:Clever!: Need says, with a flash of mingled approval and chagrin. :I wouldn't have thought of that.:
A careful examination would have revealed them. Since the nightrender hadn't been chasing anyone, and no one's clothing is so bright that it really stands out against the tent, and it doesn't hear anything, it has no reason to search the ground when there are targets everywhere. She keeps the shield up anyway as it heads off, because the energy cost for it is all in the setup. It's not visible and air passes through it without impediment, but with their contact and his own aptitude for magic Raistlin can still feel the shield's shape, its confines, how it's porous to most things.
They have a moment now, and her compulsion to stay low and quiet has passed. Need dips into the cook's mind, since she'd healed her before. The cook is sure that the fairies will protect her and her wife and child - as employees, the adults have got faintly glowing stamps that just aren't on their hands, and the baby is covered in the contract - but it's certainly true that one will have to actually be here to do so.
So that all three adults can hear her, Need says, :Children, your boy is at the well with the white flags with a sprained ankle. He's covered, but he's going to hurt himself more if he keeps trying to get to you. You'll be safer there.: She says something more to the cook alone, then. No one else gets any intimation of what it is, but her bearer might notice that when Need is talking to someone they look a bit glazed and distant.
Reluctantly and with a grinding edge of frustration, Need then tells Raistlin, :New problem. I'm starting to run low on magic and I can't draw more to replenish it. This has all been coming out of my personal reserve. If that gets below a point, pfft, I'm asleep. That will be very bad for you.: The enhancements she's keeping on him are hastily designed and constructed and burn a lot of energy, though less while he's not actually doing anything. If they get out of this and she makes a study of him, Need is confident of making a more efficient spell.
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A careful examination would have revealed them. Since the nightrender hadn't been chasing anyone, and no one's clothing is so bright that it really stands out against the tent, and it doesn't hear anything, it has no reason to search the ground when there are targets everywhere. She keeps the shield up anyway as it heads off, because the energy cost for it is all in the setup. It's not visible and air passes through it without impediment, but with their contact and his own aptitude for magic Raistlin can still feel the shield's shape, its confines, how it's porous to most things.
They have a moment now, and her compulsion to stay low and quiet has passed. Need dips into the cook's mind, since she'd healed her before. The cook is sure that the fairies will protect her and her wife and child - as employees, the adults have got faintly glowing stamps that just aren't on their hands, and the baby is covered in the contract - but it's certainly true that one will have to actually be here to do so.
So that all three adults can hear her, Need says, :Children, your boy is at the well with the white flags with a sprained ankle. He's covered, but he's going to hurt himself more if he keeps trying to get to you. You'll be safer there.: She says something more to the cook alone, then. No one else gets any intimation of what it is, but her bearer might notice that when Need is talking to someone they look a bit glazed and distant.
Reluctantly and with a grinding edge of frustration, Need then tells Raistlin, :New problem. I'm starting to run low on magic and I can't draw more to replenish it. This has all been coming out of my personal reserve. If that gets below a point, pfft, I'm asleep. That will be very bad for you.: The enhancements she's keeping on him are hastily designed and constructed and burn a lot of energy, though less while he's not actually doing anything. If they get out of this and she makes a study of him, Need is confident of making a more efficient spell.