Jace and Vraska plan a heist.
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* Jace and Vraska recover under the care of the former's mother, Ranna. She and Jace reconnect and he explains what happened to him. She asks if Vraska is his wife, and Jace doesn't hate the idea.
* Everyone on Vryn assumed that Jace died at the same time as Alhammarret.
* Jace's parents separated. Vryn has been nothing but war since Jace left, with militias taking over, then other militias ousting them, etc. War has changed her too.
* Later, Vraska and Ranna connect.
* Much later, Jace and Vraska stand in front of an Omenpath. They heard about it through Ranna, who met a kor that came through it at the hospital.
* Rather than being excited like Ranna was, Jace and Vraska can only think of how much damage Bolas did with just one portal. There's nothing stopping conquerors from invading planes, nothing to keep threats contained.
* Jace and Vraska are sick of repairing, though. They talk about settling down and adopting a child, since they know they can't have children (implication is humans and gorgons are incompatible, but many consider this further proof of the trans male Jace theory).
* Then Jace has another idea, something other than fixing the Multiverse, thinking of how Ranna used phoenix feathers to heal them.
* They talk more over the next few months, growing more convinced about the idea that the Multiverse needs to be reborn.
* Flashback to nine years ago. Jace is working under Tezzeret, who is working under Bolas, and gets orders to investigate the vault on Thunder Junction. He can't get through, but he telepathically senses a child inside. Reporting back to Tezzeret, he disdainfully calls it another weird kid, and they never talk about it again.
* Two years ago, months after War of the Spark, he asks Tamiyo about the vault and she tells him what she knows.
* In the present, Jace and Vraska prepare to leave, with promises to visit Ranna once a week. However, Vraska discovers she can no longer planeswalk, so they go back to Ranna's house. They weep over the meaninglessness of it all.
* One year ago, on Eldraine (Wilds of Eldraine story), Jace disguises himself as Ashiok since he knows no one would question his actions in that form, and frees Eriette.
* Six months ago, on Ixalan (Lost Caverns story), Vraska reunites with her old crew.
* Last month on Ravnica (Murders story), Jace needs to analyze Detective Proft's ability to project psychic prints onto reality. As such, he hits him with a pipe and rummages in his mind.
* Now, after the events of the Thunder Junction story, Vraska meets up with Jace with the child retrieved from the vault (there's a contradiction here with the OTJ story since it acts like Jace wasn't there at the vault; an illusion maybe?).
* The child can't speak, but he understands English and gives permission for Jace to read his mind. First of all, his name is Loot. Second, his mind contains an actively updating map of the Multiverse, including Omenpaths and how they all connect.
* They stay at a Thunder Junction hotel and Jace asks Vraska if she's heard of some of the locations he's finding in Loot's map. When asked about Qarsi on Tarkir, Vraska recommends the food, and Jace goes to get some, bringing it back there.
* Tomorrow, they plan to go to a plane that won't see them coming. The reborn Multiverse they'll be making will be better.
Jace plans on remaking Magic so it's nothing but crossovers with other IPs, clearly.
Anyway, good story.
