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"It's not strictly chronological. I'll go make room..." She rummages around in her freezer. "- you just have to like nonmaliciously request them and credibly indicate that you have somewhere to put them - you don't even need me, if they were from here, we've got the wished on setup."

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Food in freezer. "There's a set from here but also sets from other places. How long does it take if I request them -"

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"I've never requested anybody. You'll need one of us if you want ones from places outside our neighborhood I guess. Maybe a week if you do it through the queue here unless it gets flagged."

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"Let's do the set from Cube now, then, and I'll also put in a queue request."

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"...here?"

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"No, a Lórien. I can give you a ride."

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"Yeah, all right."

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"Thank you!!!!!" And he has to drop her off in Lórien and actually go near Cube to make the basement dwellers - clothed and hair braided for Rebecca, clothed and with a hat for the baby - but then he has them. 

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The magic rock gets in her red-gold-black outfit and taps each with brilliant gold light.

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"Thank you," Epic whispers, and takes her home.

 

Then he goes and gets Macalaurë. "Okay she's alive now. Do you want to wait for her -"

            "Lórien will let her find me when it's right, yes?"

"Yeah."

He vanishes.

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Rebecca and Catherine are in a soft little valley with sunlight streaming in; there's a brook in the mid-distance, and a gleaming golden bridge. The valley is full of flowers. There are trees but they don't encroach. 

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Rebecca startles.

"Wa," says Catherine, and Rebecca startles again, and focuses on her in disbelief, bursts into tears, and scoops her up and holds her tight.

 

It becomes a little clearer that this is not Heaven when it transpires that Catherine is hungry and Rebecca still can't feed her. She carries a whimpery baby across the bridge anxiously.

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The brook changes from water to milk when she crosses it.

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...okay. She will attempt to scoop milk up for the baby.

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There are shells with rubbery lips in the river, as if designed for that purpose.

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Heaven is strange. But she can make this work. Shell-feeding of little Catherine.

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The flowers grow up around where they're sitting. Little Catherine appears to be in perfect health.

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Rebecca sings to her. Presently Catherine is full and napping.

...Rebecca resumes progress across the bridge.

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The bridge resumes being water when it doesn't seem needed. There's someone singing beautifully in the distance.

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Ooh. Angel? Angel probably. She picks up the pace.

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He's sitting on a little bit of a hill singing. He smiles and waves at her when she steps out of the trees.

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She stops at the foot of the hill and bows as much as she can without disturbing Catherine and sits on the grass and listens.

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Hello, Rebecca. 

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Shiver. - hello.

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You're alive. It's been a very long time- two hundred years, a bit more. We ended death and ended evil - here, at least, not everywhere - and we learned how to bring people back to life.

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