regnant]

"Well, it's always possible I'll want something else enchanted, but in that case I expect to get someone else to perform the spell in its entirety. The reason I want to do a day's worth of enchanting at all is because there's a side effect called aura that comes of doing enough of it. The day is a guess; it took the original enchantress Bell a few years of less continuous enchanting to achieve hers. And this is a full day - twenty-four hours. None of us sleep when we don't want to. I don't sleep at all. At any rate. Do you have schedule constraints I should be aware of?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Nope."

[luminous_regnant]

"All right. I'll let you know through Jane when we've got architectural plans for Origin Saturn and a date set."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Sure," she says agreeably.

[luminous_regnant]

"Later, then," says Golden, and she taps her Jane-gem and she's gone.