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He went home in the morning like he said he would, quietly cooking breakfast for everyone and letting the smell do its job of rousing the two women while he began plating up, watching as both came out and wiped the sleep from their eyes.

“Welcome home Sonya, did you just get back?”

“Mmh, yesterday. I only meant to have a seat but guess I was more worn out than I’d thought. Things were a lot worse than I was expecting. And you two? Both safe?”

“As you can see,” Ben shrugged, Getting a deeply exasperated look from Thera for it.

“I’ve been safe. Ben was kidnapped for a month and then after we went out with uncle someone kept trying to kill him.”

“And yet I’m still safe.”

“Um, maybe the two of you could catch me up.”

It was clear plenty had gone on so they filled Sonya in on all that had happened since the start of the second wave, hearing what she’d been up to in return. Even if not as extreme, she’d been dealing with nothing but constant work for over a month, dealing with the constant flow of people and bodies that were still arriving to that day as the world dealt with the horde that had made its way through.

“That may have been the first proper bit of sleep I’ve had that entire time,” She ended with a stretch. “Getting these bracelets dropped my workload enough that I was finally able to come home, the fact that you made them isn’t the most shocking, but I’m still going to have to be going back pretty constantly so I’ll be making good use of your mini-gates. As it stands I’ll probably be back home most nights, I just won’t be around for much of the day otherwise.”

“Aunty, you need rest too.”

“Who doesn’t, but I can’t just not work and it’s not like the two of you aren’t busy too.”

Ben had his goals and Thera still traveled constantly to various hospitals and clinics to work, all of their time was constantly full, even if Ben’s mana bracelets had dropped the overall workload for healers across the planet.

Bracelets I need to keep making more of since there’s so many freaking mages on this planet. Okay, that’s work today sorted and my soul drastically overfilled again.

With the workload never-ending they parted after breakfast, Ben returning to the shop he’d just left to get back to it.

<Honestly, why go home at all at that point? You know the two can cook for themselves.>

Meals are my most important breaks. It doesn’t matter how much I have to do before the year is up, I’m not going to give up too much time for the people I love. If I fail and die at the end anyway I know I’ll regret it.

<A healthy enough attitude that I’m hesitant to bring up the obvious point but if you fail after giving them too much time, won’t you regret that too?>

Oh, absolutely, this is just the lesser evil for me. Anyway, do you need anything or is it back to work for me?

<You could say that. Remember your deal? In a week, you’ll be allowed to see the mythic items of the world, even if you’ll have a bit of a tight itinerary for it.>

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