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"Come in," Tian Yue said, simply, gesturing for Xing Yun to go ahead and prepare the room for guests. She nodded and ducked back into the living area, straightening the papers and making everything presentable in one fell swoop of efficiency.

"I am." The distance didn't go unnoticed but she chose not to mention it and made her way back to the couch. The goddess resettled herself with Domino in her lap. The cat seemed considerably calmer than he had been, no doubt glad to be out of the backpack and with someone more familiar. She scratched him between the ears, wondering just where to begin with all this.

"Do you remember the last time you saw me, when I seemed hesitant and unsure...like I was hiding something?" Tien thought her host-self had done well, but Ser was always more observant than most gave her credit for. She lifted a hand up to touch the side of her face, feeling for a mask, her usual security that wasn't there. She felt oddly vulnerable admitting all of this.

"Well, I was hiding something, because I couldn't explain what was going to happen. I didn't even really know what was going to happen."

"Yeah i remember" Ser sat down on the ground across from Tien not really feeling comfortable indoors again yet. She rested her check on hand as it fiddled with her hair. "But I thought it had to do with...” Ser’s eyes flicked over the Tian yue. “Private matters of self discovery. How did you end up God? I mean you were mortal right?”

Ser twitched as she saw the scars on Tien’s arm. I don’t think you can take who ever did that! I know. She bit her lip and swallowed hard not liking the thought of her friend being hurt. She was still for a moment while she was thinking. The cat likes her and she took Morgan’s form, but she’s not going out with Tian yue anymore and she changed her name. Ser jumped up and shook her head messing her hair with both hands. “Did Morgy become Tien? Or are you a stranger who replaced my friend?"

"We are both a blend of our mortal selves - our hosts - and the gods in the gems those hosts bore," Tian Yue interjected, gently. The concept was more than familiar to him, though when he was newly reborn it would have felt strange in his mind. Now, though, himself-Crispin and himself-Shaiming had truly become one, neither mortal exalted nor ancient and weary god. "Morgan as she was knew that this would happen, and she... welcomed it."

He glanced at Tien as he spoke, hoping that was not overstepping his boundaries.

She smiled at Tian Yue and laid an arm over Ser's shoulders, hugging her in return. Thank you. Her friend probably would not have understood if he hadn't spoken up. "I missed you too, Ser...and you can, if you like." In a way the name still fit and yet not at the same time. She considered it to be one of her (possibly too many) names regardless.

Ser held on to Tien for another moment before releasing her old friend. She sat down properly on the coach though closer than most people would to Tien. "That’s good learning to call you something else would be really hard Morgy." She said leaning a bit on Tien.

She looked over to Tian Yue as he spoke up. In her excitement to have Morgy back she had forgotten he was even still in the room for a moment. She looked down at her feet shuffling them nervously. "I don't know really. I saw the gardens and I went out to find them. I managed to get outside but I never found the gardens." She bobbed her head back and forth bit as she tried to remember anything specific about where she had ended up. "It's a lot easier to get lost here then the city was. No police stations to check in at to bring me home." She laughed nervously rubbing the back of her head with her hand. Her ability to get lost was better than anyone’s and one of the only reasons even Morgan had gotten mad at her for time to time. "Though if this is really the same please i started luck was not on my side. I have a hard time my way when the location doesn't do a complete landscape change."