They are the very model of forethought and convenience.

She bursts into laughter.

The Keres is practicing her very good poker face.

Hisame kisses her.

Kiss!

"We're going to need to find a world without protective alts we can be reckless and inconvenient at, aren't we. Though the dragons have been fun."

"Not quite the same as a person with legible emotion, though."

"Absolutely."

"Then it's a date."

That calls for a kiss, clearly.

Clearly.

Glint gets quite a bit done over the next two days. She updates Meridia, helps with forging a path to Sovngarde, gets the dragons processed for alchemy ingredients and scales for armor - Hisame and the Keres can have some snazzy new coats.

And, of course, planning.

Unfortunately, Hisame shoots down the idea of soul-sucking Alduin. It's an iffy technique to begin with, and she suspects it'd be overloading, even if it worked. Which, none of the Daedric Princes feel like valid targets.

Then they'll do something different.

There's always the old standby of 'kill it until it dies'.

That might actually be viable, according to Ellayania's research. If they thoroughly discorporate Alduin, he'll be unhooked from the timestream again. That will give them, at minimum, more time to find a way to neutralize him permanently.

And Merid-Nunda has her superweapon. She'd prefer to fire up at Alduin, to minimize the amount of annoyed the Aedra are at her for wrecking an afterlife - and she'll want to aim so the beam leaves the layers of Aetherius and disperses before it hits any other universes -

Anyways.

People who need their bodies corporeal and not on or made of fire should be shielded or on a different plane when she fires. It should create enough turbulence in space-time to very thoroughly unseat Alduin - buy them millennia instead of centuries, and leave him wounded when he comes back around.

It has a long charge time, and Alduin is probably not stupid enough to let her do that unattacked, so she'll need help defending or disguising the device.

Eliana appreciates not being made of fire. Mark her down for a ticket out at that point.

Elatra needs time with the area beforehand to dig in defenses. Perhaps she and Eliana can be in the first wave of attackers while the Keres protects the device, and when it's charged, they switch out.

"That works. Unfortunately, Jyggalag has been incommunicado, but if he appears I'll get him updated. Likely at the final moment we should only have gods and those of our servants we can easily resurrect present."

"That seems most prudent."

"I'll be on making sure everyone's out in time."

"Prioritize, if you need to."

"Yeah. Of course some people can get themselves out - but it's good to have one person who's job 'checking' is."

"Do you think you could make me a body to take over? I can have up to six running around but can only actually make temporary ones, and it might be good to have my body proper not in the plane we're planning on setting on fire."