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"We're going to have to wake her to test it. Ugh, I told her she'd wake up safe. Goddesses all, I hate this, I hate this," mutters Amariah, undoing her sleep-wish.

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Isibel opens her eyes, and then scrunches them shut again and shudders in the demon's embrace.

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"We're going to have to wake you to test things as we think of them, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," murmurs Amariah, and she sends Isibel back to sleep.

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The demon holds his beloved and cries into her hair.

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"Nothing, I take it. My aura does some - but no, she can't cast anything like this, can she."

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"What do we have, Bells?"

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"Cutting the bond at the source - I know you don't like it, Amariah, but she's disintegrating -"

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"It would be kinder to kill her and then leave her dead," Amariah says flatly.

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"We can try Downside, then, if these things usually end when someone dies. Send her through. Will she need to avoid seeing you again?" Shell Bell asks the demon and the dragon. "Would that just stick you back together? I don't know how this forms."

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"It forms when she sees me, and knows me, and loves me," says the dragon. "It is possible to - choose not to accept the bond, even then. But those who do will carry a deep sorrow all their lives."

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"But she could still visit the demony half of you?" hazards Juliet.

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The demon nods.

"We were friends - when she knew she could bond to my love, but did not know she had to. She saw only me, and it was... fine."
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"Magic in your world isn't mean, right? It's not going to destroy everything she sacrificed for if we try to cheat her out of the sacrifice being permanent?"

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"The Wild Magic is - not kind," he says, "exactly. But it is not cruel."

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"Are any of us going to think of anything better than Downside in the next - day, two?" Shell Bell asks.

The answer appears to be no.

"Who's already been looked over by the admin and wants to take Isibel there? I don't think we'd better wait around to find someone from her world to make torchable."
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"I'll go." Angela holds out her arms towards the demon for Isibel.

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He kisses his sleeping love, then stands and settles her into Angela's arms.

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Angela has no trouble carrying her.

"Jane," she murmurs.

And Jane takes angel and elf Downside.

[Excuse me,] Angela says to the admin. [I need a world added and don't yet want to make anyone from it able to torch.]
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[The person you brought with you?] says the admin.

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[We need to actually kill her and then bring her back, not torch her, but I brought her here so you could use her to find the world to hook her in.]

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[Done,] says the admin, and indeed it is now apparent through Isibel that her world is linked to Downside.

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[Thank you.]

Angela does it, shivering, with a square, cleanly. There isn't a body, not with the death occurring Downside; the elf vanishes from her arms.
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Back in Atlantis, the demon throws his arms around the dragon's neck and cries. But the dragon sighs with relief.

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[Did it work?] Jane asks.

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