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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[endragoned]

They will help with the afterlife if the afterlife wants their help.

[small_magics]

Do they want her along (with her raccoon wished nonexistent) for the same reason that Stella will be there for Alice?

[endragoned]

That would please them very much.

[small_magics]

Then she will do that.

[endragoned]

Her beloveds love her.

[small_magics]

She loves them back!

[endragoned]

Love love love.

[small_magics]

And traveling.

[jovahs_heiress]

Angela relays everything Jane tells her to Micaiah. She is a tentative volunteer for a second, bailout wave. She would have a tern if she had anything.

[yovahs_kisses]

Micaiah does not think he wants a daemon of his own, but he will hold his angel's if she needs him to.

[jovahs_heiress]

All right then. Angela relays this information to Jane.

[bellfounding]

After Jane tells her that some Jokers are going on the expedition for reasons of their own, Pattern notifies Queenie and Ghosty.

[yourheartstrings]

[Could be fun,] says Ghosty. [Count me in.]

[bellfounding]

[Jane'll take you if you show up at the point.]

[yourheartstrings]

[Okay.]

[gunpowdergelatine]

[Do we have any idea how long this is gonna take?] says Queenie. ['Cause if I'm losing my snugglebuddy for a week, I want another one.]

[bellfounding]

[No clue. It's an unfamiliar afterlife, the alethiometer was cagey as hell. I have a decent coin stash, if you need to go visiting someplace.]

[gunpowdergelatine]

[Mmkay. Cross that bridge when we come to it, I guess.]

[yourheartstrings]

Ghosty manifests at the Janepoint.

[mind_game]

Jane contentedly serves as interdimensional transit.

[lifes_sake]

The final tally is:

Amariah, definitely going. Kas, also definitely going.

Cam, going if his experiment with Grace works out.

Shell Bell, going. Pearl, hanging around to hold her duck-thing. (It turns out that this sort of duck is called a smew.)

Alice, going, recreationally; Stella, not going but hanging around for his daemon.

Ghosty, going recreationally.

Sue, going to link everyone but not intending to separate from Ivy.

Aianon and Ansharil, showing up just to see what will happen, and Isibel along with an anti-raccoon wish in place for moral support.

Elspeth, Glass, Golden, and Angela as backup; Juliet as emergency backup. Elspeth is hanging out in Alethia as the most likely necessary backup and because she was already there. Jellybean has gone home.

[edgeofyourseat]

When Alice appears in Alethia, no daemon appears with him.

[yourheartstrings]

The same with Ghosty.

[endragoned]

The same with Aianon and Ansharil.

[dark_light]

"...That's weird. Sue got one this way," Amariah says.