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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
onthewind
"I can live up a mountain, if we can build a house there. If it's near Rae's domain or even in it I'll go there and we can be neighbors! It'll be fun. Like old times, when you first arrived."
onthewind
"Hmmm," says Idania. She retrieves a vial of holy sand and addresses it. "Rae, are there any mountains that border you and Perinixu? We're going to have the visitors put a portal there and if it's convenient Aya and I could be neighbors and live there." Pause. ".... Awww. Awww. I will hug you, you are adorable. Thanks!"
Vial of sand goes back to its place. "There isn't, but there's one by Perinixu's and Rae will tweak his borders to help."
Vial of sand goes back to its place. "There isn't, but there's one by Perinixu's and Rae will tweak his borders to help."
onthewind
Idania giggles. "We are! I wonder how long it'll take people to start thinking we're a couple again. It's funny every time."
onthewind
"Nope. I mean, I guess there might be some weird gods out there, but - no. It would be really weird to date my god."
namesthesky
"It would be so weird. People have thought it of Idania and Rae before, though. I once had an embarrassingly long conversation in which someone who vaguely knew Idania kept referring to her 'boyfriend' and I couldn't figure out if there was a boyfriend she hadn't told me about, a fling someone had read too much into, or a metaphor for her favorite hat. The poor fellow was very embarrassed when I figured it out and corrected him."
onthewind
Idania giggles. "That was funny. The sea bitch actually accused Rae of - some very dirty things that involved me and he was just so confused."
onthewind
"Yeah. Best friends, I would say, if I had to put it in normal-people terms. I'm pretty sure we are the strangest acolyte-god pair of all time. It's fun!"
prodigal_miser
"Well, I'm not really sure what the standard is. New to the world, and all. What's the standard?"
onthewind
"Work for years for a god to trust you with increasing levels of power and for them to take notice of you specifically. If you're devoted and lucky, after years of work, bam, acolytehood."
namesthesky
"Domestic abuse. At the time one of a small number of unsolved problems in Perinixu's domain."
namesthesky
"...It just occurred to me to wonder if acolytes still eat for free in restaurants. I suppose my IOU is probably good even if the answer is no. We'll find out."
Acolytes do still eat free in restaurants, it turns out.
Next stop:
Hoverbike.
Acolytes do still eat free in restaurants, it turns out.
Next stop:
Hoverbike.
prodigal_miser
Adarin scries for it again, finds its location, and then starts directing them.
"That way," he says, and he points. "Or nap first, so I am combat ready?"
"That way," he says, and he points. "Or nap first, so I am combat ready?"
dark_light
"Adarin's magic has a limited, renewable-especially-with-sleep fuel to it, so he'll be more useful in getting your bike back if he naps. I assume this world has hotels, even though you guys don't have your mountaintop houses set up yet?"