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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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"What do you know, when there are no gods it turns out everything's really nice."

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"Do you know how many babies would die being born if -"

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"Sorry, kidding, kidding." He holds up his hand in a defensive posture and his stump to match it. "I am sold on the merits of clerics."

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"Do we wanna just... hang out right by the gate? Look around any?"

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"I'm inclined to look around, on the whole? If it looks safe to stay here a while that'd be best. We can test whether it's possible to scry out from this plane, and if it is we can check if the other side is clear."

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"Sleep now, look around once Mahdi's playing with a full deck?"

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Nod.

She flops in the grass and sighs.

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"I can't really sleep under these conditions either," complains Mahdi, but he lies down to rest.

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Well she can sleep. She's going to do that.

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She sticks her hands in her pockets and mills around the meadow.

 

"Sorry about your arm."

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"It probably builds character or something. Or maybe the locals have figured out arcane healing since they don't have divine.

 

I know someone who had his cut off, as a teenager, because he wanted to be a judge and he thought he ought to know what it was like. Waited a week to fix it. Of course, he had servants to do everything."

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"Huh. I guess that's - I don't actually really know how that makes me feel."

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"Me neither.

I didn't mind the pain but I do mind that we're now down to one party member who can hold their own in a fight."

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Nod.

"I guess if it's dangerous we don't have to stay long."

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"We don't. If it's safe it'd be a bit of a shame not to explore, though, and if we were at full strength I'd feel better about our odds of managing should it be unexpectedly dangerous."

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"Yeah."

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"You doing okay?"

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"Yeah. I mean, adjusting to things actually happening after a week of lots of nothing happening, but - we have Verita."

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"We do! Pretty solid rescuing, on the whole. And Fazil has Plane Shift which will make him very happy when he retires."

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"Yeah. That's good."

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"He can shuttle people to Aktun. Pays well and socially important and all if you think people oughta get to visit Aktun."

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"I'm sure lots of people must want to."

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"Yeah. I mean, they could do worse."

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"So I'm told."

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He shakes his head tiredly. "I'm glad you made it all right. I was scared one of these days we'd have to raise you."

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