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It takes them a while - they are quite busy holding each other - but eventually in spite of the perpetual darkness in the sky, they realize they're exhausted. It's been a long day. The helpful mage and her husband offer them a place to sleep, but that place turns out to be inside a tent. With two other people. Two other newly married people.
Isabella and Adarin decide the better option is to go with her hammock. It involves Isabella almost entirely on top of her husband, but neither of them mind. Snuggles are recommended after death and subsequent resurrection, and trauma from same. Adarin's still a bit shivery and occasionally uncoordinated post-magic loss, but he can hold his wife just fine. Snuggles are provided for both parties, and eventually they both fall asleep, suspended in the air by cloud-pine.
prodigal_miser
dark_light
"Okay, but we could keep the unpleasantness to a minimum. Probably would have helped with Edarial and Iobel too, to be honest, although Spring was perfectly friendly from the get-go."
darkest_evening
"If you'd started out by bringing me back from the dead, there would have been no shield bubble at all."
dark_light
"Well, obviously, because if we'd started with resurrecting you from the dead you'd have been a seriously woozy non-mage, as we now know because my Adarin is serving as test subject," says Isabella testily.
darkest_evening
"Which I am extremely sorry for and will genuinely work diligently to fixing. I was going to go take some questionable drugs to sleep more, but I thought it would be kinder to offer you a room in my home first. Considering."
dark_light
"That would be more comfortable than hammocking in the sky again. I can put you to sleep in a not particularly questionable manner if you're willing, that's pure verse."
darkest_evening
"Okay. Then - yes, if two days is safely possible."
He does not look comfortable with this, but he is sucking it up because he kind of owes Isabella and his alt after the whole - accidental murder thing.
He does not look comfortable with this, but he is sucking it up because he kind of owes Isabella and his alt after the whole - accidental murder thing.
dark_light
"Well, I'd recommend eating and getting some water after about a day, but apart from that there shouldn't be any disaster."
darkest_evening
"Mm. A day, I wake up to eat, drink, and use the privy, and then you put me under for another day?"
darkest_evening
He retrieves two keys, and holds them out to his two new guests. "Feel free to raid my food. If you'd like, I can also hand you money to buy what you'd like."
prodigal_miser
Adarin takes one key and inspects it. It looks like it's made of glass and only vaguely shaped like a key at all.
"... Sure," he says, because he can't scry it to figure out how it works. "Money for food sounds fine."
"... Sure," he says, because he can't scry it to figure out how it works. "Money for food sounds fine."
darkest_evening
"In that if it's on your person, you can enter my house." He glances at Lynn. "It'll also only work for the two of you, by the way. Because 'magic,'" he adds, dryly. "As you would put it."
darkest_evening
"Thank you for your services, Lynn. Er, ghost-Adarin, what would you -" Pause. "He would like to have a mage play cards with him or something, to alleviate boredom. He says if it's not Lynn the only people that come to mind are Zeviana and - someone named Xiara?"
dark_light
"A Xiara came to Chamomile a while ago. With some ghosts. I don't know if she'd still be alive, here, and there isn't yet a complete portal chain to let her visit."
darkest_evening
"Mm. I don't know anyone of that name and I know just about every mage here. Ghosts don't interact well with mirrors. Well, it was an idea. I'll see if I can find someone, regardless."
darkest_evening
The elderly alt doesn't think it would be a good idea to say 'you're welcome,' so he doesn't. But he does nod.
"Now, inside, to hand you money, embrace my inner glutton by eating, and then sleeping for another day."
"Now, inside, to hand you money, embrace my inner glutton by eating, and then sleeping for another day."