EPILOGUE

[faentasy]

Epilogue

After all is said and done, in the wake of the void and sprinting through one final door.

You come out into light. Sunlight actually, a backyard in what appears to be a typical suburban town, if you're familiar with those. The sun shines cheerfully overheard, blissfully unaware of what everyone has went through. And this is everyone, as faces you haven't seen in weeks tumble out in one pile from a basement door.

Happy Saturday, everyone.

There's plenty of reunions and catching up to do, but you've utterly left Aira Niluc behind you after seven long weeks. And through the window of the house which looks like it has seen a better seen better days is one wall mural that reads "And they all lived Happily Ever After".

[[ Happy Golden End everyone, you've earned it! There's still the matter of sorting out where to next, but everyone is whole and alive and without button eyes. Using the knowledge from the object Phil had and the beldam's magic, they can also now world hop only one side effect...the portal that opens to everyone else's worlds here? Is made entirely of pixie dust. Everyone's powers will also restore fully over the course of the next few hours. ]]

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[ideismo]

The more people that know, the less time you have.

[how long do we think the party can keep a secret...]

[scythegun]

Unless something distracts the plucky orphans, not much longer, then!

[But you never know, maybe they'll forget about Regaey and the battle for the box if something else weird happens and they get fixated on that instead!!]

[ideismo]

If Lady Estellise is still with them, she has the attention span of a flea. So you might still have time yet.

[...]

I am not negotiating formally with Regaey.

[scythegun]

[knifecat!!

and then, in the regaey voice, with the exact same expression:] B-B-But m-milord, s-s-surely you wouldn't t-t-t-turn down such an... excellent o-opportunity f-f-for continued co-cooperation?

[ideismo]

[...............]

Don't ever do that again.

[scythegun]

[wink!!]

You're quite lucky I like this voice more~!

[ideismo]

I would certainly say so. That's downright unsettling.

[HE WAS SETTLED. NOW HE'S NOT.]

[scythegun]

[ALWAYS HERE TO INFLICT HORRIBLE CURSES ON YOU, MILORD ✨]

Isn't it? I'm a bit disappointed I never had the chance to do it before now... But your reaction was certainly worth it!

[ideismo]

You're ridiculous.

[Just saying.]

I suppose we'll have to see how negotiations go to begin with; I can't say I'm looking forward to them.

[scythegun]

[another wink!!]

I always will be~

[But anyway!!]

I imagine dealing with the Don is going to be more of a headache than dealing with Regaey, and I do wish you the best of luck with that one.

[ideismo]

Don't remind me. I've already tried once, remember.

[it was the worst.]

[scythegun]

The truly unfortunate part of returning to an earlier time... I'm sure it'll go better this time!

[ideismo]

I suppose I can't complain too much about the situation, if it stops everything else from happening.

I'm not sure I regret raising Zaude, and I can't exactly promise that I'll never want to do it again. But for now at least I'm willing to leave things as they are.

[scythegun]

[Yeager's quiet for a moment, considering.]

...I can't say I regret most of what I was doing, but... I am glad the Don will live.

[But he shrugs once that's out there.]

And anyway, if you try it, I'm sure Schwann will attempt to talk you down.

[And maybe it won't just be Schwann. If he isn't busy, anyway.]

[ideismo]

Regret doesn't really have a place in my life, with regards to the things I've done.

[He knows why he did what he did. That's enough for him, and it's why he acknowledges but never apologizes - because bluntly put, he won't mean it.]

I'm sure Schwann will do his best, at any rate. He's promised me as much - that we won't let it turn out that way, this time.

[scythegun]

[He wouldn't expect otherwise from Alexei at this point. He already got the closest thing to an apology from Alexei anyway, and that's all he really needed.]

I really won't be pleased if we have to start over again, so let's try to get it right this time, ja?

[ideismo]

[...

:|a ]

We could start over again, however. In theory.

[scythegun]

[...oh goddammit, why did he open his mouth.]

I suppose so? As long as we can continue to find other versions of Terca Lumireis?

[DO NOT]

[ideismo]

[hhhhhhhhh]

I wonder how many there are out there.

[scythegun]

[biggest mistake he's ever made: THIS]

Quite a few, I'd imagine... But let's not go getting ahead of ourselves! We likely aren't going to need to go through all those other versions of Terca Lumireis!

[PLEASE DO NOT SET OFF THE GODDAMN SUPERWEAPON]

[ideismo]

Certainly not all of them, no.

[...maybe just one, and that's his own bastard offshoot timeline that won't be happening anymore after this. Maybe he'll go set the superweapon off there if he ever feels the need to.]

[scythegun]

[NO!!!!]

Well, as long as you tell Schwann it was your idea, then~

[NOT HIS PROBLEM, HE PRETENDS HE DOES NOT SEE IT.]

[ideismo]

Don't worry, I won't do anything abhorrent to ours.

[look that bastard offshoot timeline is his and he will very gladly fuck with it one day but like

...not now

now he just kind of wants to go back to terca lumireis and sleep for a while tbh]

[scythegun]

[maybe someday alexei will get to nap.]

I sincerely hope so! I really would prefer to get it right the first time!

[ideismo]

...Technically we've already failed that, but I know what you mean.