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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!"
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Isabella sits down hard on the ground surrounded by goose blood and ashes and looks supremely pleased with herself.
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"Thought you weren't supposed to call me that...?" says a confused Veron, surprised but hugging back. "How did I get here? Why are there hugs?"
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"You were dead," says Adarin, choking back tears. He looks at Isabella, then gives his father a squeeze and departs to go scoop her up and kiss her.
"You did it you lovely woman," he breathes, laughing.
"You did it you lovely woman," he breathes, laughing.
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Ooh, scooping! Kissing!
"I did I did I did," she trills, "I'm amaaaaazing."
"I did I did I did," she trills, "I'm amaaaaazing."
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Adarin laughs. "You are!"
He puts her down, looking at her affectionately, and then gets to explaining to his dad what is going on.
"Dad, so, um - this is my wife, Isabella, she can resurrect the dead as of this afternoon. You are the first person she has brought back."
He puts her down, looking at her affectionately, and then gets to explaining to his dad what is going on.
"Dad, so, um - this is my wife, Isabella, she can resurrect the dead as of this afternoon. You are the first person she has brought back."
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"It's been - five years? Six? Fuck it, years are so hard to measure ever since we moved here, I'm so confused - a while! It's been a while!"
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"Excuse me," pipes up a female possum that has gone unnoticed in the reunion. "I'm confused. So very confused, who am I?"
"... Talking possum," mutters Veron. "Adarin's married, we are somewhere weird. I think I'm very confused, too, talking possum."
"... Talking possum," mutters Veron. "Adarin's married, we are somewhere weird. I think I'm very confused, too, talking possum."
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"Oh, uh, welcome to my world, here people have daemons, that is apparently yours!"
"Hello!" Path says to the possum.
"Hello!" Path says to the possum.
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"Hello," says the possum, slowly.
"I think that was supposed to help with the confusion but I am just more confused," says Veron.
"I think that was supposed to help with the confusion but I am just more confused," says Veron.
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Adarin gently explains what has happened while Veron is dead. He includes an explanation of planar travel, daemons, Isabella, witches, and a brief history lesson.
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"Okay," his father replies, stunned. "I - will... digest that. All of that."
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"I'm sorry for the culture shock," Isabella says. "There wasn't any reasonable way to do this someplace more familiar."
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"Right. Okay. And you are married now." Pause. He smiles a bit. "You look happy."
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"You should name your daemon," says Adarin. "It's a bit of a shock to get one, but I like having daemons."