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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
Silence.
The acolyte has recovered somewhat, still rubbing at his face and making pathetic little sounds. "Perinixu can't - can't bring back the dead," says the acolyte, still rubbing at his eyes.
The acolyte has recovered somewhat, still rubbing at his face and making pathetic little sounds. "Perinixu can't - can't bring back the dead," says the acolyte, still rubbing at his eyes.
"... Okay," whimpers the acolyte. "You can have your bike back."
He lowers it to the ground and then gets off it, looking like he wants to bolt as soon as humanly possible.
He lowers it to the ground and then gets off it, looking like he wants to bolt as soon as humanly possible.
namesthesky
"Thank you, that will be all," says Aya, dismounting the cloud-pine to approach her bike. She makes a shooing gesture. "You may go."
It seems to be in reasonably good condition, though maybe a bit dirty. It could use a wash. It's got some cargo, which looks random enough and expensive enough to probably be stolen. How nice.
namesthesky
"Hmm - Adarin, can you find out who these objects belong to? I might as well return them to whatever hapless people have most recently been visited by a plague acolyte. And heal anybody who didn't pay up."
prodigal_miser
"I can try," says Adarin. Scry scry scry - "Most of them are from a village nearby, but some others are from further away. Far as I can tell."
namesthesky
"Do you guys object to accompanying me at least to the nearby village? Perhaps I can get them to return the other things to their neighbors."
onthewind
"Maybe we can persuade the people in them to jump ship and go running off to Rae or Perinixu."
namesthesky
"I suspect that might be the case. Healing acolyte shows up with another acolyte and mysterious friends, fixes the sick, clearly has just beat up or scared off plague acolyte, can you say mass conversion?"
And Aya gets on her hoverbike and, when supplied with directions to Adarin's scry result, zooms thataway.
And Aya gets on her hoverbike and, when supplied with directions to Adarin's scry result, zooms thataway.
onthewind
"Heh. It'll be fun!"
Zoom.
There is the village. The people cower when they see Aya on a hoverbike - not because of Aya in particular, but because of the hoverbike.
Zoom.
There is the village. The people cower when they see Aya on a hoverbike - not because of Aya in particular, but because of the hoverbike.
namesthesky
Aya stops the hoverbike and gets off.
"The man who had this vehicle before stole it. It's not his, it's mine, and now I have it back. I'm an acolyte of Perinixu. Does anyone need that kind of help? Who do the stolen objects in the cargo basket belong to?"
"The man who had this vehicle before stole it. It's not his, it's mine, and now I have it back. I'm an acolyte of Perinixu. Does anyone need that kind of help? Who do the stolen objects in the cargo basket belong to?"
Silence.
"... I'm missing an heirloom from my mother," says one little voice eventually, frightened. "A crystal bowl?"
"... I'm missing an heirloom from my mother," says one little voice eventually, frightened. "A crystal bowl?"