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Prime wakes up a day later, takes care of some business that includes checking up on how Cypress's ghost is being treated, making sure ex-demon hunters are not killing anyone, having a brief chat with his father and a hug, and other general administrative and personal affairs. Then, brief meal, and back to sleep.
It's uneventful. Cypress and Ice go to several more restaurants (most of which are pretty, in interesting and unique ways) and return to Prime's home to snuggle and - forget about the events that'll transpire when they get home. Cypress misses Vernaia, he tolerates her being away from him but just gone entirely is - it obviously bothers him. He'd suggest going the way of Prime and spending the next day in sleep, but he can't ask it of his wife. He snuggles her, instead, and they distract each other from the things that are obviously wrong.
Then, completely predictably, Prime wakes up. He checks his mana stores. He gets notes from Cypress and casts the language spell, since it's cheap.
"Ready," he informs, when he has recovered enough from three days of near non-stop sleep to be reasonably awake and functional. He has a spot picked out for the portal, already. He does a bit of writing in his own book of cheat sheets, and then the empty wall by the front door gets - what looks like a painting. Specifically, a painting of the other side of the portal - Pantheon. It looks like a painting, too, not like a photograph. If someone looks closely, they can see what looks to be brush strokes, and little hints of mess here and there.
He touches the portal, murmurs "Pantheon" and then it shifts. To something more - real, lifelike. Like you could step through it to the other side.
"Done. After you?"
darkest_evening
dark_light
"Neat trick," remarks Isabella. "Is the ghost here, will he be able to follow okay?"
darkest_evening
"He is right over there, he'll be following through just fine, I made it very ghost friendly."
dark_light
Isabella decides confirming that yes, it is that, would be a bit much.
She steps through.
She steps through.
onthewind
And there is Idania, floating upside down four feet in the air. Also reading a book.
"Hey, Isabella and magic nap man!" she says, brightly. "And other person I don't know!"
"Hey, Isabella and magic nap man!" she says, brightly. "And other person I don't know!"
prodigal_miser
"Hi," says Cypress, somewhere between amused by the scene and trying not to be bothered by being described by something he technically doesn't have anymore.
dark_light
"This other person is the Adarin alt we were on our way through here to see," explains Isabella. "His name is also Adarin, so for disambiguation, mine is Cypress and the old one is Prime."
namesthesky
"Well, nice to meet you, Prime, I don't look it but I'm one of her," Spring gestures at Isabella, "and my name's Ayabel but you can call me Spring."
onthewind
"And I'm Idania. But so far it's just been me, so - no fancy nicknames, I'm special and unique."
darkest_evening
"Hello," he says, inclining his head. "It's nice to meet you, too."
He does not comment on Idania's upside down status, but he does smile faintly.
He does not comment on Idania's upside down status, but he does smile faintly.
darkest_evening
"Visiting, I am sadly not fulfilling today's weirdness quota, so of course I need to go chat up some literal gods."
onthewind
"Do you want to play a board game with me and Rae? He's a god, I don't think it's weird but other people do."
darkest_evening
Prime glances at Ice and Cypress. "If I'm not needed elsewhere, certainly."
dark_light
"Just - make sure the ghost follows us through the Chamomile portal, and then you can play board games with deities. One deity. Spring, I will give you the full story later if Prime doesn't." Isabella makes for the Chamomile portal.
darkest_evening
"I will tell her the full story," he agrees, reasonably. "And yes, he is following you just fine."
prodigal_miser
As is Cypress.
"Sorry for the lack of small talk," he says to Idania and Spring, "I would just like to get home as soon as possible."
"Sorry for the lack of small talk," he says to Idania and Spring, "I would just like to get home as soon as possible."
onthewind
"Yeah, uh -" Idania glances at Prime, then frowns. She noticed the vaguely guilty look. "Wait, what did you do?"
namesthesky
"Thaaaat may explain the 'ghost' bit? But why would he have a ghost if he is also alive again thanks to her highly useful magic?"
darkest_evening
"He lost his magic in the process of the resurrection and also his daemon. They are going to fix that."