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[ smacks her arm ]

Owwww.

[be nice to her she cut her boyfriend's arm off earlier]

[ what the two of you do in your spare time is none of his business also he has like 2 str and a dream don't be a wimp ]

Don't curse us with that.

I want away from curses forever.

[sprawls. where are we, are we like in one of our rooms or something. she's so tired.]

[ yeah one of the comfy rooms now we have like. access to all that i guess. sprawling time. ]

Wouldn't that be lovely... and cults, ideally, but we know we're out of luck there.

[ we can be in gale's room, since I don't think I ever got the chance to describe it. it's definitely just 75% library, and the windows overlook a harbor - you can smell the ocean and hear gulls, distantly, but not enough to be annoying. there's portions missing from the bookshelves, like it's been recently tidied up and boxed away. it's not particularly neat, lots of stacks everywhere, but clearly very lived in.]

Plenty more cults, unfortunately. But we're terribly well practiced now. A walk in the park.

[ assigns them curled up on a windowsill with blankets. ]

... I don't think the Elder Brain's going to be into masochism at least. It never gave any indication that it was into the idea of being forcibly restrained.

[curls up with him, then, with a little sigh.]

Speaking of - where are we going, then? Which timeline?

[ hMMMM. ]

...

I don't think we have, no.

Scien mentioned something about ... magically copying sets of memories, to perhaps combine them with the ones you have and the ones of the timeline we are heading to. A modified Soul Jar perhaps could do it, I don't think it would be too profoundly difficult. Or at least, not for me.

Since I am from the earliest point, perhaps my timeline could be used as a chance to correct any mistakes you think you may have made along the way? Foresight can be terribly useful.

[ looks at him like

i like your funny words magic man ]

…

So… implanting our memories onto another version of ourselves?

Yes. It might be strange at first, but I imagine not so difficult once it settled in. It would only be a month or two of divergence.

That said I'm willing to undergo this myself, if either of you have a strong objection to ... not doing this.

…

[ he looks like he’s thinking. ]

You seem confident enough in the procedure as is, so I’m not overly concerned about it not working, but— perhaps it would be an idea to have a trigger or something. Once we confirm the memories are secured and active, they’re removed from the previous bodies.

[ it is… weird talking about it like this because he’s talking about this body right now, his body. ] I lose nothing by reverting memory wise to the point from which I was taken, provided my memories and I suppose I am safely active elsewhere. But I am not a fan of a version of me stuck out there with all the memories and none of the rewards.

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If you are content with that possibility, I don't see why we couldn't do it in that manner.

[ that makes sense to him, actually. ]

It would tidy up a few loose ends, certainly.

[ gale's not wrong that his world is at a better time point to make a few changes, and then... well. the old him would still be free of cazador and helped by people he does trust somewhere deep down inside that broken little heart of his, at least.

ah. ]

I wonder if killing Cazador will be a little different now he won't be able to do a goddamn thing to me.

Hah!

[ yeah! fuck yeah. ]

You are very right about that. He wouldn't be able to touch you.

[ imagine how mad he's gonna be. also you get to kill him twice! yay! ]

... well. He might be able to try and sacrifice me, still. But he wouldn't be able to mind control me into position to do so.

[ god he's going to enjoy knifing him again. ]

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I trust you to do all the magic stuff.

And I don't care so much which one we decide on. Yours is fine. Gives me the chance to kill Gortash again.

[violence emotions]

It would be a somewhat critical moment. Right as we first saw the Elder Brain.

[ but they're all overleveled now so they can probably curbstomp ketheric. ]

[a little shrug.]

I know what happens there. Ketheric wasn't that hard to take out. [...] As long as it doesn't - you'd have to make sure I don't get put in my old body though. I don't want the engine again.

No, no, I am aware. We all have physical changes that will need preserving. I think it will be a matter of the direction of the transference--

[ im sure i could magic mumbo jumbo this but i'm very brain dead right now. ]

[squints at him like she has a headache]

Okay.

[stops him in the middle of magic mumbo jumbo she cannot parse this even on a good day]

[ cool well.

he's just gonna hug her. ]

[oh

yeah, that's - yeah. he hugs her, and she hugs him very, very tightly in return, burying her face in his hair. a beat, and then:]

Gods, we made it. [a little thickly.]