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?"

Comments

[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.]

[cross_and_bow]

[No, probably not, the idea behind the holding thing is that it will make the overall experience of having to separate less unpleasant, so he'd be yowling miserably at you, but thanks.]

[eversomuchfun]

[I stand by my adverb; I would be happier doing that than staying home and letting you suffer.]

[cross_and_bow]

[With any luck it'll just be Amariah, who's already separated, and Cam, who expects to be able to it instantaneously, and maybe Shell Bell who wants to go for some reason maybe because she couldn't bring herself to come along beyond door-holding last time we attacked an afterlife. Second wave probably won't be necessary, let alone third.]

[eversomuchfun]

[With any luck, yes.]

[small_magics]

Sarion opens up the subset of her mind that is listening to Jane, when Jane speaks to her.

[endragoned]

Her beloveds tell her that they would go, just to find out what happens.

[small_magics]

Sarion tries a square, and gets an illusory raccoon. She is not sure if experimentation is the best way to address this matter.

[endragoned]

How else will we find out? says Ansharil, quite reasonably.

[small_magics]

Did a square not work for them? They should at least try a square first.

[endragoned]

What do we do with the square, beloved?

[small_magics]

She shows them the wish that got her the raccoon illusion. They could try it once each, and for them-as-a-complete-entity.

[endragoned]

It does not go; it does not go; it does not go again.

[small_magics]

How strange.

If they would really prefer to make the experiment - well, she is curious too, just nervous.