She is slower than the mirror-faced snake, and for some reason it is choosing to chase her, and she is not in dense enough forest to lose it by going up a tree or between a couple too narrowly spaced for it. So it catches her before emergency services can turn up.
And then she is somewhere else, in a not particularly attractive room next to a person who looks sort of off somehow.
"Excuse me," she says, taking a step out of his personal space.
"One of the world's evil gods had computer servers on which he was horribly torturing billions of people, while also for his entertainment waging a land war against them, and he agreed in a magically-binding fashion to stop, in exchange for the destruction of the planet his enemies lived on. We found Cam in the middle of resurrecting most of its populace from their backups."
"...okay. Do you have to worry about him destroying more planets, considering?"
"Well, the problem is that we do have an evil god torturing astonishing numbers of people and capable of making binding agreements, here. I - don't think he would -"
"Personally making a gut call about whether he'll do it again isn't my right, it isn't the right process. There's enough similarity in the circumstances that we'd need more assurance than that."
"These people also have a weird setup where they get rewarded or punished in the afterlife for their virtue or vices in life," he adds to Pelape.
"...and this involves evil gods torturing astonishing numbers of people. Rough system."
"About ten percent of Osirians get a bad afterlife but in some societies it's nearly all of them."
"I can resurrect the dead. One or two a day, if they agree to come back. There are other people who can do it too, but we can't get anywhere near everyone."
"A couple of hours ago I would've told you no. Now - Mirelótë thinks her gods will try to help, if we can find them."
"Exciting. Well, uh, it's... nice to meet you all, I'm Pelape Milath."
"I've seen you in person. I attended the speech you gave about how great the test in Nalame is going."
He frowns at her contemplatively for a second. "Want to walk down to the rest of them? I was just there."
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