Italy ho. Arctic and Sparkler are staying a bit longer in Athens for spot updates, May got them movable flights. Where is Sakir?

Blowing a guy in Andria.

Hopefully that'll occupy her for a while. Arctic can pan around to get an address and they can home in.

The address is a different alleyway than before, and she's out on a nearby street by the time May and Lianelle spot her.

May stalks her through the thin crowd.

"Ciao."

"Oh, you really are more capable than I imagined."

"Yeah. Is there a compromise you like, here?"

"I'm willing to be a well behaved denizen of this dimension if that's acceptable."

"Well, that requires either a lot of trust relative to how much you suck, or policing effort, on my part."

"I can direct you to my truth potion supply?"

"That also requires trust."

"If you have access to someone with the right sort of magic they'd be able to write-up another contract, though unfortunately the author of our contract was the summoner who died after it was signed."

"Right, but this seems like a major outlay of time and effort and magic when I could just bring you back whence you came and abandon you to the tender mercies of those you wronged."

"I assumed you didn't want to murder anyone."

"Yeah, well, guess who screwed up that plan."

[Can the Spring do contracts?]

Can it?

Yep! Less than a day of power for one that will bind someone without access to specific sorts of magic.

[So, yes, but at about one seventh of the cost of a resurrection - where I'm resurrecting not random and especially not particularly objectionable people, I will be resurrecting specifically the people who I think are the best to have alive plus probably some personal sentiment allowance I also super wouldn't spend on her - and also writing airtight magical contracts is not a skill I have.]

[Is it that much more costly than the time we've already spent?]

[I got work done on the plane, and getting Arctic on board mostly only cost money, which I expect to be rolling in as soon as I make it known I can resurrect people. I'm only following up with this specific shitty person in Italy out of all the shitty people in Italy because I feel responsible for the situation; I would like it to stop being a situation efficiently.]

[Could drop her off somewhere remote maybe?]

[I can't get her on an airplane here, she won't have ID. I can just bring her to the Italy of the Spring world.]

[Okay.]

"You think of anything clever while I went on a face journey there?"