darkest_evening | Overnight

There are things to do, of course, besides being Aya's cuddle buddy. Prime is usually quite busy, and now is no exception. Just because he's personally out of mana, doesn't mean he's utterly useless. His plane's got mages in it, after all - and many of them owe him favors or are amenable to being paid. And they need mirrors, for communication. After longer than was strictly prudent spent comforting Aya, he bids her goodbye and goes to handle the less glamorous moments of being him. That is, talking to people, asking for favors, paying favors, persuading them to say yes, they'll use some of their precious magic stores to make mirrors.

Ironically enough, the one thing missing when he's finished is the mirrors themselves. Easy enough to fix, with Revelation. But he'll take care of it tomorrow - he's tired, and it's been a long and complicated and emotionally exhausting 'day,' even if he doesn't properly have them anymore. Sleep, and then he'll get back to dealing with it all. The mirrors, first, they're easiest, then continuing to figure out what to do about Aya.

When he wakes, he goes to talk to a demon about that. Knock, knock, calling Inferno, is Revelation in?

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darkest_evening

But, as it turns out, there's more than just Zane and a dad in the secret dad bunker. Multiple circles, neat and orderly.

Prime eyes them.

".... Those have Spring's name in them," he observes.

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questions_later

"Yeah, apparently murder doesn't work. Also, she didn't get kickass immortality and powers. Just death and subsequent resurrection. So. Bummer."

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darkest_evening

"Oh," says Prime, poker face not even cracking at this new delightful knowledge.

His emotions are complicated. Someone just died and was resurrected. Aya just died and was resurrected. Regardless of the other circumstances, that can't have been pleasant, and Prime's good at telling his feelings to shoo for a while so he can focus on more important things. He picks up the hurt at not being told and the worry over how it affected her and the desire to tell Aya that she should never lock him out of the loop while he's asleep again, and puts them into a neat little box in his mind to deal with when it's appropriate. Right now - she just died. That is probably upsetting.

He retrieves the mirrors, drops them off, and then goes to see if Aya needs a hug.

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namesthesky

Aya answers the door.

She smiles a little, when she sees him.

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darkest_evening

"Hey," he says, for lack of a better idea.

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namesthesky

"Hi. Do you want to come in?"

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darkest_evening

"Sure."

He's torn somewhat between seeing if she'll tell him herself, or being frank and honest and starting with, 'Also I'm aware that you tried suicide and it didn't work, and it seems like you scheduled that for when I was not here.' Let's - not bombshell her, to start with. He needs to get out of the habit of doing that.

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namesthesky

She lets him in. She shuts the door. She sits down.

"It didn't work."

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darkest_evening

"I know. I'm sorry. Would you like a hug?"

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namesthesky

She nods and leans into him.

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darkest_evening

He hugs her.

Is there a way to word what he wants to say without being confrontational? At all? In any way? He doesn't want to get into a fight, he understands why. He just - doesn't want it to happen again. Both the 'death' bit and the 'Let's not actually tell Prime before the suicide and subsequent summoning' bit. More the second, the first she's free to do if she really wants to.

"How are you doing?" he asks, because he's still trying to figure out wording in his head, and also her mental health is important to him.

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namesthesky

She shrugs. "Nothing much has changed except now we know it doesn't work."

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darkest_evening

"Okay," he says. There's a - pause as he tries to get his thoughts in order. It is surprisingly difficult to turn back on the 'tact' switch after very thoroughly turning it off. "Did you not want me to be there...?"

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namesthesky

"I - it - I knew how to get myself through it but it bothered you too and I didn't - know how to -"

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darkest_evening

"All right," murmurs Prime, soothingly. "It's okay."

(It's not, but there is exactly nothing he will gain from yelling at her.)

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namesthesky

Snuggle.

"And if it'd worked you'd have just - you'd have woken up and everything would be back to normal. Except possibly I'd be a demon or something."

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darkest_evening

"Yes. But - if a a similar situation should occur in the future - please tell me beforehand?"

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namesthesky

"Okay."

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darkest_evening

"Thank you."

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namesthesky

"You're welcome."

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darkest_evening

Hugs are easy, so he'll keep doing those.

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namesthesky

Snuggle.

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darkest_evening

"I poked various mages at my home to agree to spelling mirrors," he says, conversationally, because this is the sort of thing she would probably like to be informed of. "Zane made them, I handed them off before I came here."