Friday afternoon would be fine. I look forward to the challenge of circumventing that form. Honestly. You hardly need bureaucratic intrusions on top of the general nosiness of extended families, friends, colleagues, and the vulture press masquerading as the 'the public interest'.
Irma popped in here last evening--which is only one of the reasons I'm writing you this morning instead of last night, but that's a wholly other tale--and we got to talking over the marital mysteries of the castle (as you do). She's been reading further in the early correspondence archives, attempting to follow up that line in GG's letter to SS agreeing something about their instructions to the stone cutters and the rune carver. She's surer than ever there was an explicit bias against marriage woven in at the foundations. One wonders whether they conferred with RR and HH on this point or whether this particular business was a gentlewizards' agreement worked without the women's input. Irma hasn't yet found anything in HH's archive to document her contributions to the warding, but she says she has no doubt that House tradition is correct on that point.
In any case, Irma's found another three or four references in SS's or GG's hand, none of them robustly explicit, however, and she's not turned up anything like a complete description of the foundational magic. I suspect she's quite right that it was never committed to parchment. And, of course, we know that the castle's magic has been modified over the years--sometimes deliberately rewoven or overwritten, and sometimes merely jiggered, bolloxed, or patched.
We hit on an hypothesis last night that married couples cohabiting here may produce something like an allergic reaction in the castle's blanket magic.
You'll understand how that metaphor occurred to us, of course, and it may or may not be a helpful way of framing an explanation (or for anticipating what you may experience once you and Rabastan have changed your status).
And, honestly, it may be that we're fussing for no reason and that there will be no particular difficulty with your settling in here after you marry. After all, we saw for ourselves that there were periods when whole families lived in for years, so I should like to think that this old pile of stones is spun round with magic flexible enough to accommodate such things.
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Date: 2012-10-18 04:56 pm (UTC)Irma popped in here last evening--which is only one of the reasons I'm writing you this morning instead of last night, but that's a wholly other tale--and we got to talking over the marital mysteries of the castle (as you do). She's been reading further in the early correspondence archives, attempting to follow up that line in GG's letter to SS agreeing something about their instructions to the stone cutters and the rune carver. She's surer than ever there was an explicit bias against marriage woven in at the foundations. One wonders whether they conferred with RR and HH on this point or whether this particular business was a gentlewizards' agreement worked without the women's input. Irma hasn't yet found anything in HH's archive to document her contributions to the warding, but she says she has no doubt that House tradition is correct on that point.
In any case, Irma's found another three or four references in SS's or GG's hand, none of them robustly explicit, however, and she's not turned up anything like a complete description of the foundational magic. I suspect she's quite right that it was never committed to parchment. And, of course, we know that the castle's magic has been modified over the years--sometimes deliberately rewoven or overwritten, and sometimes merely jiggered, bolloxed, or patched.
We hit on an hypothesis last night that married couples cohabiting here may produce something like an allergic reaction in the castle's blanket magic.
You'll understand how that metaphor occurred to us, of course, and it may or may not be a helpful way of framing an explanation (or for anticipating what you may experience once you and Rabastan have changed your status).
And, honestly, it may be that we're fussing for no reason and that there will be no particular difficulty with your settling in here after you marry. After all, we saw for ourselves that there were periods when whole families lived in for years, so I should like to think that this old pile of stones is spun round with magic flexible enough to accommodate such things.