Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

The werewolf looked over the plan that Wolfe had drawn on the ground and shook his head. He picked up another stick and changed the chambers on the riverside and then introduced a spiral on the route up to the surface by the airstrip.

"That will keep the changing river level from messing with the chambers inside while still letting us unload the boats efficiently, and the spiral lets us fight without having to worry about ranged weapons if the den is discovered." He explained.

Then he looked it over again and expanded the drawings of the bedrooms.

"I think that a lot of the workers would prefer to just stay here instead of working in short shifts like the border guards do. So, they will want family suites and a small garden of their own." He explained.

The Pilot nodded along in agreement, and Wolfe realized that he was talking about them in particular, with an understanding of group dynamics among the locals that Wolfe lacked.

The Witches would likely want to switch out every week or two so that they could access the Library and all the amenities of the Den, but the residents of the Wastes had no such expectations, even after living in Forest Grove for a while.

"Ladies, do you think that you can manage that design?" Wolfe asked.

Ella and Cassis smirked at each other while Priya openly laughed at him. 

"Who do you think we are? We could do that individually without going down to look at it. We've already checked, and the ground is clear and solid, so we should be able to create that in a matter of seconds, including furniture, but you will have to go down to finish the rest of the enchantments for comfort." Priya gloated.

"That shouldn't be an issue. Is there anything that you two would like? I can sense that you would like to remain here by the airstrip in the future." Wolfe asked.

"Well, we're expecting pups soon, so can you make a nursery area? There are a lot in the city, but none of them are all fancy and magical like the basic furniture." Darius requested.

That was an oversight on Wolfe's part. He hadn't made any new furniture for small children at all.

"I think that I can manage that. I remember the bassinets that the kids back in the Fortress City liked best, and I can enhance them with magic once Cassie makes them. I'm sure you know the one that I mean. It's from your grandmother's house."

Cassie smiled and nodded. "Let's head down to the new sleeping quarters, and we can get everything set up properly."

Wolfe decided that this location needed a different theme than Forest Grove, a change of pace for those who were only staying here temporarily to make the days feel less monotonous. So, he went all out on the spells to disguise the walls. 

Here, the structure was given the appearance of adobe walls with stainless steel hardware and black granite floors. The tables and dressers were white oak with black granite tops, and the curtains that slid across the doorways for a modicum of privacy while still allowing ventilation were white linen.

Of course, it was all fake, just an exterior appearance using elemental magic, but the Werewolf laughed as he walked inside.

"Did we get transported to the middle of the desert somewhere? I've seen houses like this near the coast." He chuckled.

"I thought that a little change of pace might be nice. You know, so that visitors know where they are and feel a bit like they're on vacation while they're here. I can even have the ladies make you all a beach on a lower level where it is tropically warm all the time." Wolfe suggested.

"Stop teasing them, and let's go set up some kids' rooms in here. I say we do one and then make a half dozen more of the bassinets for other kids who might be coming here. The rest can be done as everyone arrives." Cassie insisted.

She had the small beds finished in seconds, and Wolfe added the layers of wind magic to make them supremely comfortable at all times, along with a charm that would make them gently sway when they were occupied, triggered by motion inside the bed.

Wolfe briefly wished they'd brought Stephanie, as she was the right size to put in the infant bed to show how it worked, but it could also be manually rocked by a parent on the outside. 

"The beds are always so comfortable here. It's been a month, and I'm still not used to being so comfortable. I worry that our kids will grow up soft." The werewolf laughed, earning himself a swat on the arm from his wife.

"Just train the kids harder to make up for it. The soft bed feels even better when you're exhausted." Wolfe suggested.

Priya gave Wolfe a skeptical look. "And what do you know about being exhausted? I've never seen you do an honest day's hard labour unless you had a gun in your hands." She reminded him.

"Hey, you forget that I'm outnumbered here. I can assure you that I put in my very best efforts on a regular basis." Wolfe replied with a smirk.

"I'm not sure that counts. But now that you're at work let's get you properly working. You might as well do all the common areas and the furniture in here. I've made some nice couches for the lounge and soft chairs for the reading rooms.

There are also storage arrays for you to finish in the supply rooms and a gravity charm to put on the carts we made to move gear up to the surface. I don't want to have to try to get a truck here to move it all, so do a good job on the carts." Priya insisted.

That was easy enough. The carts were just large flat carts with six wheels to move smoothly down the corridors, so Wolfe set a Fractional Gravity enchantment on them. One-tenth of a percent. A thousand kilos would weigh one kilo when it was on the cart, and he was pretty sure that any of them would be able to manage that. 

But the Array didn't affect the cart itself, so the wind wouldn't blow it away when it was sitting around outside.

"There we go, it's all finished, and the [Heat] Arrays have been put on the coffee pots in the break room," Wolfe announced once he finished with every necessary array in the small underground bunker, designed for only ten families to reside at long term.

They could always expand it later if more Pilots were needed or they wanted to make a forward operations base here during combat.