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Everyone pops in. All the Bells, all the Jokers - except for the Joker, who is missing for some reason - and the Bells immediately, without having to speak, divide their tasks amongst themselves. Stella and Angela and Pattern and Cam start brainstorming solutions - not implementing them, yet, just generating ideas that might work depending on what they're dealing with. Golden, as the one who's actually had her mind read by a loved one - albeit under more controlled circumstances - is working with Shell Bell, the other previously broken-beyond-recognition Bell, on coming up with a plan to help walk Isibel through recovery after they fix this somehow. Cam eventually folds into this conversation from the other since he's the one with a talking notebook; if they can find Isibel's old books they might be able to turn them into something that could help more actively. Rose is peering into Isibel's mindscape, looking for visible damage that she can just heal directly. Amariah's popping back into Milliways and forcing the door to the elf's world so she can drop a Janepoint in the cave to keep it temporally synced, then coming back and joining Juliet and Aegis in interrogating the demon and the waking dragon about what exactly they have done to Isibel.
"We're going to have to wake her to test it. Ugh, I told her she'd wake up safe. Goddesses all, I hate this, I hate this," mutters Amariah, undoing her sleep-wish.
Isibel opens her eyes, and then scrunches them shut again and shudders in the demon's embrace.
"We're going to have to wake you to test things as we think of them, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," murmurs Amariah, and she sends Isibel back to sleep.
"Nothing, I take it. My aura does some - but no, she can't cast anything like this, can she."
"Cutting the bond at the source - I know you don't like it, Amariah, but she's disintegrating -"
"It would be kinder to kill her and then leave her dead," Amariah says flatly.
"We can try Downside, then, if these things usually end when someone dies. Send her through. Will she need to avoid seeing you again?" Shell Bell asks the demon and the dragon. "Would that just stick you back together? I don't know how this forms."
"It forms when she sees me, and knows me, and loves me," says the dragon. "It is possible to - choose not to accept the bond, even then. But those who do will carry a deep sorrow all their lives."
"But she could still visit the demony half of you?" hazards Juliet.
"We were friends - when she knew she could bond to my love, but did not know she had to. She saw only me, and it was... fine."
"Magic in your world isn't mean, right? It's not going to destroy everything she sacrificed for if we try to cheat her out of the sacrifice being permanent?"
The answer appears to be no.
"Who's already been looked over by the admin and wants to take Isibel there? I don't think we'd better wait around to find someone from her world to make torchable."
"I'll go." Angela holds out her arms towards the demon for Isibel.
"Jane," she murmurs.
And Jane takes angel and elf Downside.
[Excuse me,] Angela says to the admin. [I need a world added and don't yet want to make anyone from it able to torch.]
[We need to actually kill her and then bring her back, not torch her, but I brought her here so you could use her to find the world to hook her in.]
[Done,] says the admin, and indeed it is now apparent through Isibel that her world is linked to Downside.
Angela does it, shivering, with a square, cleanly. There isn't a body, not with the death occurring Downside; the elf vanishes from her arms.
Back in Atlantis, the demon throws his arms around the dragon's neck and cries. But the dragon sighs with relief.