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The Earthlings native and adopted stay in Marlatia, hiding uneventfully in the guest room, for several days. Isabella immortalizes king and queen both when they sneak her to a sufficiently large, empty, and unoccupied room to do it in. When Adarin has enough mana he makes mirror pairs for each of their majesties to contact their counterpart - Isabella's portal bag is kind of accumulating mirrors at this point. And when he has more mana still, Iobel finds a slightly-bigger-than-door-sized plank and a set of hinges and some screws and combines all these objects on the ceiling of a lockable room on the first floor but out of the way, currently serving as storage for a lot of broken musical instruments that someone once probably identified as probably repairable. This plank gets a portal on it, and the Earthlings go home.
After catching up on business - and allowing time to recover mana, again - and getting their Marlatian alts a laptop each, and putting a router and chargers within easy reach of the portal on their side, which is also on a sheet of wood but is kept in their basement propped up against a wall -
Isabella snuggles up to her husband and suggests searching the planes for more of themselves.
dark_light
dark_light
"I wouldn't have known either, but sometimes across worlds there are several of the same person, and I've already met another one of me. She looks like me, but I suspected you might be one too even though you don't look the same. The name's a hint. The other one is named Iobel."
dark_light
"Same basic personality, eerie parallel details, different life circumstances. Me and Iobel - both clumsy-till-she-fixed-it notebook-using magic users with similarly-named parents and the same face. If I write down the three questions will you know what I mean and be able to tell me what they are without looking at the paper?"
namesthesky
"What do I want, what do I have, and how can I best use the latter to get the former," recites Ayabel. She holds her hand out for the paper. And smiles when she reads it. "Well. Hello."
prodigal_miser
"It would have been incredibly awkward if we'd resurrected you and you'd been nothing like Isabella," says Adarin, amused. "'Oh, uh - okay, well, oops. Congrats on being alive, we're not going to put you back for no reason, hope you like immortality.'"
namesthesky
"Oh! You can just - do that as many times as you like, then? I'll... get out of the way? How does this work?"
dark_light
Relieved to have her alt's approval, Isabella nods. "Yeah, I need space and more birds but I have everything else in my bag."
namesthesky
Ayabel gets up and makes her way out of the clear area, checking to see if Perinixu's blessings - such as the obvious one of grace - persist.
Unfortunately, they don't. But she can just go ask Perinixu to re-bless and acolyte her.
Raezenoth continues sitting and watching and not making any particular verbal demands of Isabella, though he keeps watching. Obviously expecting her to resurrect Idania.
Raezenoth continues sitting and watching and not making any particular verbal demands of Isabella, though he keeps watching. Obviously expecting her to resurrect Idania.
dark_light
When Aya's out of the way Isabella starts the diagram again. "Sweetie, can you give her the 101 while I'm diagramming?"
prodigal_miser
"Yup!" agrees Adarin. "Okay, this is going to sound incredibly strange but - there is more than just this world. There are countless planes of existence where different people live with different rules of magic and different histories and cultures. Species, too, but we keep finding humans. With me so far?"
namesthesky
"In my original world there were pockets of magic - this was the only magic. Things that entered these pockets would have random things happen to them. In my case I was lucky - I got out of the chains that I'd been in and healed from the injuries I picked up in the course of falling in. And then I started walking trying to find a way out, and I found a door. My prospects even if I got out of the magic more or less intact weren't very good because it hadn't taken the slave mark off my heel -"
It occurs to her to look at her heel, at this time.
She laughs to find it completely untattooed.
"Oh, I like this resurrection spell. And beyond the door was a magic intelligent bar that claimed to touch every world, and in that bar I met Idania, and when she opened the door to leave, it led to this world. I went home with her after borrowing a little money, doing arbitrage with the bar, and collecting a few nifty things to bring back."
It occurs to her to look at her heel, at this time.
She laughs to find it completely untattooed.
"Oh, I like this resurrection spell. And beyond the door was a magic intelligent bar that claimed to touch every world, and in that bar I met Idania, and when she opened the door to leave, it led to this world. I went home with her after borrowing a little money, doing arbitrage with the bar, and collecting a few nifty things to bring back."
prodigal_miser
"... Okay that was not our method of transportation at all. My type of magic lets me travel to other planes, or er - worlds, and I found Isabella on another plane, and then we decided to help each other out with our different magic types, and ended up falling in love and getting married. We decided to try and start a plague of utopias now that both of our native homes are on the route to - at least being way better, if not outright utopias. Yet.
"Have you seen this bar since? I've never heard of that before in my life, it sounds fascinating!"
"Have you seen this bar since? I've never heard of that before in my life, it sounds fascinating!"
namesthesky
"Neither I nor Idania nor anyone else I heard of ever found it again, which I consider a terrible pity. She seems to be more accomplished than I ever got. I made it to acolyte status and I like to think I helped people, but I don't have anything like that under my belt..."
prodigal_miser
"Well, congrats, because now you have the rest of forever to match her. Or try, anyway."
dark_light
"I'm going to stop for the time being after this resurrection unless you can source me more materials in the next couple of days," says Isabella, "because this was actually originally intended to be a stop en route to a plane that has one of Adarin in it, and he's probably going to want his dad back. But I can come back if we leave portals, bring more ingredients and nip up anybody who is particularly urgent, and in the long term other members of my species can do the same thing when it's time to open up about the existence of multiple worlds."
Isabella places the last herbs and steps out of the diagram and summons more birds.
Isabella places the last herbs and steps out of the diagram and summons more birds.
onthewind
And then there is Idania. She looks around, confused.
"Oooookay. Um. Hi? This must be the afterlife, hi Aya, hi Rae. Hi people I don't know that are probably going to judge me for my sins." She glances down at herself. "Well at least I am pretty again. Judge away, I regret jack shit!"
"Oooookay. Um. Hi? This must be the afterlife, hi Aya, hi Rae. Hi people I don't know that are probably going to judge me for my sins." She glances down at herself. "Well at least I am pretty again. Judge away, I regret jack shit!"
namesthesky
"Hi, Idania. This is a version of me from yet another world. She can resurrect the dead."