Confused hug back!

(She'd been talking to her sister, around a campfire at the border - she'd been so confused, when her sister said it wasn't her time yet - )

"You- were dead."

Tighter hug.

"Yeah."

"Technique does that."

"You okay?"

Hug.

"No."

Very determined cuddles, like she can hug the okayness back.

"I'm alive, now."

"Don't die again."

"I'll do my best."

They should probably leave, but she doesn't really feel up to moving right now.

The cleric from earlier is still around.

He clears his throat.

"Ah, given that your party was instrumental in Acererak's defeat - I do believe any reasonable temple would be willing to provide future resurrections for free." He pauses. "I certainly would be. I can easily make up the cost of materials, and I quite appreciate not having my soul devoured."

There's some nice benefits to following a chaotic neutral god, like 'offering to no-questions-asked repeatedly resurrect the chaotic evil party' not being heresy.

"Our thanks. Though we will endeavor not to require such services, I'm sure."

He nods. "You'll also have your pick of the magic items from here - and I suspect of fairly arbitrary rewards from quite a large number of people, if you feel inclined to stick around."

"Noted, thank you."

Indeed, somebody soon after comes over with a portable hole, apparently full of books from a library they found - and checked for traps - and Acererak's gear. First spoils to the main adventuring party, is the explanation (you don't get to high tier without some adventuring ethics, if only purely from self preservation).

Hisame relays her information on the prisoners they'd passed - and the existence of the trapped children - to someone who comes over, and it's quickly confirmed her technique restored the children to life, too. There's fledgling attempts to get things under control here, and some of the good aligned adventurers are arranging a sweep back through the dungeon, to look for and potentially rescue anyone who'd been still inside or restored to life by Hisame's technique. Multiple people are also trying to find a way out - the protections against teleports and dimensional travel are apparently still up.

And then somebody (on a tip from Hisame, from her memories stolen from the hag) finds an exit, that's confirmed to take them back to the dungeon's start. Adventurers start leaving, a few after vague promises of future favors to the party.

"Do you want to go now, darling?" Hisame asks her girlfriend. (She's been very contentedly cuddling during all this.)

"I don't- want to stay here."

"Then let's get going."

Standing without breaking the cuddle is awkward but doable!

Hisame stays pressed along the Keres' side on the entire walk out, which involves heading through the misty portal at the back of the lava room, then a few twists and turns to an obelisk that apparently teleports you out when touched.

Hisame sighs once they're back in sunlight.

"Well, that was an adventure."

"Indeed. I... regret that it proved so costly, even temporarily."

"You 'regret'. Fuck you."

Hisame is kind of aggressively leaning. "I don't regret. I'm fine, and I already knew resurrection existed here before I did it, and I don't want any alt of my girlfriend dying like that, especially if it's a version of me being the asshole. I even got to talk to some of the people I've lost, while I was on the other side."

The Keres tightens her grip on Hisame and takes a deep breath.

"Fine."

Quick kiss. Lean.

To Elatra: "I suspect most of the spoils we received will be of more use to you?" And, more to the Keres than anyone else: "And we might want to check if Ellayania wants to expand to this world, too, though I'll understand if you want to immediately move on, darling."

She buries her face in Hisame's shoulder. "Moving on won't make it better," she mutters.

"I suspect so. Who is Ellayania?"

"Another one of us," Eliana says. "A goddess." She passes the portable hole over so Elatra can look through it.

The portable hole contains very many magic items useful to a mage, some of them similar to ones Elatra already owns, but many of them better than or different from her gear. The most notable is a dagger with a nearly overwhelming aura of necromancy - she can't identify it at a glance, but it seems to have some hallmarks of an artifact.

The books include a very large number of lost and historic tomes on assorted points of lore, especially history, planar studies, and necromancy. There's a variety of spell books, most including spells Elatra doesn't know - including ones more powerful than what she has.

Hisame, meanwhile, hugs her girlfriend. "Let's go somewhere calmer," she says, softly. "I can come back for anyone who wants to linger."