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[campanas]

Here, in a place where she is quite an unexpected sight, is:

an eight year old girl with brown-flecked white wings, looking dismayed and lost.

with Prime (Aestrix)

with Edie and Emily (Maggie)

with Gloria (Maggie)

with Gren (Rockeye)

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[whatamithinking]

"Just checking. ...Come to think of it, are there any of us in Downside from Peace?"

[autokinetic]

"Jane says no. ...Apparently according to Pen you're not a fan of the brainphone or Jane would talk directly to you."

[whatamithinking]

"It was a surprise. I don't dislike it, but...the metaphor I used was, imagine someone talking to you, but instead of hearing it you felt it, only backwards? Not inherently bad, but extremely startling when you're not expecting it."

[mind_game]

[Surprise.]

[whatamithinking]

[Hello! So you're this Jane I've heard so much about.]

[mind_game]

[That's me. Anyway, found your Nazi, flagged him do-not-wake, have not found any of the four of you Downside or anywhere else I've got nodes. Congratulations, you're new.]

[whatamithinking]

[I feel so special. Um, do you need my grandparents' names?]

[mind_game]

[I already stared into your soul, remember? I know what you know.]

[whatamithinking]

[Oh, right. Well, that puts you in a club of two.]

[mind_game]

[Anyway. Mother dear, am I putting all four-and-a-step grandparents here or a selection or them and also the entire 1900 St Louis Cardinals or what?]

[autokinetic]

"Good question. How many grandparents did you require?"

[whatamithinking]

"...Just Dad's parents, I think," she says, looking to Charles for confirmation.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Charles looks uncomfortable. "I wouldn't want them to be dead forever, but...if there's a confirmed afterlife, I'm certainly in no hurry to have mine back."

[mind_game]

[Coming right up. Do you want them deposited directly here or for me to run them through standard explanations first?]

[bellfounding]

"The standard when resurrection is generally known is a waiting list and request-based system with filters."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"An explanation," Erik says heavily, "would probably be useful, considering that their fourteen year old son is now fifty."

[mind_game]

[Sure. In progress.]

She awakens Edie (senior) first. [Hello, Edie. My name is Jane and I'm the manager of the afterlife. Your son has requested that you and your husband be resurrected. It has been thirty-six years since you died. I can answer any questions you may have and whenever you are ready I can put you where he and his living family are.]

And Grandpa next, with an equivalent introduction.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Edie-the-elder takes a long time to respond. "So he survived, then," she says finally. "Good. Where is he now?"
Jakob's response is a little quicker in coming, but similar in tone. "He made it out, then. Is he alright?" Jakob had lasted a little longer than his wife, had seen some of what that doctor had put their son through. Alive did not necessarily mean whole, physically or mentally.

[mind_game]

Jane finds out their geographical location: [Westchester, New York.] [He looks all right, and is anxious to see you.]

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"New York," she murmured, "I wonder how that happened. Alright. You can take me there."
"Well. Best not to keep him waiting any longer," Jakob concludes.

[mind_game]

Put!

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Hugs. Extremely hugs.
When they're done hugging--
Nope.
Well, if we wait a while--
Nope.
They can't go on hugging literally forever!
Don't try to tell Magneto what he can and can't do.

[autokinetic]

"Soooo, while we're here, do you actually like being in a wheelchair for reasons or anything?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Ah," says Charles, taken aback. "Well. Not as such, no."

[autokinetic]

"Because like, we're very magic? So we could fix it if you want. I ditched my assistive device when I got magic and it was cooler than a wheelchair."