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Every other time they have arrived too late. The first time, the aasimar had been murdered in his home; the blood was not yet cold, but the body was gone, so there was no question of raising him. The second time, they saw the city burning as they flew in and were unsurprised to find their target's home at the center of the firestorm. No body that time either.

The third one had already been taken prisoner by the time they arrived, and they spent six months chasing her frantically halfway across the world. The cultists didn't make it to the gate with her, but they didn't recover her alive either. 

Honestly the whole situation is pretty dispiriting and doing terrifying things to their bank accounts, and if they aren't able to rescue this one they are going to need to go back to Sothis and cast spells for pay for a while. Though if this one is in enemy hands they'll hardly have affordance to do that.

This one is being held in a village, in an ordinary-looking house, but the other houses looked ordinary too, or at least the ashes of them did, and one can't be too careful.

A second before the wall collapses, the residents of the house might notice that everything goes silent and they can no longer speak.

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"Well, in Osirion you can worship any god the most, even horrible worthless gods with nothing going for them like Asmodeus, but you can only proselytize for them if they're not chaotic and not evil."

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Flop. "Sounds complicated."

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"I think it's a bit precious but it beats banning all paladins from your whole country. What happened to them when Asmodeus seized power?"

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"They fled or were killed."

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"They were lucky, then," says Fazil. 

       "If we're going to be together for months we should maybe not talk about whether Cheliax sucks," says Mahdi.

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"Possibly."

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"Verita might die," Fazil says quietly.

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"And Kor - Imrainai's got the opposite of an incentive to help make that an outcome we're okay with, here," he says, not quietly. "So we should probably drop it even though, yes, it bothers me too. I think she'll be all right anyway. Smart kid."

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"Where d'you think I'd go if I did?"

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"I don't know. Let's try not to make it happen soon."

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"Keep practicing magic and Fazil'll be able to tell," Mahdi says. 

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"Cool."

She'll just keep practicing magic, then. Right now, actually. She makes a pile of little toys for herself and then moves them around with mage hand.

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Mahdi is enthusiastic about this.

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"I wish I had more spells. I just sort of got these by playing around and saying stuff. I dunno how to get more. I guess I could try saying random things."

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"That'd be dangerous," Mahdi says, "but looking up the incantations most sorcerers use and translating them to Celestial might be safer."

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"Why Celestial?"

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" - that's what you're casting in right now."

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"Huh! I guess that makes sense."

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      "I don't speak it but we can probably find a guide somewhere. Unless Hagan has it -"

"Not Celestial, nah."

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"What languages do you speak?"

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"Razatlani and Varisian and Taldane and Tien and ancient Osirian and Vudrani and Kelish and some Elven."

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"Cooool."

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"A well-travelled seagull," says Fazil dryly.

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"That's right."

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"Well seagulls can fly."

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