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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 -
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imeanforever
imeanforever
"If she's in partial control and I can make her use it, I need it. Just a syllable will do, if you know any of the names I already have and there's something that overlaps use that."
imeanforever
Thanks to plain speaking, Promise is not even momentarily inconvenienced by that pun!
At the same time, she raises her voice and says, "Stop," to Miss No and the evil clones, and makes a black hole gate under Bonesaw, which she follows up with the rest of a box.
At the same time, she raises her voice and says, "Stop," to Miss No and the evil clones, and makes a black hole gate under Bonesaw, which she follows up with the rest of a box.
wormcan
The clones stop. Noelle mostly does, and entirely does from the top of the unearthly slab of meat on up.
Bonesaw's legs are torn off at the hip as soon as they extend partly through the gate. There is no visible injury left behind. Then the Siberian appears out of thin air and catches her. Both villains hover in the middle of the box.
"Aw. And Panacea was doing so well, too."
Bonesaw's legs are torn off at the hip as soon as they extend partly through the gate. There is no visible injury left behind. Then the Siberian appears out of thin air and catches her. Both villains hover in the middle of the box.
"Aw. And Panacea was doing so well, too."
imeanforever
"You may breathe," Promise says to Noelle and clones. To Evil Amies: "Without collateral damage, side effects, or allowing the possibility of inconvenient-to-me collision between your attempts, thoroughly counteract harmful power use by yourselves and any other clones of your variety, now."
Lights on the gatebox, which capes should recognize from the Leviathan fight.
To Noelle: "You may speak."
Lights on the gatebox, which capes should recognize from the Leviathan fight.
To Noelle: "You may speak."
wormcan
"Yes. Probably. You're safe as long as I don't go berserk again."
The braver of the recently arrived heroes tries pushing Bonesaw into one of the gates. Nothing happens, she's as immovable as the Siberian. She smiles and waves.
The braver of the recently arrived heroes tries pushing Bonesaw into one of the gates. Nothing happens, she's as immovable as the Siberian. She smiles and waves.
imeanforever
Promise backs up a bit. "I can try a healing spell but I don't know if it will work. If it doesn't, I can try turning you into a sparrow, then back unless it so happens you've always wanted to be a sparrow; is that okay?"
wormcan
"Would that help? You can try anything that might work, I don't want to be like...like this."
imeanforever
"I don't know. It can work for healing and it does it really differently."
imeanforever
"Once I've spent enough time looking at you near-instant. Enough time is about fifteen minutes. If you suddenly lunge at me in that time I can drop you in a black hole unless the Siberian decides to save you too. ...There really, really need to not be any evil clones of me, that would be so bad."
wormcan
"I'll let you know if it feels like I'm losing any more control."
Noelle is surprisingly unconcerned at the casual mention of being dropped in a black hole.
Noelle is surprisingly unconcerned at the casual mention of being dropped in a black hole.
imeanforever
"I'd make it uninhabited Fairyland and then come look at you the rest of the way from the air but it would be easy for you to back up and go around without the black hole's pull."
Promise glances at the still, evil clones. "...So, these clones are evil, but not currently dangerous. How evil are they? In what way? ...I'm not sure that counts as evil," she adds, gesturing at the ones who are frozen mid-softcore-pornography.
Promise glances at the still, evil clones. "...So, these clones are evil, but not currently dangerous. How evil are they? In what way? ...I'm not sure that counts as evil," she adds, gesturing at the ones who are frozen mid-softcore-pornography.
wormcan
"That's...I don't even know what's up with that. Normally they just go try to kill people. The originals if they can, if not then anyone the original knows, and they say they want to destroy everything else. But my, my friends have always managed to kill them first early on. Before."
imeanforever
"Well, these ones aren't going to kill anyone or destroy anything, and I'm not sure anyone should kill and/or destroy them unless they're the sort of evil that prefers suicide to living in a constant state of thwart." She turns to the clones. "You may speak. ...And you two may step back from each other and if you don't I will be in a much more awkward frame of mind when deciding what to do with you."
wormcan
One of the Amies decides to speak. "Evil? We're nothing they aren't. That one, the waste of air, she's let more people die than we ever have and she's wanted to kill more. You know that as well as anyone. Look at her now, she's healing someone and crying about it."
imeanforever
"If you're trying to make the case that you aren't evil, just obnoxious, you're making decent progress. I could demand your best estimate for how many people would have died if I hadn't made you undo whatever nastiness you concocted, but I think I'll refrain."
wormcan
They don't volunteer the information. And their contempt for Promise for not even being able to hate them properly isn't visible at all, thanks to the orders.
imeanforever
Kissy Victoria takes advantage of her ability to step away from Evil Amy, since no opportunity to conveniently step on Promise in so doing appears likely to materialize and she doesn't think it's having the desired effect any more.
"Panacea, if you can just get him stabilized I'll be able to do the rest soon, if you aren't in a condition to want to heal."
"Panacea, if you can just get him stabilized I'll be able to do the rest soon, if you aren't in a condition to want to heal."
wormcan
"He isn't going to die in the next few minutes anymore. You can do brains, right?"
"NO! You were doing so well!"
"NO! You were doing so well!"
imeanforever
"I can heal brain damage, yes. So why did you two wander off? Has it been that long? The Slaughterhouse Nine are clearly still in town," says Promise.
"We, uh, wanted to know what you meant about Leviathan being dead so we went to that town and asked and called our family," says Victoria, oddly subdued. "And - and some of them were dead. And we wanted to be home."
"We, uh, wanted to know what you meant about Leviathan being dead so we went to that town and asked and called our family," says Victoria, oddly subdued. "And - and some of them were dead. And we wanted to be home."
imeanforever
"I can learn two people to cast on simultaneously."
Promise looks at Assault. She looks at Miss No over there. This could be sort of boring for the interval.
Promise looks at Assault. She looks at Miss No over there. This could be sort of boring for the interval.