Phillip Durand

You know, it really figured that pretty much right after Phillip and Carden had talked about what they wanted with each other, wanted to stay together even if it meant dealing with Duplicity, thrown out the possibility of being together forever in a very literal sense, that they immediately got separated.

Fucking typical.

Phillip showed back up in his college dorm room a week into term, exactly when he'd left, thoroughly disoriented and not remembering a goddamn thing about what he was supposed to be doing and frankly not super caring. Because it was all well and good to be back home, away from the powers that be of Duplicity, but there was no way in hell he was just going to let Carden slip away that easily. Delaying only long enough to call Mia and update her on what had happened and what he was doing (a conversation that had a lot of 'what the FUCK's on her end of it), he reached deeper into his power than he had ever dared on this world and figured out how to cast himself into the multiverse.

In reality, he kind of didn't know what he was looking for. He had no way to tell if a world he landed on was Carden's or not. It was entirely... by instinct. By feeling. By trying to listen to whatever magic existed in the world and imagining Carden's as part of it, trying to figure out if there was a whisper of it in there.

Phillip had no idea how long it actually look him to find the right one, but he knew it was right the second he materialized on it. There was something about it that just resonated in a way that the others he'd tried hadn't. Now to just... figure out where, exactly, Carden was. The American south was still a big, big place. So first thing was to slip into a female form- she had no idea what the state of homophobia was in this world and didn't want finding him to be ruined by idiots. Then she played a magical game of 'hot or cold': dropping into small towns and usually staying just long enough to confirm Carden wasn't there (and often causing a bit of a stir) before moving on, trying to follow what she thought was the feel of his magic. Hopefully she was right.

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