"I have been planning for a while to eventually resurrect Urtho. It's important to Leareth, and it might be incredibly valuable to the world, if we can manage getting him more oversight and some useful takeaways from his first life. I was initially planning to do this in a while, maybe years from now.

I'm worried that the Star-Eyed will interpret our retaliation as an act of war and it'll be hard to raise people after it. So I now think we should do it soon, before the retaliation. Leareth's not ready, but it wouldn't be a good idea to raise him anywhere near Leareth anyway."

Vanyel blinks, surprised. Eventually nods. "That - makes sense. It would be really good to have him back; it seems so unfair, how his life ended, and - ever since I read his journals I've been wishing I could have met him." He frowns. "What part isn't Leareth ready for?" 

"When I brought it up with him he had a ton of understandably mixed feelings, I think mostly around - what a profoundly different page he and Urtho are on, and how it's likely the things that'd make a reunion emotionally fulfilling for him will never happen. If it were me I'd also be angry with Urtho, for murdering millions of people to get to me even if it was half an accident, but I think it's less that than I'd have expected? Not none, though. And that was before he was murdered in a fashion that destroyed his immortality method and now has lots more mixed feelings about most things."

"Leareth is - really good at not being angry with people for, er, thinking what he's doing is monstrous and fighting him about it. I guess he just acknowledges a lot of his plans are horrible, and - he thinks it's justified but he doesn't hold other people to a standard where he expects them to see that? He was never even defensive when we talked about things, he - thought it was really reasonable for me to do my best to kill him, he just seemed a bit sad and was methodically trying to convince me even though I don't think he ever really thought it'd work." 

Nod. "Well, I'm not going to do it without letting him know but I'd rather he not have to track any of the logistics. If you were raising Urtho what arrangements would you want to make? - we can Geas him not to do any violence if we need to, though he might take it poorly."

"That makes sense, sticking a geas on him wouldn't start us off on the best terms. I...guess we could bring him back in your demiplane, since you already have it? Which is also rude, but at least it's temporary, and we can gauge what sort of state he's in and whether he seems likely to react violently. My read is that he - isn't the sort of person who likes harming anyone, but, I don't know." 

"That's the impression I got, too, I think. I'm only going to have my demiplane for another two weeks - hmmm, I guess now that diamonds are going spare I could make it permanent -"

"I can make you a diamond! Leareth thinks he can eke another efficiency upgrade out of the spell, and after that he's going to start working on an artifact design I can use to scaffold part of it, which would make diamonds even easier. Seems like a permanent demiplane where only divine magic works is a pretty useful place for you to have." 

"Yeah." He frowns to himself. "Though it's going to be less cost-effective this way, since I used the lower-level spell to make it....well, I'd be grateful for a resurrection-grade diamond and I'll figure out how to use it to make the demiplane permanent."

"Resurrection or True Resurrection grade? I should have a stack of both in my workshop, I wasn't sure who to give them to here." 

"True Resurrection grade, for this. - it's actually a tiny bit less, if you accidentally made one that's just shy of True Resurrection grade at some point."

"Oh, interesting, I didn't realize there were tiny discrepancies like that. I'll get you one."

He pauses. "...How's Leareth doing? It - looked like you'd done something about, um, when I asked you to keep an eye on him. He still seems a bit fragile, though..." 

"I took him on a date in Aktun. Thank you for your advice about that, it was helpful."

"You took him on a date? Aww." Also, wow, that was not what Vanyel had been expecting to come out of that conversation at all. 

"I think it'd be really good for him to spend some time with you, too, if you're up for it. He has some Gate locations in Aktun now if you want to ask him what it was like."

"Of course. I'll ask him about it when I have a chance." 

"Thank you. We're - extraordinarily lucky to have you. Did I show you any of our work on the national life insurance program?"

"No! It's such a good idea, though. Leareth did tell me a little about it." 

"It'll be so good for people! It will also make recruiting for my personal guard lots harder, but, so are the struggles of life."

"I'm sure you can figure something out. It'd at least still be prestigious, I assume, being in your Guard. Our King has no trouble recruiting his personal Guard and having them be really good, and we don't - haven't - had resurrection at all." 

"I'm sure we will figure it out." And he dismisses him and gets back to work and, when not making progress on his work, sketches plans for a prospective permanent demiplane.

Leareth is not having the best of mornings. 

He could absolutely override his mood, note to himself that it's unhelpful and not well calibrated to feel stressed about leaving his room - it's not like the room is perceptibly safer than the rest of the Dome, he's put a few wards on it but not especially good ones since casting in here is still challenging.

But - it seems like maybe a loadbearing component of the usual process he can follow to dissolve away fear when it's unhelpful, is that he can't permanently die. And, while that's not really false right now, as long as he has people who want to raise him from the dead again and have a reliable supply of diamonds, that feels a lot more conditional than his hindbrain would prefer.

It's probably expected to feel off-balance for a while after what happened; it still hasn't been a week, even, and he still has a lot of processing to do. Leareth calls a servant for breakfast and then stays in his room and attempts to do that. 

Vanyel swings by just before lunch. "Hey - the pharaoh suggested I should ask you to see Aktun, apparently it's very amazing and I would like it. If you're up for it, I would love a lunch break." 

That's an excellent idea! Leareth is absolutely up for Gating to Aktun, showing Vanyel around a bit on the trolleys, taking him to lunch at the place with the mini pizzas, and then coaxing him to stay for a tour of the Museum of Measurement, which he shows Vanyel around with some proprietary pride. 

Vanyel is feeling pretty pleased with himself by the time they head back, halfway through the afternoon. Leareth is a lot more relaxed in Abadar's realm of the afterlife. Which is, in fact, amazing, and he can especially see why Leareth feels so at home there.