"No spending half her - or should it be his - childhood in Tampa -"

"Yes, yes, whatever, get undressed -"

"I don't think we have to decide right now -"

"I bet it's only a Lári alt if I've very impulsive about it."

"I love you."

"I know!"

She reads the report and does not teleport to the bottom of the ocean because she is not indestructible. She just curls up and waits for the next plot hook. It comes in the form of a letter from Taylor's parents, who heard about the resurrection and are wondering - 

"We can probably just do Taylor and Ahmad from the moment of the eclipse, rather than trying to undo whatever a thousand eclipsing psions did to them," she says to Isabella.

"Does magic rock resurrection allow for that?"

"I was assuming it worked off the moment the basement-dweller's grabbed from, and that doesn't have to be moment of death."

"That's not a bad guess but I don't think it's been tried and from the wish wording it might not be clear whether it can do that until someone does try it."

"If it doesn't do that what are we likely to be dealing with -"

"...they are equally likely to have been affected by mage stuff first and most uncontrolled mage stuff just kills you. A lot of psion stuff is unpleasant but not harmful, some of it's not even unpleasant. But if they got hit by something harmful they could be missing memories - the wish wording probably means that's fixed all by itself - or have scrambled cognition like a less precise version of Boots's aphasias thing, or something like that."

"What happens if we try it standard, are they both all right?"

"There's nothing obvious but there could be something we don't notice for a couple hours."

"How likely do you think that is?"

"Don't know, but it's probably still worth answering the question in the general case, I bet somebody somewhere has a list of people who are willing to be the subject of experiments like that especially if it gets them bumped up the resurrection priority list..."

"Yeah, what's Cube doing for people who had late-stage dementia or whatever?"

"Let's ask!"

Email.

People keep all of their memories and don't come back brain-damaged.

That seems likely to fix psion damage too.

I'd expect so, yes. No one on Cube had magic damage but I can't think why it wouldn't handle it.

When's good for bringing back a couple more people? Possibly Liz too if scheduling's enough of a problem, we can do all three out of neighborhood.

Can you add them to one of the magic rock's handling lists? I think they're in Warp right now putting Vulcan back, so you'd have to meet them there, but you could easily do two now and one later, unless it needs some kind of special handling.

Can do, thanks.

Of course. Let us know if you need anything else.