Nothing new to report about the Solar Energy battery, it is growing exactly as I expected.

Willow, the Ents, and a Hobgoblin Par recommended are going to check out a recently discovered dungeon about a day away from here. The Hobgoblin was apparently trained by Par, and though he isn’t as strong as Par he is much more durable. Par didn’t go because he wanted to stay with the soon to be the mother of his children. Everything should be fine, Mest is going with them as both a fail-safe and to take some notes on the recently discovered dungeon, so even if everything goes wrong no one will die. We have enough competent healers here that even if only half of them returns we can still save them, as long as they are alive of course. On top of that, the Ents could probably regenerate themselves from much less than that.

I was talking to Tiddol today, our usual banter, when I noticed something odd. Her mana would periodically drain rapidly, before refilling and draining again. All that mana went to the two children and every time it happened it seemed to make Tiddol very uncomfortable, if not downright painful. So naturally, I offered her my help with that. I have both a much higher mana pool and a much higher mana regeneration than her, so it shouldn’t be too much of a burden.

After she said that she would accept any help I could give I got to work figuring out exactly how I would give my mana to her. It was more difficult than it seems, I can’t exactly direct it to flow into her body, and even skin to skin contact doesn’t work, the mana just spills out into the ambient mana. Eventually, I did manage to figure it out, why don’t I use Astrie? I can modify it to move mana from a gemstone to me and vise versa, so why not from me to her?

As it was already something I pretty much knew how to do I succeeded on the first try, much to the obvious relief of Tiddol. There were two problems, however, the first being the sheer amount of mana I could give her, it wasn’t much, the second was the fact that holding hands all the time is awkward. After some brainstorming and trial and error, we managed to figure out a solution to both those problems.

I had Tiddol ride on my back. There was a bunch of Astrie connecting the two of us, more than enough to constantly transfer my entire production to her, which is much more than necessary. In order to actually carry her I made my armor boost my strength and my endurance, with that she’s light enough for me to carry around indefinitely.

Apparently, the twins have been siphoning off practically all of Tiddol’s mana since shortly after she knew she was pregnant. As I have never experienced it myself I have no idea how it feels, but It seems like a pretty miserable experience. Tiddol was very clear about how thankful she was, I had to tell her the constant ‘thank you’s was getting annoying for her to stop, though it might have to do with the fact that she fell asleep around the same time.

I guess for the first time in a while Tiddol and I will be sharing a bed.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.