Petrova Garden - The old Willow
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Gladis
"Pretty Miss, I suppose you're right... I wouldn't want to inconvenience you, though, so I won't ask you to bring me to her. Either way, thank you for the offer, there'll probably be a lot of people at the infirmary soon, however... so I'll just stay here and wait until they've passed. When Lady Moselle is alone sounds like a good time to approach her."
Stella watched as the tree spirit laid down on the branch, not having to transport was pretty convenient, she gets her peace and quiet for free. Still, it would be nice if it were faster. But no use rushing things, patience is amongst the things Stella had.
She traced the tree spirit's gaze over to the now abandoned tea party, most of the people now scattered, but one of the witches was still there, along with what was probably her familiar. But they soon left towards the mansion.
"It's sad that something so many worked hard for is ruined now..."
Stella couldn't feel too much sadness towards the party however, its just a transient thing after all, that tea party could easily be set up with less then half a day's work. And torn down far faster, as displayed here.
"Wouldn't you agree, pretty miss?"
She looked back to the tree spirit, she hoped no confirmation would be necessary since they obviously disagreed. "
... Not in particular, its transient after all..." Her attention was then taken away by something underground, she looks towards the floor and focuses, soon she confirms, her star has increased volume by 10%, it started expanding sooner then she expected.
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Hmm... Its leaving the main sequence."
Stella stands up and looks at the Tree Spirit.
"
Excuse me, I have to go reset the core." With that said she jumps off the branch, but stops midway to the floor, floating weightlessly for a moment before soaring ahead, calculating with the fact most people left already, she quickly flies between the trees and bushes of the garden and over the warning-sign filled fence, heading down the 100 meters shaft. While resetting the core was not an urgent matter, she did not like any imperfections about her installation.
Underground installation - Core Facility
As soon as she completes the long drop she stops flying and gently touches the floor, walking quickly through the junction hall and into the turbine hall.
Unlike earlier, her familiars fill the structure, preparing the plant for a likely emergency shutdown.
Her familiars are small, red, fox like critters which use magic to manipulate items around them. While they aren't as good as Humans of the Human world, they do their work, they never complain and they only take 3 hours of rest a day. Of course they drain a considerable amount of magical power from Stella, but that is a minor inconvenience.
She climbs the scaffolding and navigates around several turbines and generators, reaching the ladder leading to the central shaft, she opens the first hatch, closes it, climbs up and repeats the process with the second shaft.
As she climbs out above her stands the same star from maybe fifteen minutes ago, however this star is somewhat different, far more orange then yellow and slightly larger, Stella sighs, she will need to replace it after all. Though she will spend some time here first to gauge how much time does this star have left. If its enough, she will mention that the power system will have to go offline first. If there is not enough, she will simply shut the plant down.
She once again lifts from the ground, this time far more slowly, and floats up until she is near the star, closing her eyes and focusing on the space around her...