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Tree branch: check. Assorted lightweight seed-bearing fruits and nuts: check. Other seeds: check. Water bottle, for when she has to veer away from the river: check.
Better not linger in her starting place too much longer. Yellow's faster than her and may have already come home to a wreck. Thorn might have a habit of checking up on the place, even, just in case. She's invisible, inaudible, unsmellable - that won't help if he sends someone thorough. Or comes in person.
She sets out.
She's been flying for about thirty minutes after her shopping trip when she falls through a tear and squeaks inaudibly and lands in the middle of -
imeanforever
imeanforever
"Can't comment on the physics. And, you can't get it too badly wrong, if you do have to try. Can't make anything worse. If you get me conscious and in less than completely incapacitating pain I should be able to finish the job, anyway."
imeanforever
"When I say you couldn't make anything worse by trying to heal me I mean that very specifically. As long as I remember your name, you cannot hurt me. I can't even make you hurt me. You could get someone else to do it; or you could take extremely small risks and have unfortunate luck; but you can't so much as pluck a strand of hair off my head. I know this works on cape powers, too."
imeanforever
"Well, nothing unrecoverable will happen either, but that's for totally unrelated reasons having to do with me being extremely immortal, and 'not unrecoverable' can be very different from 'anywhere within five hundred million years of recoverable'."
imeanforever
"I just made up a large number, but I assume so. Certainly there are fairies who have lived so long that there is no record or memory of when they were new."
wormcan
"With humans, that would happen at much smaller numbers. Our entire history is a few thousand."
imeanforever
"Well, according to the Internet, you had to invent writing, which probably didn't help. That and the sometimes dying."
wormcan
"Even so, our whole world has only been around a few times that. I'd have to look it up, but it wouldn't surprise me if five hundred million years ago there were no such thing as trees."
wormcan
"Maybe. The only one anyone here knows of was completely identical up to about thirty years ago. There are people with duplicates. If they're all the same up to some point they'd have to be the same age, but I don't really know."
imeanforever
"Anyway. I'm sorry I can't help you yet. Whenever you're 18, or if you change your mind about asking your parents, or if you get different parents, let me know. And I'll ask my lawyer about jurisdictions but I don't expect it to pan out because human legal systems are inconvenient like that."
imeanforever
"See you at the hospital whenever the liability issues are sorted out. Get some rest, okay?"
And Promise goes back to her address, looks up information about minors, reads it, and asks Quinn, In the case of a minor, does changing jurisdictions help?
And Promise goes back to her address, looks up information about minors, reads it, and asks Quinn, In the case of a minor, does changing jurisdictions help?
wormcan
For the orders, no. Some jurisdictions do have more favorable laws, but transporting a minor across borders for an unlawful purpose is itself a chargeable offense. Especially when parahuman powers are involved.
If the minor in question happens to be planning to leave the country to such a jurisdiction any time soon, there is no local law against meeting them there. But changing jurisdictions for that reason will not help.
If the minor in question happens to be planning to leave the country to such a jurisdiction any time soon, there is no local law against meeting them there. But changing jurisdictions for that reason will not help.
wormcan
Who does not have any immediate plans to do that, but will check the laws of wherever the next international emergency she gets called to is, just in case.
imeanforever
Promise is certainly going to be at the next Endbringer fight. She might even consider sleeping in the mortal world when it's coming up so it won't be-and-gone while she's unable to be roused. But she doesn't detail this to Panacea; she doesn't want to get anyone's hopes up.
hold_dear
"- and your nominee is usually in this neighborhood, but she flies around a lot and I've spotted her vanishing entirely once, you might have a wait. And yours is here, down a few floors, she barely moves, you shouldn't have any problem going and saying hi. Yours has a favorite haunt over here... yours has been going to ground here, when he's at home...
...and me and Bonesaw can go see ours together! I think that will be fun."