The Void would have thought of having been brought to Jambel but the landscape wasn't that of any city in the north he knew. From the windows, he could see trees and grass as far as the eye could see.
The house was near a lake where squirrels, deer, and many small critters drank or rested with no care for the seven-eyed flabbergasted stranger.
A sudden knock on the door made him turn around, conjuring his magic again.
"Lith, can I come in and talk?" Kamila asked through the solid and enchanted wood.
It took the Void a couple of seconds to realize that he actually was in the tower and two more to use the security system. Only after the Sentries reported him that he, Kamila, and Solus were the only people for kilometers did he open the door.
"Where are we? What is this place?" Fear and fury still painted his seven eyes white, but his voice was calm.
Even in his frenzied state, the Void didn't want to scare Kamila. Now that there was no enemy to fight, he just needed a few answers to be able to relax.
"Atop the closest mana geyser to the Flying Griffon resort, on the Rekar mountain range." Solus replied. "We picked it as our next vacation spot since you enjoyed your stay in the hotel with Kami, but you also wanted to be free to Warp away if something bad happened remember?"
"As for your second question, this is a surprise that we've been preparing for a while." Kamila said. "You always said that you like Baron Wyalon's house and that if you ever built one for us, you want to use it as a blueprint.
"Since you never had the time and I know how stingy you are, I asked Solus to help me. She can shapeshift the space inside the tower at will and I can make all the changes to the original I see fit without spending a dime."
Her words rang more than one bell. With the baby incoming, Lith wanted a place where he could be with the people he loved the most without being disturbed. The house in Lutia was always crowded and the Verhen Mansion was too ostentatious.
On top of that, once he hired the necessary house staff, he would have little privacy there. It was the reason he and Solus had started looking for a secluded mana geyser near Lochra Mountain.
It was a place surrounded by natural beauty where he had planned to build his dream house. Away from duty and enemies but just a Tower Warp from home.
Derek turned around, noticing that the room was indeed different from how he remembered it. It was a mix between Wyalon's guest house, his own bedroom in Lutia, the apartment from Belius, and even his private quarters in the tower.
The room had his desk and magic books to work on, Kamila's colorful drapes and her favorite landscape paintings, and all of his good memories depicted in holograms framed along the walls.
"Do you like it?" Kamila asked.
"Very. Why did you bring me here?" The Void toured the house, being surprised from how well she had remembered all of his ideas about how to alter the Baron's house.
There were even the first two Orichalcum hammers he had crafted with Solus, crossed and hung above the fireplace with their first dimensional pebble between them.
"Because you needed to calm down and we need to talk." Kamila had rarely said those words before and they never bode well.
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