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The hospital staff put up some resistance, but allow her to bring him home; it's plain that they all think it's just a preference on his part to die in his own home rather than the impersonal sterility of a hospital.

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And when they get there:

There is shock. There is hugs. There is incoherent babbling of gratitude.
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Mehitabel avoids being too visibly smug. Anna's the one with the healing item.

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Andrea doesn't really care who did what right now. Actually she's not really thanking either of them (that she knows of), just breathing, "Thank God thank God thankGod thankgodthankgodthankgod."

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Close enough.

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Eventually she peels herself off him for long enough to find out what supposedly happened and offer slightly more coherent and specific thanks to Anna.

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As is entirely reasonable.

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And then she goes to take a nap because it turns out staying up late the night before desperately ransacking a library and then spending the day as a sobbing lump of guilt and preemptive grief is exhausting.

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And Mehitabel should probably go home and leave this poor stressed-out family alone now.

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That's probably for the best.

On the plus side, after everything has calmed down a bit, lessons can resume as usual, and he's not nearly so tired anymore.
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It does take him a few weeks to get over the whole Second Coming thing. It's nothing tangible while it lasts--hesitations at odd moments, a certain air of wary respect that wasn't there before. But it does go away.

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Good. She is mostly just a person.

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A person he knows, more to the point. Whatever she may be, she's still the little prodigy.

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Yep! Yay magic!




Eventually, Mehitabel asks Anaphiel if it is more expensive for God to send the same amount of information in several messages or if it doesn't matter how many it is as long as it's the same total amount.
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"Well, a longer message is a little more expensive than a shorter one, but two messages is significantly more expensive than one."

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"Okay. I think I want to write a revised Bible thing? In case I want to start a religion on short notice. But if it's cheaper to do long messages I should do as much as I can by myself and with you before I go check with her for corrections. I want to learn more about how people are actually already doing religion than just going to the one church so I know more about how to write it."

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"We can start going to other kinds of religious service and I can get you books on other religions."

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"Yeah! We might have to go places that are not Forks about it. It is very small here."

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"I think I can afford to teleport twice a week without trouble."

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"Okay. And maybe I should learn other languages. Especially like Arabic because the Koran is in it and I might want to comment directly on that."

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"Getting an English translation won't be hard, but, yes, reading it in the original language is probably for the best."

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When they go and get an Arabic Koran at the bookstore, Mehitabel finds that she can read it.

She giggles.
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"Convenient. Let's make sure it goes the other way too, shall we?"

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"السلام عليكم"

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