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After Glass's party is over with, Amariah and Kas go home.
Amariah fetches down their alethiometers.
"It's about time I took care of Alethia's afterlife, whatever it may be," she says quietly. "What can the alethiometer tell you about what I'll find?"
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sicaria
"You should not be, and I do care, and I will go on caring. Your suffering does not help me. Your recovery will."
arenaria
The smew squirms under the gyrfalcon's wings, whimpering, and makes a tentative escape attempt.
sicaria
There is really no practical way for the gyrfalcon to keep hold of him. So he doesn't.
arenaria
Shell Bell and smew regard each other.
She reaches down and picks him up and holds him, not deliberately bringing him into contact with Sherlock but not going far out of her way to avoid it either.
She reaches down and picks him up and holds him, not deliberately bringing him into contact with Sherlock but not going far out of her way to avoid it either.
sicaria
Sherlock hugs them both.
The gyrfalcon flutters up to perch on Sherlock's shoulder and then bends down to run his beak through Shell Bell's hair.
The gyrfalcon flutters up to perch on Sherlock's shoulder and then bends down to run his beak through Shell Bell's hair.
arenaria
Shell Bell puts her head on Sherlock's shoulder and closes her eyes and falls asleep, smew on her chest.
sicaria
Sherlock sits down and holds them in her lap and snuggles them. Her gyrfalcon continues to preen Shell Bell's hair.
lifes_sake
Meanwhile Cam and Amariah are still looking for the accompanying Jokers and each other. Cam, midflight, asks the alethiometer: "Can harpies attack more than one person at a time?"
truthwright
"A flight of harpies will often harry a much larger group of ghosts," says the alethiometer, "although they do not prefer to."
lifes_sake
"What about live people, can a single harpy attack more than one of us?"
lifes_sake
Cam bounces these results to the link and starts grilling the alethiometer for directions to find the others.
truthwright
It's able to direct him, although not with perfect efficiency.
Kas, still trailed by an entourage of hopeful ghosts, is the first one to find him. He's having much better luck consulting his alethiometer.
Kas, still trailed by an entourage of hopeful ghosts, is the first one to find him. He's having much better luck consulting his alethiometer.
lifes_sake
"Hi," says Cam. He doesn't land; he doesn't want to be among the chilly ghosts. "You're better with these things than I am, where to to meet up with Amariah and Aianon?"