now what?

[small_magics]

Isibel gates the demon and all of the useful books except the parts about summoning Darkness (which she burns) into the cave where they've been sleeping.

She stays there. Their physical presence is a comfort; their mental presence works over arbitrary distances and at least they're not awake to read her.

She reads the books. Just for something to do.

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[small_magics]

Snuggles.

She barely thinks of anything, now. Maybe that's how it will stop hurting. She'll flinch away from thinking until her brain stops trying to do it.

[endragoned]

No. That is no good at all. He loves her mind, every piece of it, he just - wishes he could love it from farther away.

[small_magics]

She's not sure she knows how to put it back together again now anyway.

[endragoned]

Her beloveds could help... but of course that's the problem, isn't it?

He sighs, and cuddles her, and stops thinking. It's easy enough by now to do nothing but snuggle.

[small_magics]

Snuggle. Thoughtless comfortable snuggle.