The Yew Queen can try, too, though hers is less robust interworld...

Neither of them finds anything. The scries fail when targeted for Elesse - even when they work on other known lightning alts presently in other worlds.

The Yew Queen is able, while standing in Ani's home universe, to get a wavering scry - almost a concept - of Elesse leaving in her ship for the Mid Rim, over a month ago, and very quickly something interfering, crashing the past scry - and Elesse's unfindable in the past scry of the universe after that point.

"Something has stolen her."

"Something has a reckoning coming."

"Indeed. This shall not pass unanswered."

She nods, tightly.

After that - they need to keep searching. The slow way, if they have to. (Preparing, also. Ani starts seriously stretching her powers in the Force again, far more than she had been these last few years...)

Meanwhile...

Some time later, in a universe far away, a woman's rechecking her logic on a new spell. She's been closely observing the weave of the world from her primary castle - well positioned for that, and usable now that she's not hiding being the (ex) Villain any more, and she's fairly sure entering without the world itself making an opening might be next to impossible -

But they should be able to cut their way out.

Of course, it's possible they won't be able to return - Ashes is unsure if the wounds they make on their passing will close on their own. But they've done good work, helping this world back on its feet, and -

Perhaps with no Summoned Hero or Summoned Villain around to template, this world will simply stop its nonsense.

They can take all they wish to have with them when they go, just to be sure.

Ashes takes her final notes to Elesse for review.

"You would know better than I, but... this seems correct. I assume we will be asking your children along?"

She nods, smiling. "I'd rather not leave them... I suspect Luka will be the easier sell. Leya's - attached, still, even if she sometimes chafes at this world's restrictions."

"I'm sure, properly phrased, we can pry her loose."

"Give her a whole set of universes to make behave."

"Quite."

She laughs, a little, and sets to preparing them to leave. They need to talk to her children, of course, but also there's a few final things to wrap up, or arrange for someone else to take care of...

Still, they've been doing a lot of prep work as Ashes has plucked away at this spell. It's not much, in the end.

Elesse's time here has been almost entirely pruning rather than setting roots, so soon enough, they're ready.

Luka agrees to come along, though he's thoughtful - he has a Name, by now, and he's been doing a lot of good.

Still...

Their world's small, and without the Summoned disrupting it... He suspects there'll be so much more to help, out there.

(And he doesn't want his family torn apart again. Not yet.)

It's Luka who convinces Leya to come - she'll miss her adoptive parents, of course, but... When you're one of the Great, leaving home and never returning is normal.

She doesn't want to leave her brother, and... She agrees with him, that they can do far more out there than in here.

The transit spell's the sort that's stronger when cast by a group.

Ashes has taught it to their entire party, of course.

She hold hands with Elesse and Luka, Leya between Luka and Elesse, and, together, the spell weaves around them, sharp, cutting, intense -

And they fall, and land - elsewhere, again.

And a stack of books is knocked over prompting a cry of "Shit!"

Ashes turns, surprised. " - Sorry!"

- And someone sticks her head around the door.

"...Um?"

"Ah. Our apologies for intruding, but we had no way of picking our destination. Still, it seems to have been fortuitous."

" - You really shouldn't use arrays without checking the math yourself or going through a licensed agency; your coordinates for the Khazad-dûm Interdimensional Welcome Center are about a thousand feet off."

"We were not using an... array, did you say? Our method of travel is peculiar to the world we came from. My name is Elesse. This is Ashes, and her children."

Leya nods at the two new people, while Luka waves.

"We're the Elric sisters - I'm Bellona, this's Elizabeth. And I'm guessing you're not from that world with magical girl and monster artifacts, wrong aesthetic, so your world's new..." She glances at El. "How about I go get them settled?" (And out of her sister's hair, of course.)