"Starfarer might be getting a pass because he was born that way. If the Valar could do longer lives I'd go for that?"

"Yeah, that seems safe."

"I can ask them? Does that mean you want to come?"

"Yeah. We don't know the etiquette or anything, I haven't even met Abadar and it's probably different."

"I have not been given any etiquette information but I was assured that they wouldn't be annoyed with us. So. Do you wanna come, Cecelia?"

"I'd - like to be immortal. I think."

"Cool. I think - It's probably not a big deal to unpause Cecelia's world for a little bit, given that it's running on fairy time anyway? And we can leave Valentine and Asmodia here to keep their worlds paused. I guess."

Nod.

"All right. Well. I'll let you guys know when. Probably later today. Wanna give the ex-slaves time to, like, mentally prepare themselves and stuff."

"Sounds good."

And she flies off to talk to - who else is there. Cecelia's sister and Asmodia and Verita, and she's not going to ask anybody not on this plane because then she'll end up feeling bad about leaving out, like, the entire population of the Earth. 

Is your me, like, already immortal? she asks Alex.

- I'm not really sure. Maybe? I think people in hells mostly don't age.

Does she - do you wanna ask the Valar about anything? Hell me?

I dunno. I guess dying again sounds very unpleasant.

Yeah, might as well check.

(She's worried about going to new places. They might not be as nice as this one.)

Will you come, too?

Of course.

Okay then. 

We can go.

Cool. I'll bring you guys with us when we go, then.

Aaaand who else is there, did she forget anyone. She flies up and looks over the busiest area of her demiplane. Not the pegasus, she still hasn't talked to the pegasus - oh, right, Hagan's dad is still hanging out in the library stacks. She lands next to him.

"Wanna be immortal?"

"Not especially, why?"

"I'm gonna go talk to the gods from Starfarer's world and see if they can fix it up for us. It's more important for anyone who stops existing when they die, but I figured I should probably ask anyway. I'm also gonna ask about, uh, keeping people from having babies by accident, but that seems less important because other people have other ways of achieving that, it's just that this one might be more convenient or have fewer side-effects or something. - I don't really know how much you've been keeping up with stuff."

"Well, we're not going to get any more, my wife is fifty."

"That also works! - if you're totally disinterested it'd be cool if you could be the person to stay behind and keep your world paused, I was going to leave Asmodia but I think she'd rather go."

"Sure. I might want to visit sometime, though, they have lots of cool linguistics experiments going."

"Sure. I'll try to remember once things have settled down."

And that's all the humans except Fazil and Mahdi, who she's pretty sure are asleep.

You wanna come talk to the Valar? she asks Connor. I know you don't need the immortality but, like, multiple required points of failure on the birth control thing seems like plausibly a good thing.