"...might be easier not. More importantly, we send them home and then it's instantly known we have resurrection - I guess we could claim that it's high-metabolism and only the Ents can do it -"

"It will take a year to find out if the Ents'll cooperate with that story."

"And therefore take anyone else a year to verify it!"

"Do you have a plan for in a year if the Ents won't in fact play along?"

"...if we're still not ready to make it obvious we're getting help from somewhere in a year, that's all the more reason not to wait on resurrection until we're ready to make it clear we're getting help -"

"...also I know Brent was working on lie detection and I do not know if it came in before he died."

"'Hey! You died about ten years ago, the power to bring you back just came in just now - human mages can't do it, we don't think, but there was a catastrophe in Arda and everyone eclipsed, and that included this species called Ents, they're trees, and have more metabolic capacity, and of course we asked if they could get resurrection to click. So. Welcome back to the world of the living, here's a compensation package.'"

"All right, he definitely doesn't have it sophisticated enough to catch that. I love you."

"Love you. Shall I have Matirin come over? He should probably be invisible and immediately go away, if I want to sell that story."

"Yeah, probably. Nobody has any extrasensory that'll catch him at least."

And he comes by! <Hello, Sibyl! Where are you waking them up?>

[Ask Maitimë, I don't even know where they are now.]

"I'll take us there -" pop - "but we are trying to have a non-multiverse explanation for resurrection, so if you can be sneaky -"

<I can be sneaky.>

"Perfect." And she gives names. 

And he goes invisible and inaudible and then wakes up all eleven in a swift whisk-whisk-whisk of an invisible tail and then pops out.

Brent is as it happens the first to ask what's going on.

She will deliver the same explanation she gave Isabella! (She had, in fact, at one point asked the Ents if they could do resurrection.)

The kids are upset about the decade gap. Oliver and Summer start crying.

Understandably. There are computers if they want to get in touch with their families.

Most of them do that. They also want to know what happened with Maira and the whole join or (apparently) die thing.

Maira is dead now. Liz helped her break Melkor out. Melkor is dead too.

...so where's Liz?

"...might face charges for a couple murders she committed - not you, Maira hid that from her - so we're still figuring out how to resurrect her."

Okay.

Where are Taylor and Ahmad -?