we are not truly immortal

[dark_light]

After Glass's party is over with, Amariah and Kas go home.

Amariah fetches down their alethiometers.

"It's about time I took care of Alethia's afterlife, whatever it may be," she says quietly. "What can the alethiometer tell you about what I'll find?"

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[cardistry]

[I bet I know what I'd get,] laughs Brilliance, [and I'm not going anyway.]

[incanted]

[Yeah, you'd probably get the standard unsettled thingamabob. If devices can even have daemons,] says Aurora. [Do you want to come see what me and Lexi will get though?]

[cardistry]

[Yeah!]

He goes to where they are.

[incanted]

Square! Square!

Aurora gets an awesome kite.

[lexicality]

Lexi gets a nifty sorta pigeon.

"I might just want this anyway, it's cool," says Lexi.

[cardistry]

"Ooh, pretty," says Brilliance, hugging Aurora.

[incanted]

"Yeah, I don't want to have a daemon but it's nice to know what it would be if I did," grins Aurora. "Lexi, you should think really hard and talk to some people with daemons before you get one, but you can if you want."

[lexicality]

"Yeah, I know, I won't just scamper off to Alethia," says Lexi.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose notifies her husband. And Yseult too, why not, this even though she does not plan to go on the trip. [But it would seem that if I did, my soul would take the form of an orchid bee,] she adds.

[deslandes]

[Pretty!] says her husband.

[mindfields]

[I wonder what my soul would be,] says her daughter.

[beheld_beauty]

[You can find out with a square, if you would like.]

[mindfields]

[...My soul would be an enormous bird,] Yseult reports. [An enormous flightless bird with little fluffy wings. I do not want one.]

[beheld_beauty]

Rose laughs. [Then do not go to Alethia without a star protecting you from its existence.]

[mindfields]

She giggles.

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet tells her Sherlock what's up. [I'm gonna stay home,] she adds. [But apparently I'd get a tiger, if I didn't.]

[eversomuchfun]

[Of course you would,] he says, amused.

[cross_and_bow]

[Well, everyone else who's reported in so far gets something that flies, or at least a flying squirrel that can fake it. I guess a tiger is pretty neat though.]

[eversomuchfun]

[It suits you.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Stripy, carnivorous, and endangered, that's me.]

[eversomuchfun]

[Of course. The stripes are particularly fetching.]

[cross_and_bow]

[I love you.]

[eversomuchfun]

[I love you too.]

[cross_and_bow]

[If the first wave needs the reserve wave to bail them out and the reserve wave starts desperately looking for further assistance I may require you to follow me to Alethia and hold my tiger.]

[eversomuchfun]

[Happily.]