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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
There is a pause.
"Ayabel is long dead," says a confused goddess. "Or - was? You sound - exactly like her."
"Ayabel is long dead," says a confused goddess. "Or - was? You sound - exactly like her."
"... I confess, I didn't believe it was possible," admits Perinixu. "But since it is - welcome back, Ayabel. Thank you, travelers, for returning her."
The goddess takes a few minutes to consider.
"Here you are," she says, and all of Aya's blessings are returned to her. Followed, after more consideration, by being made an acolyte. "I will repay long-term service given by trust in you now. Please do not abuse it."
"Here you are," she says, and all of Aya's blessings are returned to her. Followed, after more consideration, by being made an acolyte. "I will repay long-term service given by trust in you now. Please do not abuse it."
namesthesky
"Thank you. Is it all right with you if I imply to what are probably followers of a plague god that I am back and young again and therefore able to retrieve my hoverbike because of you?"
"You may." Perinixu sounds vaguely pleased with this. "I will say that I have longer considered and finally decided to bring you back, but I trust no one else with this privilege." Pause. "I may at some point ask you to bring others back, as well, other of my acolyte. I will bless you, in return. It would be good to have many more of my trusted acolytes returned so that I might smite Kerxigal where he rots in his domain."
dark_light
"I have a lot of demands on my time, and additionally, the spell does strictly require calling on witch goddesses. Apart from that, though, my limiting factor is herbs."
"I will help with herbs as well as I can," agrees Perinixu. "I will... Tolerate you calling on other goddesses in my domain. Now that there is proof that you may beat death. Might I meet their acolytes, so I might judge them?"
dark_light
"My goddesses don't work like your kind of god. All witches can call on their power. Witches being all female children of previous witches. You're not going to get any closer to the idea of an acolyte for them than me."
namesthesky
"The landscape's changed and I don't have my map. Where would be a good place for me to pick up some holy water?"
namesthesky
Aya goes to the nearest temple, introduces herself as an acolyte to the priests there, is mysterious about how she has appeared, collects vials of water, solicits directions to a restaurant, and then leads her alt, alt's husband, and friend there.
onthewind
It's a pleasant little restaurant. They get strange looks and people recognize that two members of the party are acolytes. They are then given a really nice spot with an excellent view of a waterfall. Aya in particular is treated especially nicely. Not out of fear, but this is Perinixu's domain, they would like to be extremely nice to an acolyte of her.
Adarin and Isabella get strange looks too, for their choices of fashion and Adarin's hair style, but no one comments.
"I wonder how much the world's changed," says Idania, plopping into her seat.
Adarin and Isabella get strange looks too, for their choices of fashion and Adarin's hair style, but no one comments.
"I wonder how much the world's changed," says Idania, plopping into her seat.
onthewind
The waiter is confused, but then names the year.
It's over a hundred years after Aya's death.
Idania whistles. "Guess neither of us have to worry about exes showing up and being awkward."
It's over a hundred years after Aya's death.
Idania whistles. "Guess neither of us have to worry about exes showing up and being awkward."
namesthesky
"I wasn't really worried about that anyway. This does mean I'm going to need to get a new house."
onthewind
"Yeah, me too. Guess I get to pick a new spot for it, then! I will go exploring Rae's domain after we rescue your hoverbike, I can find a place with a nice view. Then I try and play catch up."