>>5832914You looked to her, eyes wide.
“I’ve figured out how to move beyond <Dimension Door>… To <Plane Shift>,” she said. “But I… I’m not sure if I know how to… What my strategy is when I get there.”
(Her SURVIVAL strategy, she meant.)
She looked t you, hope in her teary eyes.
“And I don’t want to go alone,” she admitted, and in spite of what the Archmage had warned you of—what you’d even perhaps started to believe, she added: “I want you to come with me. Away from… All this.”
What did you tell her?
>You told her about your new spell, and its potential and limitations, just as you’d originally planned, and worked with her to formulate a plan to leave this world>You told her about your new position as her adoptive mother’s apprentice, and as future Head Chimericist, and tried to talk her down and to keep her safe here while you learned JUST a little bit more about magic and her own origins>You told her about everything that was going on outside the Tower—about the demons, and the scale-plague—and tried to persuade her of your mutual and collective responsibility to help deal with it rather than running away>You told her that she needed to abandon these unhealthy flights of fantasy and accept reality—that you were here as her friend, but that based on what your spell could do and what you'd learned abut the demonic nature of Izirina's conception, you could not teach the spells needed to leave this world or modify her body>Write-in 