Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_linus]

I hope it is not an imposition upon your schedule, but I shall be making forays into the realm of predictive Arithmancy this afternoon, and Professor Siz suggested before she left that you are among the most competent of those who might verify my maths, that being a matter of prudence at the moment. The problem upon which my energies will be bent is the possible pattern of resolution for the heightened and unpredictable magical energy flows following the recent Octoboros ward transfer work.

I will be running Scansell's sheaf analysis, Wrdjeman's patterning application, and Kantorowich's Least Worst regressions. At a minimum, really. One wishes to dig into something, and this is timely and pertinent and really ought to have the full attention of several of us right now.

Might you be available to receive parchments by house elf as they are completed?

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[alt_evelyn]

Oh, yes, please. I've got a rather satisfying stack of portkey adjustments to chew over, and it'll be lovely to shift gears now and again for pattern analysis.

It would be a kindness. Truly.

Thank you, Linus.

[alt_linus]

No, the gratitude is mine. Or perhaps we ought to divide it equally.

The elf should have delivered the first batch. I used Scansell's, as you no doubt immediately recognise. Shall proceed immediately to Wrdjeman's patterning application, though of course if you find errors in my work, notify me soonest so I can recalibrate.

The results of Scansell's do not look heartening for a swift abatement of magical energy levels in the ward system and the most strongly associated leys. Normal function does not resume within the projected short-term period.

In short, as Professor Siz sometimes permits me to say, everything is in flux and one can not yet tell one's ear from one's elbow. Which is an adequate summary of the moment, actually.

[alt_evelyn]

Interesting. Not surprising, though. So much build-up has to go somewhere.

I might try a few variations to test the range. Or we might think about practical applications -- channeling it someway into an energy grid, perhaps?

I'm so curious to see how the solstice will end up factoring in.

And well, then, consider it a good deed all round.

...Honestly, Linus, anything that'd help, anything at all, consider it done, whether it's checking your work, or anything else, truly.

[alt_linus]

Channeling it? Quite. Though if we could put it up in bottles for later, that would be ever so tidy, wouldn't it?


Wait. It would. Wouldn't it?

[alt_evelyn]

I suppose it's not entirely different from, say, nuclear energy. It's all energy, isn't it?

Batteries, is what you're thinking of.

[alt_linus]

Pardon. I was distracted for a bit. I've finished Wrdjeman's. It seems to indicate that either the subsidence to normal background magical energy levels should take approximately four months at which point we'll be facing a short-term under-supply of magic in the leys and other foci, including artificial foci such as Octoboros stones...

... or everything should be fine in about twenty days with no after-effects other than the odd light show now and then when certain spells are used near the stones....

... or we ought to be on the look-out for rains of small stones from a clear blue sky and the birth of improbable fauna. Honestly, I cannot make head or tail of it. I'll send it over with the elf. Surely I have bolluxed up something there?

[alt_evelyn]

The temporal component was a touch fiddly. I've re-worked the first few, see if that makes more sense?

[alt_linus]

Ah. Quite. Thank you.

I am once more awake, and shall be resuming work. Expect more parchment deliveries, if it is still convenient to receive them.