"Where do people who need that go?"

"The Liminal Glades of Arborea will happily take her. Perhaps the Blessed Fields of Elysium. I do not know which she would rather accept. We will wait for her agreement."

"Okay. I'm glad Truth noticed."

"Yes! If not for Truth, we would never have found that she needed healing. Thank you, Lintalai, and please thank Truth. I will console the poor creature who has allowed fear to overtake him. Please, sleep well."

And if there's nothing else she needs from him, Mahli goes over to comfort the cowering figure.

Lintalai goes to relay this thanks to Truth. And pat it.

"That's sweet of him. Angels are really easy to please. I guess I am, too. Thanks for handling the evil wizard."

"I didn't really do anything but you're welcome."

"You told the other wizards to do something instead of talking about magic! That's all they do, talk magic. That's why there are so many evil wizards, you know, the others still talk to them and lend them books."

"I guess that would reduce the disincentive. She was being discreet though."

"I didn't talk to her, but evil wizards are pretty obvious. No one really minds evil people if they don't hurt the people they like- unless they're good, I guess, and most people aren't. Arcadia's supposed to be different, but I don't buy it. Everywhere is always the same because people are people. Not angels, angels are all good."

"I think I'm good but I guess nobody can tell because I don't have a soul. Can you tell?"

"-I don't know about that. I think I could tell if you took me to Amenta to load up new information, but I can't tell from here."

"Huh. I will try to let you be there at some point, how long do you need?"

"Oh, it's not about how much time- we would need a ritual where some wizards put their knowledge in me, same as how I was made. It'd change my personality, but then you'd have a mimir who knows more. Or you could find a mimir someone made more recently- that one would probably know more about Amenta as it is today."

"Oh. I like the personality you have now."

"That's nice of you to say! If we find a newer mimir, maybe we won't need to try to change me. I can't- find you newer mimirs, though, because I only know things that were true when I was made. It's a circular problem. Maybe you can go back to the person who sold me, see if any of those are newer."

"I guess but I don't think I will do that right now."

"You know, that's fair. Hope my answers helped you out. Sleep well, with evil-wizard-free dreams."

"Good night, Truth."

And she goes to bed.

Lintalai continues her lessons. She continues to make some progress, but not a significant amount, over the next week.

As Truth promised, it isn't long before they announce that they're ready to send someone. By the end of that week, despite Yllafina's absence (or perhaps because they are no longer trying to be cautious, and careful, and prudent), Daernir tells her excitedly that they want to send through a khamotzo. An angel is likely to be the most cooperative, and it is the only kind of khamotzo that is easily accessible, trustworthy, and resembles a human-

"And Mahli is still floating outside. What do you think? If we want to find someone else, it might take more time. This way, we could have a portal really soon."

"Let me go ask Truth if it's safe but that sounds good to me!"

She goes and asks Truth if it's safe for Mahli to go to Amenta.

"...yeah! It's safe for Mahli. It's probably not safe for anyone else right now, not without a portal. It could put him anywhere, and I can't tell where because I can't see future things."

"Oh, that will make it hard for him to find my family."

"Yeah. I don't know if it's good for that. Angels don't have anything that makes them good at finding if they could be planets away. You should ask the wizards more about it. Take me with you if you want. None of these ones are evil, yet."