A second ago she was at work in the temple of Erastil in Sothis, which was actually going pretty okay, all things considered. Now she's in a grassy field with a couple fruit trees and a table and chairs and some notebooks and pens.
This is unexpected and requires a ton of power and is therefore sort of inherently terrifying. And she's alone, and defenseless, and she doesn't know where Verita is.
She mills around in steadily increasing amounts of distress until Hagan appears, just as suddenly.
Then it might be good to be using a world that doesn't have powerful agents of evil in it whose attention we'll attract.
She sits down on the grass and makes a stuffed bear for herself and hugs it.
"We could build stuff in the demiplane, but I don't know that's it's big enough or safe enough for resurrecting people that nobody here knows to be a good idea. We could - drop them on my earth, I guess, but it'd break whatever masquerade we have. We could work on interplanetary teleport and the stuff we'd need to terraform other planets. We could ask the fairy if his world is a safe place to bring people. But - even if we find somewhere, we still have to either integrate everyone into some existing country, or else, like, govern them, and I don't feel very ready to govern more than a couple dozen people."
"If we can bring them back harder to kill, and terraform a planet so food grows very easily there, you could make do with very light governance. But - yeah. It's a problem."
"That's at least three more spells, probably more. And I'm also supposed to be working on combat spells and better ways of contacting other planes. - it won't even take very long to get any of those things in objective terms, I just - don't know what I'm supposed to be focusing on - "
"Better ways of contacting other planes would help with finding one that can absorb people?"
"Yeah, I guess."
She flies over to Rana's stick house and sits down outside.
May I talk to you? I don't think I'll lie, but if I do I can fix the debt right away and keep us unentangled.
I don't know how this thought thing works please don't do it. You can talk out loud.
" - sorry. Uh. We discovered that I can resurrect people and we're wondering if there's any world that can safely absorb the number of people I can probably resurrect. I think to find this out we probably want to pursue inter-plane communication, which means it might be good if someone could be sent back to their world and re-summoned a bunch of times. If you wanted to do that we could give you stuff for it. It might also be good if you could get lists of things other people want, and I could make those items to send back with you, since that's a kind of communication."
"I was figuring I could give the stuff to you and the debt could count as yours? I guess I don't know how much of your debt you want to pay off right now."
"All right. I'll have to send you both back for time to pass, and then I can get you back in a few minutes. I guess the first time I can just send you back with a bunch of - oh, I can also make magic items now, want any magic items? We have headbands that make people smarter."
The universe thinks this is not quite worth a life debt but it's up there.
She erases the debt. "You can keep that one. But I guess for other people maybe we want something that causes slightly less debt than that. Since I'm not sure whether I can erase it across planes."
She makes a ring. "This one lets you understand any spoken or written language?"
Also pretty expensive but less so.
"Cool." And she erases the debt. "I'm gonna send you home to take requests, then. - as long as she's okay going back, too?"
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