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I predict this will be a self-indulgent shippy meditation on power and responsibility but it's honestly hard to predict these threads
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I think that's the ideal for everyone, yeah.

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We're ready to go whenever.

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Cool. I'll let you know. I should probably talk to Rana first, I'm not sure anyone's actually done that.

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I haven't.

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She heads off into the rain forest and finds Rana's house. She's left him alone for, what, four days now? Maybe he's a tiny bit less mad after four days.

"Hey Rana?"

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"Yes?"

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"We're going to bring another Imrainai here. We have reason to believe that she has mind control powers that she might not know how to control, but it sounds like she's doing a lot of extremely important stuff and needs a lot of help, so we're going to try to help her. We were going to pause everyone who doesn't want to deal with mind control stuff until we've figured out more of what her situation is. I'm kind of assuming that you and Cecelia would prefer to be paused during this, but I wanted to make sure."

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"I do not want to deal with more people, or with mind control stuff."

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Nod.

She heads out of the forest. She heads around to everybody else, and lets them know that she's about to bring the other Imrainai to the demiplane.

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He says goodbye to his friends, who are going to go be paused away from the mind control.

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She creates a pile of wands of sending. "Anybody needs me, use a wand and call me."

She moves the group she needs to pause to Starferer's planet, then moves the Moonlight Falls group home, and then moves the new Imrainai and Starfarer's father to the demiplane.

She and Connor are standing in the fairy circle. 

"Well. It's done."

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"Cool! Let's go home."

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"Yeah. - you can watch TV now, you know. I dunno if you want to. But since misconduct by anyone entangled with me doesn't cause misfortune, you can."

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"Oooooh. What is some TV I should see."

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"I dunno. I like Star Trek, but it's not really the highest quality TV ever. - you can watch movies. We could show you Star Wars."

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"Sure." He thinks maybe watching some TV will be healthy for her.

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She seems pretty excited about it! "And we can all play video games again. Although possibly first we should sleep, since I've been fighting monsters and it seems to be... night. I guess it's still late the same day that we started this."

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"Okay. Sleep, then TV and video games?"

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"Yeah. - and then I guess zombies. Maybe zombies can be the day after tomorrow. - we should possibly let work know that we are probably quitting our jobs."

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"Oh. Yeah. And school."

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"Oh yeah. - I don't actually know whether we're allowed to quit school."

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"Well, I managed."

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"I'm not saying I can't stop going. I'm just not sure giving them advance notice of this would be helpful."

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Hug.

"You're being really brave and doing the right thing."

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"Thanks. I think you're right. Just - acutely aware of the fact that when I finally touch base with my parents I'll look about like I went down a checklist of every single thing they care about and decided to mess it up as badly as I could."

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