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[From the angle shown, Ravine is holding the phone away from her face, elbow propped with her chin in the palm of her gloved hand -- and even now, hints of black smoke continue wafting from her hair and coat.

[ Although apparently uncomfortable, she flashes her smile just as she always has.]

"Well, for those who believe themselves capable, I would advise against any attempts at reaching that ninth god beneath the Colosseum the easy way. It leads to some rather ill results."

[She would know.

[Soon her gold eyes shift back to the soft brown most are used to seeing when she is not wearing her sunglasses. Once she is feeling a little better and not radiating black vapors anymore, her stern expression transforms into a smile, her face scrunched in amusement.]

"For anyone not interested in that, however, I have a question!

"Imagine, if you will, that you have been a dead person for thousands of years. It has also been that long since you've ever felt or tasted anything.

"Then imagine if you have been given an opportunity here to be a living, breathing person -- but only for a few days! Would you mind sharing what you would do with that short time in the mortal plane?

"I admit, I am perhaps looking at this from a dead woman's perspective, but it does not appear that there is much to do for the corporeal here when there is not a festival being thrown by our gracious locals. It would be a shame to put such a generous gift to waste."

['But Ravine, why not just ask the gods to make you permanently living?!' one might say.

[Yeah, no, that is the one thing she is not addressing right now, thank you very much.]

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Getting to it would be useless without the pieces. I would recommend going that route first, then concern yourself with reaching the Door.

[Don't mind Ravine. Just nitpicking the little details.]

'S the plan.

( She might not be going diving, on account of not yet being a fantastic swimmer, but she can help out once the fragments are in hand. )

Makes sense to analyse the parts first.

( As much as she itches to get down there, Kate has to keep a cool head about this. There's no point is diving in half cocked when they might be able to learn other things from whatever people pull up. )

Wonder what they'll be...

With any luck, they will not be anything too large or too grotesque. It would be quite unfortunate for those wishing to venture out having to lug whole body parts of an elder god across the ocean.

[Yes, "unfortunate" is exactly the word she should be using to describe that scenario. Good job.]

( Seems legit. )

Y'think?

( It's not like Hadriel is in the business of providing proper rigs to pull up giant pieces of an ancient god, and even with her better-than-human strength, Kate wouldn't enjoy the task of trying to push something heavy through the crushing pressure of the ocean. )

I do more than think.

Good to know.

( She's taking that to mean action, and Kate is a fan of action. )

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