Video; Pretty much right after the Queen of Hearts illusion goes down

[unrecovered]

[First on the screen is Wash, brightly lit by the glowing Bond Engine, looking tired and excited and relieved and honestly just...overwhelmed. Today has been a goddamn Day, hasn't it.]

Soooo. The Bond Engine works, I'm pretty sure we have magic back, we went on the ship, and...

[The video turns around to reveal a voidfish - smaller, but still very much a voidfish - waving a tentacle at them.]

There's another voidfish down here. I...think it's a baby.

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[eudaimonikos]

They've all been, lately.

[But on the grand scale of Michael's life, that's like having a couple of particularly life-changing weeks. A year...that can be a lot to a human, he suspects.]

Are you...okay? [WAIT PAUSE SERIOUS TALK TIME TO WAVE TO THE BABY] Just, uh, generally?

[unrecovered]

[...right. Demon. Attempting to restructure the afterlife before getting yanked to Faerun. Michael's sliding scale of weird is a little different than Wash's.]

[That's a question he honestly isn't expecting, and he needs to take the time - provided to him by an enthusiastic tiny voidfish, evidently, thanks - to actually think about it. Is he okay?]

[Well, he's spent the past year having his memories fucked with, which is fucking great. He'd just helped bring back magic, which - despite his personal misgivings - actually is fucking great. He's just found out Lucretia has been hiding a voidfish baby, which means his memories are likely still being fucked with. Also evidently it's been a year and now the Hunger is just about knocking on their door?]

[Also Karsus is alive and at fault for at least a chunk of all this.]

I...don't...know. Today has been a lot.

[And it's not even close to being over yet.]

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah...yeah.

[This is very true. Michael ducks his head a little, nodding. He doesn't like being on this side of it very much - but the fact that he's been on the other side multiple times helps contextualize it a little differently for him. Maybe he deserves having his memories fucked with a little.]

Well. You don't have to deal with it by yourself or anything, alright? I'll come with you if you're going to go...have any confrontations.