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    "It wasn't my idea to approach them in the first place, but now that we've invested to much into them I figured, at the time, that I needed to get on their good side." Nora can almost hear Telly roll eyes at her past self. "But enough about me, you might get stuck like that for a long time unless you can convince Tina come back. But frankly, I doubt that's going to happen. So instead, I'm going to suggest that you come over to my manor so I might have a closer look at you. Perhaps I can find some way to fix you."

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    "The effect is the same regardless of age I'm afraid. Apparently, it somehow makes exceptions of people related to it, like us and the girls. I don't like the idea of someone getting a glance at her eyes though even if its little chance in here." Astrana says as she never takes her eyes off Maha as she's being held in Val's arms.
    Then she sigh. "We might need to start looking for a new apartment though, this place already felt small with the girls."

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    Fel And Rose

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    Rosalind walks in, looking around the house. It's good to be in a house where she can assume her real height without caring about causing a cave-in or something. "Of course, Fel. A rum and coke, dragon liver buster style." She replies, taking off her suit jacket and hanging it on the coat hanger. "This is an awesome place you have here, Fel."
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    "Right, right. Well we've talked about this before. It's not like we've had enough space for a while now." Valerie says, refocusing on that problem. "I don't think any apartment will do anymore. I know we've been socking away money, but I don't think buying a house is an option. Maybe we can find a house to rent? It'll be a bit tight, especially with another mouth to feed, but you're right that we can't stay here."

    "Oh right, shoot." Valerie adds all of a sudden. "I was going to tell you when you got home. My parents called today. They're planning to move here. If we coordinate and live in the same neighborhood, they'd love to help watch the kids sometimes."

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    [Sagittarius Towers - Day]

    Rein gives a light smile. "Well, time solved a lot of it. Dying fixed some of the rest. I, uh, got better." Supposedly.

    "Only two things really stuck. One of which was kind of sort of a bargain on my part? That one's complicated. The other is the only one I would actually consider a curse though. I've lived with it because it was very incomplete and didn't end up inconveniencing me." Incomplete curses can be really wacky.

    "I can give you more details, but not from this doorway."
    [Sagittarius Towers - Day]

    "Oh, oh yeah! ****, Rein, sorry. Come on in." Fettina will guide him inside. The lobby is a stone path set into a tiny artificial moat, where a stone nymph on a pedestal dominates the center of the room and feeds the waters from a cracked pitcher. Stairs lead up into the apartment proper, a crescent around the Towers central spire, a lavish setting covered in lush rugs and curvaceous furnishings. It's a mess. Tina even has an AI to clean the apartment and still, it manage sot be a mess. Especially right now, with how down she's been. "So this must be like a regular day at the office for you, h-huh?"

    [Sagittarius Towers - Night]

    "Aw, c'mon Cantie. You don't know me all that well yet if you think I'm honest," says Tina, dropping her gaze and blushing. "But you're a decent kind of girl. You're all... bright. Makes me look shiny too. Probably everyone looks a little better to you." Fettina laughs.

    "So are you gonna tell me what the hell happened?" She looks down where Cantie's injury used to be.
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    Khannie looks down at her feet.

    "Yes I would have... It wouldda happened some different way."

    She doesn't sound totally convinced of this.

    What other way would it have happened?

    Well...

    Maybe...

    Maybe she would have been Jace and Veronica's daughter instead?

    That would still be cool.
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    ”Oh Young Vallarm, would you? Your father had no siblings for you, even not knowing you existed until he rescued you. He has had no children since. The nature of your birth is irrelevant to him; he adores you entirely. But had you not been made that day, at that moment, you would not be here. That is no reason to despair. But you must accept who and what you are. Only then can you find your true strength.” the god assures her.
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    [Jace’s Place]

    Would she really be... her... if she had come into existence some other way, though?

    That's a question for philosophers, not ten year olds.

    "But... I don't want to be a pokemon," Khannie objects. "I like being human. My fingers work better and humans never go feral."

    An involuntary shudders run though her.

    "Most humans don't know what going feral is like cuz it never happens to them. If I'm never a pokemon that'll never happen to me."

    Yeah.

    A few of her childhood friends went feral back in the pokemon world.

    It's horrifying.
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    ”You sound like your friend Nick, throwing away his humanity out of fear that being human means he might be dragged away to his homeworld. At least the date he doomed himself to is merely one of sitting in rivers and helping farmers with rain.” The dog shakes his head.
    ”You need not worry about being feral. There are some in the city whose minds are afflicted. But even warped, their minds still think. And they will be fixed soon enough. But here you are free of that realm’s curse. It can never touch you again. Here it is sapience that is more contagious. Dice, that fish of Nick’s... he looks down at his own paws.”Possibly your own dog. Ooops.”
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    Oliver stands up. "I heard in order to join this cartel, I must share your motivations. However, the person I heard this from refused to tell me what your motivations were, claiming I didn't have enough motivation." He gestures around him as he says, "My being here is meant to prove that I am motivated enough to hear your reasons for doing what you do.
    They consider this strange and circular reasoning of Oliver's for a minute.
    "So you have the strength to defy us when it is needed." The temperature in the room drops with every word, but the figure gets no closer, calling across the gaps. "Good. But why are you so set on joining us and belonging here?"

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    "It wasn't my idea to approach them in the first place, but now that we've invested to much into them I figured, at the time, that I needed to get on their good side." Nora can almost hear Telly roll eyes at her past self. "But enough about me, you might get stuck like that for a long time unless you can convince Tina come back. But frankly, I doubt that's going to happen. So instead, I'm going to suggest that you come over to my manor so I might have a closer look at you. Perhaps I can find some way to fix you."
    Norael's Place

    "Now, uh, about that. I don't mind heading over and getting checked out by you, but is it a bad idea for me to stay like this a bit?"
    Norael asks, sounding hesitant but as if she's put some deep thought into it. "I've said before that I am part of a ranking system for White Mages. There has been red tape and politics keeping me from advancing further because I was not a member of a church or follower of a deity. Now that I'm an angel, there cannot be such an excuse and I'll have access to more libraries and even more advanced techniques. If I'm like this, I figure I might as well be ambitious and use it to my advantage."

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    [Jace’s Place]

    "I still like being human, though," Khannie grumps, laying her head down atop her arms. "Being human is way better than being a pokemon. I get why Nick likes being a dragon so much, though. Dragons are pretty cool."

    Just PRETTY cool, Khannie?

    Come on, dragons are great.

    "Dogs and pokemon are different things,"
    she objects. "That's just a pokemon shaped like a dog. And pokemon that looks like a dog and a real pokemon are totally different."

    Or at least she thinks so.

    You can't put normal animals in pokeballs.

    ...

    Right?
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    "Well, I'm afraid it's the same thing to me. The rules are quite specific, you see. I can only possess loyal followers of mine in a special ritual, or a black dog or jackal. That's basically it. Just like Uncle Sobek can only do crocodiles and river water. And Bastet is cats. So the fact that I'm here, stretching out your dog's brain and vocal chords, means that the universe considers him a dog. But tell me, what makes him not real, pray tell?"
    Get it? Pray?
    It's a god joke.
    Anubis is known to have a dry sense of humor.
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    They consider this strange and circular reasoning of Oliver's for a minute.
    "So you have the strength to defy us when it is needed." The temperature in the room drops with every word, but the figure gets no closer, calling across the gaps. "Good. But why are you so set on joining us and belonging here?"
    Oliver shivers as the temperature drops. "I've heard that your group does some good things, and I want to do good things myself. However, nobody will be straight with me about what you do or why you do it. So I decided the only way to figure it out was to come here."
    After 2 years of silence, I reappear!

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    "We make the world as it should be, gathering power to unmake the chains of conservation and entropy, to create a world true in the image of our leader. We save refugees from winter's teeth and grant those wronged the chance to take their revenge."
    They bound over to the beginning of the stepping-stone path.
    "But I thought you were tired of altruism, and wanted to do as you will?"
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    "Because..."

    Khannie huffs a bit, flustered.

    There's gotta be a good reason for it, right?

    Otherwise what would the difference be between animals and pokemon?

    And Khannie KNOWS there's a difference.

    Lots of differences!

    "They can get put in pokeballs. And they evolve and stuff. They look like animals, but they aren't. Animals are different."
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    "We make the world as it should be, gathering power to unmake the chains of conservation and entropy, to create a world true in the image of our leader. We save refugees from winter's teeth and grant those wronged the chance to take their revenge."
    They bound over to the beginning of the stepping-stone path.
    "But I thought you were tired of altruism, and wanted to do as you will?"
    Oliver shrugs. "I said what I thought you wanted to hear. I assumed bad people could do good stuff, and that's what was going on here." The first sentence isn't a lie, the second one is debatable, as all that he's heard about how good this group is comes from people in the group.
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    [Jace's Place]

    "And yet this one barks at squirrels. His tail wags when he's happy and when someone rubs his belly. He loves his human who is kind to him, and even you. If it looks like a dog, and it barks like a dog, and it gets possessed by the canine god like a dog, it just might be a dog, Young Vallarm." Anubis tells Khannie, grinning a toothy grin.
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    [Fel And Rose]

    Rosalind walks in, looking around the house. It's good to be in a house where she can assume her real height without caring about causing a cave-in or something. "Of course, Fel. A rum and coke, dragon liver buster style." She replies, taking off her suit jacket and hanging it on the coat hanger. "This is an awesome place you have here, Fel."
    Felandria beams with pride.

    Why, thank you.

    I worked really hard on it, the magic to make it able to be the right size and everything.

    And I picked out most of the furniture.

    Only shame is lack of a pool.


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    "Aww, what a good little floof he is."
    Wait.
    Was there something going on besides Reginald?
    Right.
    "'Blood and <ship>'? Neither does steak once you cook it." Neverest retorts, taking another bite and getting grease all over her mittens.
    Reginald continues to be a very good floof, sniffing around for additional steak.

    Fel noms some biscuit.

    I tend to prefer fingerish foods usually, sometimes I’m I’m eating with utensils around others it makes them nervous for some reason.

    Prolly the size of the knife.

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    Violet pushes the last bit of her steak into her mouth as Fel talks about her hands. Damn those were large. She ruminates for a moment before standing up.

    Ok, hangovers gone. Weird frog guy I'm gonna need you to be gone by the time we're done so I can pretend you didn't listen to anything. Violet walks over to Fel, reaching up to try and grab her hand and start towing her to where she thinks the bedroom is. Now you, we gotta make up for lost time. Come on.
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    "Right, right. Well we've talked about this before. It's not like we've had enough space for a while now." Valerie says, refocusing on that problem. "I don't think any apartment will do anymore. I know we've been socking away money, but I don't think buying a house is an option. Maybe we can find a house to rent? It'll be a bit tight, especially with another mouth to feed, but you're right that we can't stay here."

    "Oh right, shoot." Valerie adds all of a sudden. "I was going to tell you when you got home. My parents called today. They're planning to move here. If we coordinate and live in the same neighborhood, they'd love to help watch the kids sometimes."
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    "Now, uh, about that. I don't mind heading over and getting checked out by you, but is it a bad idea for me to stay like this a bit?"
    Norael asks, sounding hesitant but as if she's put some deep thought into it. "I've said before that I am part of a ranking system for White Mages. There has been red tape and politics keeping me from advancing further because I was not a member of a church or follower of a deity. Now that I'm an angel, there cannot be such an excuse and I'll have access to more libraries and even more advanced techniques. If I'm like this, I figure I might as well be ambitious and use it to my advantage."
    [Tieflings and Vampires and Sneks Oh My]

    Astrana was for the moment glad she didn't have parents, this felt like it would be awkward just talking about. To have two people come in and judge all your life choices like this. So much had happened since she had last properly communicated with them and even if Val had been in closer touch with them, this would be the first time since-
    "They're going to live here now?" She sounded skeptical. "I mean, I am grateful for the help if they're offering but... how much do they know exactly? About us I mean. We don't exactly have their kind of relationship."

    Norael's Place

    "I don't mind." Tellysandra remarks. "I just though you would considering- well, just make sure to stop by so I can make sure that you won't explode, or worse. I saw what kind of angel you've become."
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    "Pokemon are still different," Khannie grumps as she stomps over to the TV and turns it on.

    This conversation is dumb and she's done with it being dumb so she's going to watch TV instead. Maybe after a little bit she'll feel better and want to do her homework.

    And on the screen?

    Some sort of flying-type human that looks an awful lot like Miss Veronica?

    "Instead he seems about ready to try and take me down. So I have a question for you all. At what point is it acceptable for a parent to bring his kid to an unknown and potentially hostile palace that's just descended from the skies? This place could be unstable, could be filled with monsters and traps, radiation, or who knows what else. Oh, certainly he could be going all Spartan and letting the kid fend for himself, but this just strikes me as quite foolhar-"

    WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, PLEASE STAND BY


    Was that... was daddy there, too? Khannie's pretty sure she saw him before the picture changed. Is there something bad happening? What happened to Miss Veronica? What if they need her help!?

    "Oh no..." she mutters, glancing back toward a certain drawer. "Umm... mister Anubis I think I need to go. My daddy might be in trouble!"
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    "I mean... what do they need to know? We're living together, we have kids. We don't have much extended family, so they want to be able to see us and their grandchildren." Valerie frowns at Astrana's tone. Why is she always so hesitant when it comes to Valerie's parents? Of course, there's a more pressing concern. "The only thing they don't know about is, um, that their son is their daughter now. Which is probably going to be an extremely awkward conversation, but it had to happen sometime."

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    [Jace's Place]

    The dog gives her a stare. The stare of a god when someone says "well it really seemed like a good idea at the time."
    "Really, Young Vallarm.
    I want you to think about what you just said out loud to me.
    And I want you to think about what you just heard that woman say. Specifically the part about parenting and bringing your child to dangerous situations. Did your father seem to be defending himself from anything?"
    he asks her.
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    [Jace's Place]

    "I don't have time to think about it, I need to go save my daddy!" Khannie objects as she hurries out into the hallway.

    There it is.

    The drawer with her pendant in it.

    She'll start off simple enough here.

    She tries to pull it open!

    ...but it's locked.

    Of course it is.

    Khannie rattles the drawer a few times. Still nothing.

    She huffs, clenches and unclenches her fist a few times, and then suddenly her arm up to the elbow goes all purple and insubstantial. She tries reaching through the drawer.
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    [Jace's Place]

    The drawer, stubbornly, is made of safe-grade materials and is warded against intrusion. Mostly because a) it's where Jace keeps all his magic stuff and b) he knew exactly who would be trying to tamper with it. Anubis rolls his eyes and goes after her.
    "Save him from what, exactly? From the things he's spent his life dealing with? His own girlfriend?
    If you haven't noticed, Young Vallarm, not stopping to think about it is why you're in this situation in the first place. What makes you think he'll respond to you charging into danger any differently than how he always has?"
    he asks her.
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    [Jace's Place]

    Khannie frowns at the safe.

    Foiled!

    "Because I'll be saving HIM this time instead of some other people," Khannie reasons. "And he'll see that I can really do it."

    With the drawer still refusing to budge, and with her arm being unable to pass through, she decides that it's time to get a little more violent.

    She focuses briefly, hauling back her fist, before aiming to punch the safe! Her fighting spirit flares with stone-shattering, barrier sundering force!

    Brick-Break, basically.

    This probably won't work either.

    But she has to try!
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    [Jace's Place]

    The drawer refuses to dent. Nothing happens.
    Well, except for a bunch of words appearing at the point of impact.
    NICE TRY KHANNIE. YOU ARE SO GROUNDED.

    "Right. Except if he's not actually in any danger, or you fail, in which case you will only manage to make everything worse." says the got blithely. Children. He's glad the ones in his family are centuries old minimum.
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    [Jace's Place]

    Khannie scowls at the text.

    She really doesn't care.

    At all.

    Even a little bit.

    This is WAY more important than being grounded.

    "No, it'll make everything better," Khannie insists as she turns and hops down the stairs. Down the stairs and to the tool drawer! That one isn't locked.

    Not even a little bit!

    She'll return to the offending drawer with... a screwdriver? And out of her pocket she pulls several picks. How did those get in there?

    She has no idea where this idea came from. It just sort of... popped into her head. She begins fiddling with the lock in spite of the fact that there's no reason why she should have any idea how to do any of these things. No reason other than the fact that she's a video game protagonist and which RPG hero doesn't know how to pick locks for no good reason?
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    [Jace’s Place]

    After some rattling, the first of Khannie’s picks breaks. This is not surprising.
    What is surprising is that Anubis is fairly sure she almost had it.
    And it’s a combination lock. For once the god feels distinctly out of control of the situation. These things don’t happen when Horus manifests. He needs to stick to being Morne’s quest marker. Things make more sense when he’s pointing a robotic warlock-cleric at dungeons to shoot up.

    ”Oh, so close, Young Vallarm.” he coos, betraying none of his exasperation. ”You know, as a god I can help you with that. But you’ll have to make a promise to me. Take Commissar with you. Give him a chance to prove himself. Promise me that and I’ll help you get that open.”
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    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

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    [Jace’s Place]

    Khannie frowns.

    She was close!

    She can TELL she was close!

    But she only has three more picks... what if she breaks the others?

    Anubis is given a skeptical look.

    "I thought you DIDN'T want me to go?" she asks skeptically.

    Something's fishy about this situation.

    And it isn't the tuna sandwich she had for lunch, either.
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