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There is a lot of time spent making portals to various places. Pantheon starts as the unofficial hub, and then essentially becomes the official one. Prime makes a portal to Iobel's and Edarial's world, and then he gets to checking out the various new planes he has access to. One, in particular. It's really rather minor, in comparison to the others, but he considers it important.
Few people have the chance to - go back, do something again. But the other version of Kystle is a very specific exception. He knows what's in store for it if he doesn't do anything. Genocide for the invaders (Lynn would call it justified, he just thinks murder is murder), a second invasion of New Kystle, immortal psychopaths with sharp weaponry running around - not the kinds of things he wants. So Prime is thinking of ways to circumvent the problem.
It's unfortunately humbling when he finds no moral solution knocking at his door. There are plenty of immoral ones, but he doesn't touch those. Certainly, he could throw the out of work demon hunters at the plane, tell them to kill things, but that hardly solves the underlying problem. Even he, with all his power, can't save an entire planet. His sister couldn't, either. Not even both of them together.
Obviously, he needs more resources. He didn't deal much in other planes, not when the risks were so great. But now - now he knows that there are other versions of him, other versions of Bells. With various types of magic. Prime isn't a greedy man, but he knows new possible resources when he sees hints of them, and he wants them. He can fix - not his mistake in particular, but his mother's, the second bloodline's.
He spends some time scrying, and then he sighs and snaps his eyes shut. Yeah, that's definitely something. He did not need to see a younger version of himself having sex. Ever. Annoying how his alts seem to come in pairs with 'Bells,' it leads to awkward situations like this. Mirrors are retrieved, and then Prime informs everyone of what he's found - another Adarin, another Bell, together and obviously with some kind of magic.
Since Pantheon seems to be their impromptu central base, he retrieves a recent creation of his, and off he goes to meet with Spring. They're going to write a letter.
darkest_evening
castmyown
Darren wonders if he should switch his degree to get something in therapy, but decides against it. He's not sure even a trained therapist could - help with this.
shesepankh
"Uh, born in 1987, September 13. Forks, Washington. My parents Renée and Charlie got divorced when I was a baby and she moved with me to Phoenix and taught kindergarten there. I spent most summers with Charlie. When I was fifteen Renée got hit by a car, and she died, and I moved in with Charlie full time. And then somebody who looked sort of like Renée from behind dropped my medallion," she displays it, "in the grocery store, and I picked it up to try to give it back but couldn't catch her, and decided to keep it. Which was good because I need it to look human now. Uh, went for a walk in the woods, passed out, woke up like this," she changes to fullform, "and then Darren found me and explained about critters and got really, really excited that I was a sphinx."
castmyown
"Sphinxes are supposed to be extinct and are also super magic. I'm a magic geek, thus - really, really excited."
shesepankh
"Anyway, turns out I'm also a monster magnet, we got attacked by a gigantic lava thing during my first flying lesson, we got to the ocean and Darren hit it with a wave but got really hurt and it turned out that sometimes when I pass out it's because I'm doing thoroughly comprehensive healing magic. Mrs. Adams who I mentioned came out and drove us home. Me and Darren started a business selling magic scrolls and I've been iterating software to automate part of the spell development process. Savannah got possessed by a demon one time, which wasn't fun either, and then most recently I got swallowed up by a sort of ink monster, right out of Darren's lap, in his house, and taken away to a warehouse where I was tortured for information about other sphinxes until he and Savannah rescued me. Aaaand then I started college a year early and we live in an apartment over our store because college is in Seattle and so is a critter-hideaway-town-place - they're called Avalons."
darkest_evening
".... Perhaps you're right, we all just seem to go through some sort of harrowing experience," observes Prime.
namesthesky
"I still don't feel very harrowed. I have been very frightened on several occasions, but not by anything that actually went on to happen."
prodigal_miser
"I wish there was some kind of observable pattern to - harrowing experiences. Half of them seem to be because of people taking offense to pedigree..."
royal_obligation
"Yours is counted under parents, because Nataliem." Pause. "If you weren't aware, Darren, our birth-father is a terrible person."
shesepankh
"If you have any critter parent, you are a critter. If you have one critter parent, or they match, you are that critter; if you have two non-matching critter parents you could be either. If they're using medallions then you get born looking human and stay that way till you get your own of the correct critter type."