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"She is dead," says the dragon, with strongly mixed emotions. "I felt it. The bond no longer links us."

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"Tell Angela to wake her," murmurs Amariah.

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Angela gets this instruction.

And she wakes Isibel.
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The demon shudders and weeps helplessly; the dragon bows his head.

"She is with us again," he murmurs.
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Isibel doesn't even know what's happening. She keeps waking to find that she's still watched and she still hurts, and the winged mirror of her who seems so kind clearly wants to help but has not.

She offers up her love to her Bonded; there's not a lot else for her to do.
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When Angela hears this report she sighs and picks up Isibel again and asks Jane to take them both back to Atlantis; there is clearly no point to keeping Isibel away from the dragon. She puts Isibel back to sleep.

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When Isibel appears again, the demon is still crying too hard to notice immediately.

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Angela deposits the elf with her beloveds and steps back solemnly.

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"That leaves -"

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"Don't interrupt me, that was uncalled for -"

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"It's an atrocity, unless I desperately miss my guess - sweeties, Sue -"

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Kas and Petaal disentangle themselves from the pile of Jokers that have until now mostly all been huddling up and feeling sad together. Sue follows, and Ivy instantiates as a mouse on his shoulder because why else would Amariah be calling for them?

"What is it?" says Petaal, wrapping herself around Kas's neck and shoulders as a dark grey snake with pebbled skin.
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"I was going to say we can patch that part, Amariah," says Pattern. "We can hook them up to just each other and not Isibel like ten ways and throw in Sue for good measure and then go after the dragonbondy thing."

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"They want to take the bond apart but it's what holds the demon and the dragon together," murmurs Amariah to the daemoned Jokers. "I'm not sure if - there's no substitutions for daemons but maybe they work just differently enough?"

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"...well, I can ask," says Sue.

He touches the dragon's mind.
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The demon and the dragon show him what it is to be them: sharing every thought, touching souls even in dreams. One person with two experiences of the world.

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Sue swallows.

"They're a lot like us," says Ivy. "A lot, a lot. But - I don't know - if you linked them up every way you could, it might work." She shivers. "We can't see how it wouldn't, just from looking."
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"Bell standard with visual channel isn't going to cut it here," says Stella. "Maybe same basis, omit the visuals, just run it with everything automatically 'opened' as it happens." She hexes it up in both directions.

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"And enchanter's mindscape-reading. If you're truly one I don't know how well it will work, but -" Rose wishes both enchanter power and enchanter skill and murmurs the instructions to the mindscape-reading spell she uses with Beast.

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"And a link like Sue's, automated pushing - and Sue, you might wanna stay hooked in while we do it, if you can stand it, in case they need more bandwidth or something -" Aegis wishes them a facsimile of what Sue does just between demon and dragon.

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"And something like what daemons have with their people, not the drawbacks but the connection," says Amariah, and she takes a moment to work out a design, preemptive anti-intercision, and she wishes it into place.

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"And something as near to the original as possible without incorporating Isibel or anything else, just - copied over with that edit," says Angela, and she wishes too.

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"Could throw in a limited target version of Edward, or - no, if you want it comprehensive you want Aro-at-range. Here." Golden wishes too.

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"Are we forgetting anything?" Juliet asks.

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