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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
"I'm going to take the wild guess that the mirrors do more than just letting us look at ourselves?"
shesepankh
"Very nice," Phix agrees. "Uh, is this a good time to try to get my mom back? There's still someone evil who hates sphinxes and is unpleasantly good at finding me out there, I'm wondering if we shouldn't wait, but on the other hand - if we don't try it I don't see how we're going to find out if it works on critters. Darren, can you think of any dead critters we want back besides Renée?"
dark_light
"If your Mrs. Adams is a Lynn, she might have a dead kid, and if your Mrs. Adams is a bugbear, her kid would be a critter. I promised Lynn I'd get hers back but haven't done it yet - was planning to do it before going home today, actually, as long as I'm leaving Chamomile at all. You could phone Mrs. Adams and ask her some weird questions."
castmyown
"That - yeah, we can do that. Pretty sure she'd prefer we ask about it, since - resurrection. Dad's got her phone number, should we go ask her weird questions right now?"
shesepankh
"I have her number in my phone already since the demon," says Phix, and she goes through the portal and calls Mrs. Adams.
shesepankh
"Hi. I have something pretty staggeringly unbelievable to say, and if you decide I'm just messing with you it's the kind of thing that would seem like a really mean prank, can I get suspension of disbelief or do I have to wait for you to come visit me in the Avalon so I can actually show you the underlying hocus-pocus?"
"Okay, then - however mean it may seem to be, I won't hold it against you. What is the staggeringly unbelievable thing?"
shesepankh
"First of all, is your first name Lynn or something like it and do you have a dead child?"
shesepankh
"Today me and Darren met alternate universe versions of ourselves and they know somebody who sounds like she's an alternate universe version of you. And one of my alts can resurrect the dead. We don't know yet if it works on critters but I don't want to try my mom first because someone is already after me for being a sphinx."
"... You may test it on my daughter, provided you can - be sure that it won't - I want her back, but I don't want to cause her pain."
shesepankh
"You should probably talk to the alt of me who has the spell if you're worried. You should probably talk to her anyway. But she resurrected her husband once and he seemed fine."
"Then - yes. I would like my daughter back. Please."
It's hard to tell over the phone, but she sounds close to tears.
It's hard to tell over the phone, but she sounds close to tears.
shesepankh
"Can you come to the Avalon? The portal is in my and Darren's apartment and you could talk to her, I don't know what she needs or if there's a list of risks or side effects or what."