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You know, I don't really know how it worked but Fisher and its baby just went off to space and broadcasted everything they had eaten to everything. It was fucking amazing.

[She floats over to the little void fish container and coos at it.]

It also means everyone can see the Hunger and fight it.

Oh, shit.

(It's all she can think to say. That's a whole lot. The idea of everybody being able to see the Hunger is both exhilarating, and terrifying. She watches Lup fuss over Junior, arms folded across her chest. She can feel her heart pounding. Lup seems... friendly enough, considering she knows all the shit that has gone down in the ten year interim but– well, she has to ask.)

Lup are– are we cool?

[She turns, moving over to Lucretia again and looking down at her.]

Lucretia, dear, I’ve already forgotten about the whole thing. Oh, uh! [She smiles, because she can reuse her old joke again.] Sorry, bad choice of words.

[...but in all honesty she had not exactly been aware for a decade, had she? She had to fight to even have a consciousness, and then learn how to see and hear and exist.

Oh, she had been horrified and broken when she realized nobody came for her, existing as a barely a conscious mind in her staff.

Then Taako arrived, and didn't recognize her staff or her remains. She had sensed Lucretia outside, known that nobody remembered her.

...but how could she not forgive her? Especially not now.]

Oh, (Lucretia says, looking up at her and the crushing relief that follows is a little shock, because she hadn't been expecting it. Of course, she never would have asked for Lup's forgiveness, never would have dreamed of it. Not after what had happened with Taako.

To be forgiven is something of a kindness: perhaps too much so. But she's too selfish to question it in this moment. Surely it isn't a crime to let herself be happy and relieved for an afternoon.)

Awesome. That's– thank you.

[Lup rolls her eyes a little.]

Don't thank me, doofus. You did all right in the end.

(Lucretia lets all her breath out with a big huff until her shoulders slump.)

Yeah, I guess so.

Just got to get you back in your body now, huh?

Yeaaaaah. I mean, Taako's been pretty bamf with his spells studies and knows Clone now, so he's gonna make me a new one.

[Shrug.]

It's gonna take a while, though. Four months, give or take.

Cripes. (I mean, in comparison four months probably doesn't feel like a long amount of time to Lup but Lucretia still wants to help.)

Does he need a hand? Because I might be able to help speed that up. Like, not to honk my own horn or anything but I am also pretty 'bamf' with the magic side of stuff now too, so.

[She's so, so used to waiting by now, but this place was kind of outside the cycles and was a little harder to enjoy as an incorporeal lich.]

Of course you fucking are, you're gonna go put a shield around the Hunger like the baddest bitch in history!

[Lup smiles, all teeth but honestly.]

I'm sure he could use a hand. I mean... it's gonna be my body. From my hair.

[She loses her smile and backs of a bit.]

Shit. It's gonna be different.

That's the aim.

(She grins too. Besides, Taako will let her help if it's about Lup.)

'Different'? How so?

Ughhh. I mean... I haven't had my old body in centuries, Luce. It's going to be really shitty.

[That was putting it lightly, but she could do it. It would just be for a little while, until they could change it back to her.]

I know. But we'll do our best to get everything back to normal for you as soon as possible.

(She holds her hands out to Lup, as if going to take hers, then drops them again with an embarrassed chuckle. Whoops, already slipping up.)

[It's going to be shitty and dysphoric and all that stuff, but it's temporary, just like this is temporary. Because she has the best family.]

I know.

[She sees the gesture and there's a warmth in her chest as she conjures that stupid mage hand that she's been doing everything with lately, and lets it grasp Lucretia's.]

(She grins, and clasps the mage hand in place of holding Lup. They'll all make it through this, she knows they will. She has all the faith in the world in them.)

So how many awful pranks have you got lined up before the four month lich body grace period is up?

So many.

[She beams at Lucretia. Damn, the other woman knows her so well.]

Definitely making Magnus do that squeak a lot as payback for all the ass I see.

Good.

(One hundred year friendship baby, gotta be good for something.)

You think he'd be desensitised to the sight of you by now.

[The saviors of the sausage party.]

I know, right? Sometimes I think he's just humoring me, but that squeak makes him so embarrassed so I doubt it.

(Damn straight.)

Nah, you gotta milk something like that for all it's worth, I think. Oh geez, speaking of not being desensitised though... I guess I gotta explain your lich sitch to Beverly, huh.

Fucking hell. I can't believe this, I didn't meet her before I got all spooky!

[The horror.]

Please tell me you have some good pictures of flesh me.

I have drawings of flesh you. And Taako probably has selfies, or whatever; we'll find something to show her, don't worry.

She'll probably think you look cool like this.

Show her my instagram, see if she can tell us apart.

[The outline of her face looks a little softer as she hears the last part, and she nudges Lucretia affectionately with a mage hand.]

She's gonna think you're cool that have such bitchin' friends.

Alright.

(She laughs, then grows flustered when Lup teases her even as she tries to appear nonchalant, shrugging her shoulders.)

Well, uh. Yeah, I hope so.

I'm so stupidly happy for you.

[Despite everything, she loved this woman so much.]

(Lucretia's expression softens, and she grins, sheepish.)

Thank you Lup. I'm pretty stupidly happy too. (Emphasis on the stupid because presumably an opportunity to leave will present itself to either of them and Lucretia knows she would take it without hesitation, even if it means leaving Beverly behind, and vice versa. But that's also something she Isn't Thinking About right now sooooooo)

Are you happy, Lup? Being here, I mean?

[She makes a little pleased sound at her affirmation, and Lup is grinning at Lucretia. Her best friend deserved so much happiness, and man... it had been ages since she had a date, right?

Then Lucretia asks if Lup is happy here, and she looks thoughtful.]

I think so? I like the place and I like the people, but it feels like another cycle? I mean... it feels a little like the others died and we're having a good time exploring this place until we have to go.

[She shrugs.]

...or maybe that's just because I miss Barry. Especially now with the memories I just got. He was always there even after he died the last twenty-ish cycles, and I think I got a little spoiled not having to wait.

[Lup groans.]

Shit, that was so sappy, I'm sorry. Delete that, feed it to Junior.

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