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Snuggle snuggle.

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[Roger.]

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Amariah appears a minute later. "What's - oh, new Bell," she says. "Friendly new elfy Bell. Who - intensely upsets you? Hi."

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"She has a me but she says he can't help reading her mind all the time," says Kas.

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"Sometimes they sleep," sighs Isibel, "sometimes they concentrate, sometimes I sleep, sometimes I concentrate -"

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"- How long has this been going on?" asks Amariah slowly.

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"A year - and some moonturns - I don't count them - it's spring again -"

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Kas cuddles Isibel. So does Petaal.

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She cuddles back.

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"Goddesses all. Okay. Elfbell. I know thinking must be - agonizingly hard right now - but you need to answer just a few questions - okay? If we can fix it, can you put yourself back together - if we can magic the mindreading away and you're safe and private in your own head for forever - can you fix it?"

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Isibel blinks slowly.

"I don't know," she says.
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"But maybe? Okay. We're not short on time for you, if you can do it then we will find a place to put you that's safe and you can work on it there, okay, we will take care of you - there are ten of us and we are okay - will you trust us to decide things for you till you're put back together?"

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"...You should talk to my beloveds," sighs Isibel. "About that."

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Petaal cuddles up in Isibel's lap, making helpless little sniffly noises.

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"Okay. We'll talk to them," says Amariah. "We'll figure something out with them. We'll have to talk to them - can you take us through the door to where they are? And then if you wake them up I can send you to sleep, and keep you that way, until everything's fixed, will that be all right?"

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"I'll take you where they are and wake them and go to sleep and when I wake up I'll be safe," says Isibel trustfully. She kisses Petaal - a chaste little kiss on the head - and disentangles herself and collects her book and pen again and goes to the door.

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Kas picks up his fluffy daemon and follows.

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[This,] Amariah tells her sweeties as she follows them to the door, [is a disaster. I think we should bring in all the Bells - maybe all the Jokers - when we get there; this isn't like Shell Bell where she had a stable version of herself to do the steering, we don't have one of this exact instance.]

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[Yeah, fuck,] says Kas.

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[...They'll cooperate, right? They won't want to go on reading her? She's turning over a lot of the steering power over to them but she's so loopy I don't know why she's doing it.]

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[Looking at her makes me want to cry. I don't know how they could feel any different.]

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[I was thinking something like - how vampire mates work in Aurum. Those only usually work out and when they don't the keener half can get deluded about it in a hurry. Something like that.]

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Isibel opens the door. It leads to a pretty little house, beautifully decorated, listlessly maintained. Something comes over her - her breaths drop into even rhythm and she starts walking with singleminded purpose. Out the door, onto a subtle path, up.

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Amariah wraps herself and Path in invisibility before following the elf out of the building.

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Kas does likewise. Petaal turns into a least weasel and rides on his shoulder.

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