"Undoing mind control?"

"Yes, but it would take plausibly years to get usable and it would really help to know more about it."

Nod.

"I can tell you more about what tipped me off to the mind control if that would help, though if it takes years, a different plan might be preferable."

"I think more information is worth having whether or not the psions are going to psion at it."

"That seems reasonable. The most immediately obvious piece of evidence that Lianelle's mind had been tampered with was that she didn't remember her wife at all. Later, I realized that she's also missing quite a lot of her memories of me, which paints a picture of her being cut off from emotional connections other than the one she's formed with May. Lianelle was also far more deferential to May than I'd seen her be with anyone - she agreed to stay with her rather than go and run dungeons extremely easily, which is wildly out of character for her. She also seemed uninterested in having her memories restored."

"You're from the ninth century and you're cool with a woman having a wife?"

"Yes? Lianelle wasn't exactly proper before she found Katia either."

"Wow. Okay."

"I take it that such behavior is still considered rather out of the ordinary now?"

"Depends where you are in the world. But it's a historically recent development even here and this country was an early adopter of same sex marriage."

"Is it also past the second millennium here?"

"It's 2034. Eclipse is earlier."

"Oh, is there a reason I missed for why woman getting married isn't basically harmless that explains why it took so long to be allowed?"

"...religion? I'm not a historian."

"We don't have an exact analogue to this. I guess it's sort of comparably controversial for subs to marry subs and doms to marry doms but it's never been impossible to just have one of them lie. Obligatory at times, even, back when people didn't think women could be doms or men could be subs."

"Well, it seemed to help some with Lianelle's insistence on seducing men to her bed and I've never found religion a particularly good guide to make decisions by anyways."

"I'm gonna start putting away the board games, I don't think they're getting played today."

Lifeline will help.

And so will Isabella's Lucien.

Isabella just fell on the floor and it's not even a multiperson job to begin with so she just taps her cane on the ground thoughtfully. "Can you explain more about the spell that got you here?" she asks Lucian of Aragon.

"It's supposed to take you to a world with allies, and it's capable of returning you to the world you last were in. There are two uses left and it's only one person each time, so we'll have to be really careful who we send."

"Two uses left? It's - consumable charges or something? I mean, if Lifeline works across worlds - I can check that, if the spell doesn't itself take too long to cast or take effect - we can get more use out of it that way, but it's - weird that it's so limited use."

"There are rubies on it that get consumed - I'm not sure if it's just those rubies or some other magic they are involved in. It can be cast in a couple of seconds and takes effect instantly."

"Then I'll be able to check if Lifeline'll be able to pull people across if we send him first, that's within my precog range."

"Should I be buying some labgrown rubies to see if they work as charges?"