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[hattrickery]

When the scroll turns on, it shows Hayate, sitting in her cloud shack and looking thoughtful, her wings rustling in contemplation.

"So, uh...today I realized something. It's been eight months since I showed up here, you know? And in all that time, I haven't died once. This is the longest I've ever gone without getting killed!"

Her wings shudder briefly before fully extending.

"It's actually kind of weird, really, and I'm not sure how to deal with it. Like, what if I get out of the habit? I mean...I'd have to relearn how to fight and everything! So, uh...anyone got any good tips? Where can a girl go to get killed around here?"

...uh-huh.

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[hattrickery]

Hayate's eyebrows raise up as her wings flare out in surprise.

"Three days? That's...unheard of."

[tinkertytonk]

What? Bertie is more confused than ever. "H-how long does it usually take for you?"

[hattrickery]

"Well, if Sanjo's on top of things, it takes him like ten seconds to cast Kazing...if there's a total wipe, though, it might take...I dunno, half an hour?"

She folds her wings back in as she contemplates.

"Most of that is travel time, I'm pretty sure."

[tinkertytonk]

How can death be something so ephemeral? He knows Hayate's an angel, but is the rest of her group, too? And what the deuce is this 'Kazing' business. "You burst into rainbows when you die. If there's some sort of spell meant to hit you after that, you're not exactly about for the thing."

[hattrickery]

She is, in fact, the only angel in her group.

Or her world, really.

"...that sounds...really bad. Like, just off the top of my head, I can think of maybe three things powerful enough to pull something like that off and they are all the sundered fragments of God."

[tinkertytonk]

Hasn't Hayate heard any of this before? "That's what the Pale Pony is, isn't she? Some sort of monster, god thingummy that eats universes like Queen Melissa's and hops it to the next to start bothering that one." He pauses because that raises a very confusing question. "Wait... the Pale Pony's evil. Why is she bringing us back to life?"