Bella wakes up in the hospital.
She is not critically low on gem clarity, so she has the next two hours to herself to think as long as she doesn't make noise, which she doesn't, and foxes all the monitors attached to her real quick before they beep, which she does; she could go out the window but she has no plans for this loop which require her to skip town. She clicks her heels together and gets into her costume and pulls out a notebook to organize her itinerary.
They can? ...Is it that much of a big deal when people die, then?
Well, they can't come back except in Valinor, so it's a big deal to us in Beleriand because their families won't see them again unless they die themselves. And being murdered is awful enough for the soul that it takes a while to be okay with coming back to life. I guess it's not worse than beating someone into a century-long coma.
Ah. ...I feel like I would want to come back pronto if I got murdered, I don't see what a century in a coma would do for me.
Me too, but I think it's not an easy process, somehow. Very few people choose come back to life if they die a second time.
I've never met someone resurrected by wish and I guess I couldn't trust the fluffs to advertise the side effects but honestly that sounds like the Valar are just not particularly good at resurrecting people.
I should find someone resurrected by wish before I go around repeating the process. She writes this down.
Only among people who think about what to wish for over more than ten minutes, so no.
I'm exaggerating, but only a little. I think the process is usually, 'wow, I get a wish. What are the things that come to mind if I think about problems in my life that I have right now?' and maybe the answer is they want a million dollars or maybe it's that they're transgendered - uh, I don't know if Elves have that or how you feel about it if you do - or maybe it's that they don't look shiny and appealing to the girl they have a crush on, whatever, but 'someone died a while ago' rarely pops up as a 'right now' problem, let alone something that isn't about them personally.
We have people who change their bodies because the ones they were born with don't match their soul. And you'd think "I miss a loved one" would be up there, or are most people in your world not missing loved ones?
A lot of teenagers aren't. It may be the wish ratios are different in places with worse mortality rates, but, like, no one I'm personally close to has died except insofar as the world keeps ending. And people tend not to think of it as a current, ongoing grief.
Religious people generally believe in an afterlife, but the grieving process isn't set up to dwell on that very much.
I've never actually heard of someone doing a wish for information before. Which I wish surprised me more than it does, but fluffs have a policy against telling people what wishes other girls have made or, like, giving out a menu, so all I know is what I can get them to tell me. Might work.
I bet you can. She seemed very lonely. I feel bad, normally I'd want to be her friend but sounds like I really can't.
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