My eyes were stuck on the thing I had created. It was a crown. A crown made of lesser landstones, green jade in this case. These landstones did not count as crystals because they were subject to another stone. Still, I had taken the free landstones of a lake with several small islands and made a crown. There was a cumulative knowledge enchantment on it. And it was bound to the lake.

Just sitting here with my newest creation in my hands I could feel a weak, gentle pull towards that lake.

In game something like this never happened. There were no cumulative knowledge enchantments. And nobody could actually do anything with a landstone. You could just live there, allow others in and use the resources. Making an artifact bound to the land was not possible.

The little lake was not that special aside from the fact that it was really pretty, so I had no desire to live there. I got a feeling like I ought to, but then Aurelie had had a feeling like she should go and live on the other island, the dark elven one. Honestly, leaving my cushy quarters and my crafting equipment? This traveling to another world might have made me a bit restless, but I had never been a country side kind of girl.

Aurelie had never been one to enjoy being among uneducated, arrogant brutes like those dark elven tribes either. Plus we'd have to separate if we did do those things and...no. Just no.

What to do with this crown though? I felt like making one before, but now it seemed kind of silly.

I had a lot of silly inventions and creations, of course. Though it felt somewhat wrong, probably because I made it using landstones, I threw it into my assorted goods drawer. It was not really a drawer, of course, it was a space pocket, but since it was one of many such cupboards in my workshop and contained nonsensical but not entirely useless stuff I called it my assorted goods drawer.

As soon as the crown had disappeared in the space pocket the tugging stopped.

Good.

Satisfied with myself I pulled the crown I had put on my head for whatever reason out of my hair. It kept stinging in my scalp because I wasn't used to the needles that were supposed to keep it from falling off. It wouldn't budge at first, probably becausecI had wedged it in like the noob I was, but when I loosened the Braid around my head I managed to untangle it.

Crowns were kind of uncomfortable, really.

Once I had gotten rid of the thing I grabbed my sewing kit that had not been used for years, several bolts of soft satin cloth and silk thread, a pillow and my favorite music crystal. Thus armed for a battle called sewing I invaded the enemy's stronghold.

Aka I went to Aurelie's chamber to force her into an evening of sewing nightgowns and underwear.

Traipsing down the stone stairs I saw a lot of servants hurrying here and there. My arms were getting kind of heavy from carrying the cloth, too. I could have used a space bag, but that wouldn't reduce the weight at all. So when I saw a familiar face I jumped at the opportunity. This was surely a strong little girl!

"Wait! Help me with these, please?" I called out to her without hesitation, since helping two queens was probably a more cushy job than whatever else she might have to do.

The girl, the one from the first night, stopped immediately to do this strange not quite kneeling thing the servants serving food at the conference had done. I was pretty sure that Guardian was behind that one. As long as nobody wore maids clothing with mini skirts and revealing necklines it should be fine to let him play around a bit.