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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
darkest_evening
"In summary? How well you work with him, how he feels about your actions and opinions in general, how effectively you are helpful to the world, and, of course, how he feels about you." Pause. "Forty-three point eight is an extremely high number in the scale we're using. If you hadn't guessed."
darkest_evening
"Not to worry," drawls the third wheel, "I will not be joining you, I have some work to do before I am put to sleep."
darkest_evening
"That would defy the entire purpose of magically induced sleep to speed up your return to your plane, certainly. I'll refrain."
Off he goes to do - stuff. And things.
Off he goes to do - stuff. And things.
prodigal_miser
"Okay," he laughs. "Let's see... First, you get a point for being sentient and also alive. Everyone gets that one, because there is a such thing as negative numbers and I don't like reducing people to that just because they personally annoy me. Zero's easier to work with, one is slightly nicer." Pause. "Anyway, seven point six for intellect and being part of the church of common sense. Twelve because you have damn good work on pointing that sort of thing in the right direction and - actually sticking to it when you had the chance to enact it. Three point five for being systematic and organized. Three point one for having magic, one point one for having skill with it, and most importantly, four point seven for using it, properly, for good things. Two because you're doing all of the fantastic things you're doing in the - right way. That probably sounds like 'doing good things' but I mean - you could be doing good things in the wrong sort of way. And you aren't."
He looks embarrassed. "This next one's a bit weird to explain because there are lots and lots of numbers that lead to its sum and it's also kind of emotional rather than entirely logical, but - seven point four. Because we're married and there are various reasons for why that has occurred. I don't even know how I'd begin to explain that one, it would take some time. And then, you got an added one point four because you resurrected me and I dislike being dead."
He looks embarrassed. "This next one's a bit weird to explain because there are lots and lots of numbers that lead to its sum and it's also kind of emotional rather than entirely logical, but - seven point four. Because we're married and there are various reasons for why that has occurred. I don't even know how I'd begin to explain that one, it would take some time. And then, you got an added one point four because you resurrected me and I dislike being dead."
dark_light
"How do you come by these values?" asks Isabella, who has written them all down. "Why is having magic three point one instead of, say, three, or six, or something?"
prodigal_miser
"Comparison of - how important things are in my head in relation to other things. If you're curious, the measuring point here is the token point for being alive and sentient. Because I had to pick something to measure this all by."