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- well, she was sitting at her house in the stupid demiplane that Diamond Queen Elizabeth had a bunch of people stuck in, doodling things in her notebook, but now she's somewhere else. They're on the outskirts of a town, near a pedestal with a pendant on it. There's tape around it, but no glass.
She's so tired of this stuff.
- she starts blushing when she notices this.
"I guess I can probably forgive it if it's just this once."
It occurs to her to look over at Fazil and Mahdi and see if they're having a stroke or something.
"- I think they'll want your perspective on it too? But yeah, maybe separately."
Hug.
And he goes off.
" - I haven't been with her. Because she gave me the plague, actually, but I should start at the beginning -"
"We have very different conceptions of how relationships work. I don't honestly feel that you in particular are entitled to specifics. But your little spell did its work, yes."
It is at this point that another woman appears in a burst of brilliant light. She's dressed in a long white gown and is almost - no, actually, just plain inhumanly beautiful, though it's hard to say what in particular about her causes the effect. A ring of wildflowers blooms around where she's standing. She walks over to Korva, creating a path of flowers as she walks.
"Hello, Korva."
"I apologize for intruding," she says to Elizabeth, and then turns back to Korva. "You have done me a great service. The beings you reunited were the final work of one of the souls that resides within this weapon," she says, pulling a beautiful ornate glaive out of thin air. "By returning his life's work to its proper function, you have allowed me to free the human Landru's soul. Thank you."
She smiles.
"I believe that you did a fine job during your brief time as my cleric, despite your limitations and the obstacles that were placed in your path. You are thinking that you did not make clever use of spells to accomplish your goals, but that is not the measure of a deity's representative. When faced with a world devoid of love, beauty, and freedom, you sought to return them, even though you had no way of knowing that it would return you to your home. Your philosophy told you that Landru's broken cause was just, but your heart rejected it, and you followed your heart. I believe you have been a fine representative of me all your life, Korva. Even without any hope for yourself, you act to protect others and lift them to greater heights.
"I have come here to offer you the chance to become my representative permanently. On one condition."
"Renounce Asmodeus entirely. I do not ask that you believe, today, that you will always be free of him. But I ask you to fight for it. If not for yourself, then for those you love."
"Wonderful," says the goddess, and she hugs her, and then dissolves in a bright light.
She pitches backward onto the grass and stares at Elizabeth's fake sky.
She's wearing a flower crown where she used to have a headband covered in Asmodeus's holy symbols.
"Wow."
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