Cool, cool, cool.

[Taako moves away from Lup, just so he can sit up properly, legs crossed with the canister held loosely in his lap. When he closes his eyes and exhales, it almost looks like he's preparing a meditative nap, but then he opens the canister, and goes still.

On the outside, it doesn't seem to last long, but for Taako almost twenty four hours pass and he sees... a lot. Feels a lot. He sees Barry, back in a body, Magnus back in his. He sees Lup, phantasmal and resplendent, destroying the Hunger's tendril.

He feels his fury and hopeless as he points the umbra staff at Lucretia, and his sheer relief at Lup's return.

The last thing he sees is the circle of black glass as he leaps off the base, Lup and Barry falling below him, and then he's back.]

Fuck. [That was.... indescribable, but as soon as he looks at Lup again he grins.] You fucking idiot, you got your stupid lich form trapped in your own magic umbrella.

[He's laughing, suddenly, because right here and now he has time to process his relief in a way he didn't, back in Fearun. And god is he relieved.]

You've been with me the whole time, Lulu.