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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
onthewind
"Ooo, oo, I could then explore the world! That's exciting, I'd love to explore the world! Yours, too, but I was being polite and not tackling you to give me world-access."
namesthesky
"Is your world good for tourism? Should we go check it out, since there's already a portal?"
darkest_evening
"It's reasonably good for tourism, though I recommend waiting a year or two for the ex-demon hunters to settle down a bit and for Kystle to be more settled. The world itself is nice, though."
He doesn't say why it's nice now. He didn't work for five hundred years with people he hated for nothing.
He doesn't say why it's nice now. He didn't work for five hundred years with people he hated for nothing.
darkest_evening
"Not large swaths, but there are sick. Why," he asks, grinning, "can you help with that?"
namesthesky
"I'm a healing goddess's acolyte. I can heal pretty much any disease with a touch." She holds up a hand. "I'm not the only one, so Perinixu's domain is well in hand there, and visiting the neighbors and curing their adherents is a good way to start a fight, but you don't have any gods, do you?"
namesthesky
"Is there any reason I shouldn't haul in a large quantity of holy water and see if I can get a satellite domain for Perinixu started across planar borders while I'm at it?"
namesthesky
"She's a healing goddess. She likes things tidy - some people find her nitpicky about it, but she only imposes the requirements on people who are actually in her service. Places that are part of her domain are places where she can send her physical form, if she has one at that time, and generate new holy water - water is her specifically, it depends on the deity, Rae does holy sand - and issue blessings and so on. It also has slow terrain shift effects. In Perinixu's case, highlands with plenty of springs."
darkest_evening
"Hm. That's - doable, but fair warning, New Kystle's tidelocked. I don't know if that'll cause problems or not. You might be better off snagging an unclaimed part of Kystle, it's currently being resettled after terraforming. Lots of free space to grab, and no problem with tidelocking."
namesthesky
"I may as well try both if Perinixu's up for it. Is there a way to get holy water to Kystle?"
darkest_evening
"Well, I could put a portal from here to there, or you could go to New Kystle and take the portal from there to Kystle."
namesthesky
"The existing portal chain would be fine, I just wasn't sure if there already was one. Perinixu, do you want me to see if I can establish sites for you in other planes?"
namesthesky
"None in the planes in question, or at least not as make themselves clear. The ones from Ice's world that resurrect people can apparently reach across planes just fine but they aren't bothering you here so I don't imagine they'd be a problem anywhere else except maybe Ice's home world, which I wasn't suggesting."
namesthesky
"The planet that sounds like it has more people on it is tide-locked. Sound worth trying anyway?"
namesthesky
"Yes, I'm just wondering how it'll interact with the temperature - if it's boiling or freezing how your springs will come up. Well, I guess we'll see."
namesthesky
"If I just go fill up a couple of barrels of water," Aya says to Prime, "and bike through this portal, is anyone going to stop me or give me trouble or anything, and is there a good obvious place to put a spring?"
darkest_evening
"No one is going to stop you," agrees Prime. "I can pick out some good places for it, near the portal hub's an obvious choice so you can get to lots of places quickly, though if you prefer you can just get a portal to it and be where ever."