#finw

melancholia survives  &  as she’s magically stable, but just  slightly  emotionally unhinged, the new-found elders decide to send her along to valkyrie in america  ---  à la  you saved her life, so she’s your problem now  ---  as their condition to  not  erase her memories.  neither of the women is particularly happy with the arrangement, but with no alternatives  ( & , given their past, not much room to argue )  they manage. somehow. although melancholia’s initial intention was to be as  obnoxious  as possible  &  to annoy the shit out of her former rival as payback for letting her live without magic, she finds the  routine  they fall into quickly almost  ...  comforting .  time passes. they get a dog. life is  ---  dare she say it  ---  good ,  for the first time  ...  ever .