Private Wake Up Slap

Alby had been out and about, not really going anywhere in particular. He was on the hunt for signs, evidence, or anything at all that he could link to activity from the veil. So far he had nothing, the only things out of the ordinary were still rather tame. A weird wildflower, a ship missing its arrival time, two minotaurs having a verbal fight about the whole magic death theory.

With next to no sleep under his belt, it was only a matter of time before he gave in. Eventually he took a seat on a bench to write some notes, and that's when it happened. The boy fell right asleep. His book slid off and on to the ground, sitting open on a page with a weird diagram depicting Manta Carlos being separated from a circle titled current dimension and moved to another section titled new dimension.He plopped on to his side on the bench, but never woke up. He was out cold.

@Saber

After more shaking than it should’ve taken, Alby’s eyes slowly pried open. “Eein?” He blinked a few times, not totally registering the situation. “Where are we?” The small bench nap had done little to get rid of the bags under his eyes and it was obvious he was still tired.

Looking around, Alby slowly remembered what he was doing.He still didn’t remember when Eein had gotten there though. “When did you get here?”

"I didn't choose to fall asleep here." A yawn escaped him. "I just dozed off I suppose... Oh, where's my-" Alby seemed to panic for a split second before locating his journal next to him and quickly snatching it up. "Phew."

"Sleeping meds might not be a bad idea." He chuckled at the accusation that he was hanging out with a lover. "No, there's just been a lot on my mind lately. Too many loose ends, ya know? And it's making it hard to sleep when I got all these thoughts running wild in my head." He gave his noggin a light tap.

“It’s the death of magic theory, have you heard about any of that?” Alby wiped his hand across his face in an attempt to wake himself up. “I can’t stop thinking of how that works and the consequences of it.”

He was still drowsy and wasn’t totally thinking through everything that he said. But boy did he have a lot on his mind. “And then the veil is supposedly gonna rip us out of this dimension or something and place us in a fold between worlds, you know, so magic doesn’t die. But I still don’t totally get what that means, and I don’t have a single lead on the veil’s whereabouts or anything.” Alby spoke a tad quickly.

“I’ve thought it over a fair bit. I think that breaking the veil would probably be possible if it were done correctly. Like you said, over a long period of time. Could start with meta humans and slowly work in everything else.” He’d pause for a moment. “But I don’t know if it’d really be necessary for preserving magic. The other veil said that when they remove the island from this dimension and place it elsewhere, the death of magic will end. I’m just concerned because they said that and then disappeared.”