"Are you planning to sign it at the same time as me?"

"I can sign it before you arrive if you'd prefer?"

"I'm just trying to figure out the logistics. You're planning to do this at the studio?"

"Yes dear."

"I'll call you back in an hour to see if we can finalize a wording."

"Of course, no rush," she says with the borrowed voice before hanging up.

May sets a timer.

"How can I help?"

[Honestly the fact that you're willing to sign up for whatever shit she has in mind is big already, it would've been awful trying to decide between insisting and leaving all the hostages in the lurch. As for right now... dunno.]

Are hugs helpful? She can do those.

Yeah, hugs are helpful.

Lianelle is good at hugging - it's an important skill.

When May's timer goes off she calls back.

"Ah, how prompt of you," says someone who based on the accent doesn't typically speak English.

"You have a wording you like?"

"Yes."

It can be relayed to her, syllables over pronounced where the accent might ordinarily interfere.

May's going to write it all down, word for word.

"Do you need any repeated dear?"

"Yeah, give me paragraph seven again."

"Of course."

It's all what they were able to compromise on. One big loophole, but only one. She really would have liked to be able to resurrect Sakir next to a random person in another dimension that happened to be a dungeon, small enough to search manually. But she can buy Arctic a lot of plane tickets and find her, probably, because esper powers aren't "scrying", and that's if she needs to - anyone appearing suddenly in a random place on the Earth will be assumed to be an esper or a monster, and she won't know how to act like either. She'll get attention.

Also the contract doesn't specify whether, let alone what, she should be wearing clotheswise when she's resurrected. Maybe she can put CALL THIS NUMBER FOR A $500USD REWARD on the back of her shirt and hope getting a new outfit isn't her first priority.

"How're you planning to manage if you land in rural Indonesia or something?" May wonders.

"Oh, I'm sure I'll think of something. I can send you postcards if you'd like."

"Charming.

"I think I can sign this."

"When can I expect you?"

"Probably inside half an hour. Where in the studio do I look for you?"