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Adarin is shaken awake one morning by a fiancée who is about five thousand times perkier than she usually is at odd, dark-outside hours.
"Wake up wake up wake up!"
dark_light
dark_light
Isabella approves entirely.
Eventually the reception is over!
And now it is their wedding night!
What ever might they do with it?
Eventually the reception is over!
And now it is their wedding night!
What ever might they do with it?
prodigal_miser
Well, for one, kiss each other.
Then Adarin will let her know that he has invented some interesting spells and has a mostly full store of mana. He hopes she likes them, they are just for her.
Then Adarin will let her know that he has invented some interesting spells and has a mostly full store of mana. He hopes she likes them, they are just for her.
dark_light
Well. Well. This is fascinating. Are these untried spells? They should experiment. Can't let magical inventions go untested.
prodigal_miser
No, that would be irresponsible. They can just go on testing them! For science!
(It will be a very nice night.)
(It will be a very nice night.)
prodigal_miser
He loves her, too. So very much. He is going to be very dedicated to showing her how much.
(A lot. The answer is a lot.)
(A lot. The answer is a lot.)
dark_light
It is two months (and many portals and a staffing overhaul and numerous immortalizations) later when -
Well, this time it's at least a civilized hour, not six in the morning. It is in fact two in the afternoon.
"I DID IT THE ALETHIOMETER SAYS I DID IT I HAVE IT RIGHT THIS TIME GODDESSES ALL I HAVE IT" hollers Isabella from her workroom upstairs.
prodigal_miser
Adarin declines to holler. They have rings that talk to each other. "By 'it,'" asks Adarin, taking stairs three at a time, "do you mean resurrection?"
prodigal_miser
He briefly wonders if he can teleport to get upstairs faster, but then he is already there while he is doing math in his head about how to make it work.
"What do you need?" he asks, breathless and excited.
"What do you need?" he asks, breathless and excited.
dark_light
"Oh goddesses a list of herbs as long as my arm and the poem's soooo long and I have to tweak the scansion to incorporate the resurrectee's name on a per-occasion basis and there's two different parts where I have to sacrifice things, not just one, although I'll be able to do birds this time it doesn't have to be deer, and the diagram will be so fucking huge but it will work."
prodigal_miser
Adarin giggles, and then his wife is scooped up into a hug.
"You're amazing, that sounds like an utter nightmare. What herbs, can I help with the diagram in any way - I will go fetch things while you diagram, what do you need me to do?"
"You're amazing, that sounds like an utter nightmare. What herbs, can I help with the diagram in any way - I will go fetch things while you diagram, what do you need me to do?"
dark_light
"Okay I have some of this already but -" She writes up a shopping list and then adds, "Will your sister want to be here? I'm assuming here the first person we should get is your dad?"
prodigal_miser
"She will want to be here if we're resurrecting dad. Which I want to do first," says Adarin, grinning. He takes the list and reads it over. "Think I can ply your clan to hand over herbs if I throw cool magic things at them? I can make another portal bag, I could grab Ana while I'm there."
dark_light
"The clan will have the herbs, Mom can get them for you and nobody'll blink, it's not that much of any one thing. Scaling up I'll probably want an actual deal with a - commercial basil farm and whatnot, I guess - but for the first one no need."
prodigal_miser
He nods. "Then I will go get them, along with Ana - should it not be immediately? Do you need time to get the diagram right, or - or to fix the poem for his name or something...?"
prodigal_miser
"Okay," he agrees, laughing a little. He twirls Isabella around and kisses her with delight. "I love you, I love you, I love you so much you are amazing."
prodigal_miser
Kiss. "I would go on about how great you are but resurrection! I will be back soon, I'm teleporting there, because resurrection."
dark_light
"Don't trip over things while you're averting your eyes from naked witches! I will go start drawing."
And she scoops up a large bag of fine ash and goes into the backyard.
And she scoops up a large bag of fine ash and goes into the backyard.