"PLEASE don't leave me, Brother," Neoma said desperately. [Gosh, what am I saying?]
It looked like she had gotten attached to Nero more than she liked.
[Am I softie inside?]
"Neoma, I'll be back before you know it," Nero promised her. Then, he touched her face. "I will write to you as often as I could. His Majesty already asked for the Saint's permission to allow me to call you via Virtual Call twice a month."
'Virtual Call' was equal to modern time's "video call."
To perform a Virtual Call, there was a need for two pocket watches embedded with magic. If you put in the right "time" in the pocket watch, it would connect to the matching pocket watch. Then, the glass inside the pocket watch would act like a video camera where the owners of the pocket watches could see and hear each other.
