where shall i begin?

[small_magics]

Isibel is without her loves, her mints, her enchannels.

She does have a coin stash. A reasonably large one, in her beloved's shifting geode colors, and a few in the higher denominations imported from Rainbow; she can make small ones herself. And she is still linked to her beloveds - she can still access Ansharil's magic, is still a functional elfmage.

And unlike any other Bell cast adrift without her convenient masochist(s), Isibel can enchant alone. It's the simplest application of hyperfocus: contemplate her spell and wake up again with it complete. Channeling through oneself leaves no lingering discomfort after the initial burst, and she can fail entirely to attend to that initial burst.

And -

She is reasonably well recovered from her earlier breakage.

It seems to her that it is time to do some... Belling, although she has not yet decided how to start.

She teleports from her folded-in-on-itself enchanted village to the town in which Magania resides, and there she looks for the other elf, who has given such good counsel in the past and already knows of the features of Bells.

Comments

[pythbox]

"I am sure they will be pleased to see you," says Andoreniel.

[small_magics]

"Liselen, I would be much obliged if you would accompany me," Isibel adds to the unicorn.

[pythbox]

"Sure!" he says brightly.

[small_magics]

Isibel inclines her head to the King, and she brings herself and Liselen to the cave that her beloveds once lived in.

[pythbox]

Saravasse pokes her large scarlet head in the entrance almost immediately.

"Oh, look, it's Ansharil's Bonded," she says, amused. "And the world's rudest unicorn."

Liselen snorts.

[small_magics]

"I See you," chuckles Isibel. "I have come to offer all the dragons and their Bondmates true immortality, if Liselen offers no warning from the Wild Magic."

[pythbox]

"Nope," says Liselen. "Not a peep. There's something about the other thing, but it's not coming clear yet."

[small_magics]

"One caution about the matter is that - while I cannot access the ability now and do not know when I will recover it - the dead of this world are not irrecoverable, and under other circumstances I can retrieve them to a condition indiscernible from life," Isibel says. "I know that under my particular circumstance, my Bond was cut and then restored when I died and then awoke, but I do not know what may happen when there are larger numbers of Bondmates about."

[pythbox]

"That'll cause a stir," Saravasse remarks.

[small_magics]

"Yes, I would imagine. But it could be many years before that power is restored to me, and in the meantime it will help no one if dragons or their beloveds who are alive now should die."

[pythbox]

"Not to mention, at least we'll stop accumulating new ones," says Saravasse. "Come on outside and let's all have a nice chat."

[small_magics]

Isibel nods and follows her.

[pythbox]

All the nearby dragons assemble themselves - Saravasse, Ancaladar, Petrivoch, and more besides. It quickly becomes very crowded, even in the open air with plenty of perches for everyone.

"Isibel here wants to make us all immmortal," Saravasse announces.

"How, exactly?" says Ancaladar.

[small_magics]

"There is a certain afterlife, shared between many worlds, including, now, this one," says Isibel. "If someone who has died and gone there suffers lethal damage, they reset to a healthy state on the spot instead. And it is possible to distribute that power to those who have never died. I can do it."

[pythbox]

"I'll take it," says Saravasse.

Ancaladar nods.

One by one, so do the rest.

[small_magics]

Isibel torchables them all. "I can do the same for your Bondmates if they are willing, but only in person," she says.

[pythbox]

"It won't take long to assemble them," says Saravasse. "Those who are interested."

"Which will be most of them, I'm sure," says Ancaladar.

"Perhaps a day or two," says Saravasse.

[small_magics]

"Perhaps some or all of you would like to be added to my network of telepathy so that you may speak to me and each other at any distance," suggests Isibel.

[pythbox]

Saravasse laughs. "That would be fun," she says, curling her tail around her paws.

The other dragons echo this sentiment.

[small_magics]

[Here you are, then,] she says to all the dragons, and she explains the features of the brainphone.

[pythbox]

[Fascinating,] says Saravasse.

[small_magics]

[I think so. I can teleport and do not sleep, so you may ask for me whenever it is convenient for you and your beloveds.]

[pythbox]

A chorus of dragons is quick to inform her that this is very convenient indeed.

[Thank you,] says Ancaladar on behalf of all of them.

[small_magics]

"You are welcome. And while I am here - there is another matter I can help you with to some degree. The matter of your collectively - limited ancestry. I am unsure how you would most like to address this issue, beyond what my beloved has already assisted with - but I do not think it beyond my current abilities to conjure from nothing some modest number of dragon eggs unrelated to any of you, for instance. Not a large number, at least not while my beloved is gone, because he assists me with magic in more ways than one, but a few."

[pythbox]

Liselen swishes his tail.

"If you do that, you have to be careful about it," he says. "You could end up stealing a lot of magic from places that need it. But if you make sure to create the magic instead of just moving it around, then it's fine."