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Ari's out collecting mushrooms on the Blood Moor.
Yes, there are demons, and zombies, and once he saw some bipedal cows with halberds for some reason, and yes, they could theoretically kill him. But he has a very sharp scythe, and he can conjure fire and lightning at his whim, and just in general, Ari can take care of himself.
Uncle Deckard told him not to go too far. Ari told him to go teach his grandmother to suck eggs.
"Well, usually I think they would overlook everything. Asheville is so close to the dead city that they were happy to have any sorcerer on duty. But I am pretty sure this will get her fired." Gabe says with levity.
"That's problematic. Do we have a way to find her and get her back to the house so she can pretend she sent us?"
"She has something off a route. We can check through that." Sigh. "We should get going? I assume that they don't need us any longer?"
"Yeah. I don't think we are being kicked out, but we don't have much reason to stay."
He grabs his brothers.
"Huddle together," Fernando says, "the floating effect got weak enough that I need you touching me."
Of course he is. They go up, up, up in the sky in a floating cuddle-ball.
They zoom about with the cloud and stars below them and then...
"Fuck. Okay, we are safe. This is actually a fail-safe to avoid accidents. I know where we can land."
It's mostly darkness beneath them. But there is warehouse with a parking lot with five trucks. They land amidst them.
"It's set to automatically land once I reach 50% stamina expenditure. It's just ignoring the fact that I have at least twenty times more stamina than usual."
Felix (who speed away without anyone noticing) is coming out of the warehouse holding hands with...
A remarkably tall man. Very remarkably tall. Like eight feet. "Hi, boys. It's your presence here related to the darkness in the middle of the day?"
Fernando floats up to kiss Katur. "We had a very eventful day. But the short answer is yes."
"Hey, did we failed to mention Katur? We are the worst boyfriends. Ari, this is Katur. Katur, this is Ari."
"I swear to god that we have reasonable explanations. But do you mind if we use your phone?"
"Of course, sorry. I am being rude."
The artificial lights are not ideal, but Ari can spot Katur blushing furiously. And it takes a moment for him to regain his composure.
"Please, come in." He leads then inside.
Ari will follow him in! Because that is polite. And because that is where Katur is, and he is very tall and pretty. Some amount of staring may be going on.
The group is lead to what must be Katur's office. He offers the phone for Henry to use.
"Ari is from another world, a new one and his world is inhabited by..." Fernando goes on explaining.
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