#maybe they only find it after isa's friendquest. or maybe they found it before but think it'll have some new meaning to them

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plural isat au. everything's the same at first except loop is actually just in siffrin's head instead of having the weird, like, meta-telepathy

so sif goes back to the favor tree and he's just like well wait why did i come here again and then they just hear [Hello, Stardust!~] in the back of their mind

the favor tree would probably still be the spot they go to talk at length bc it's more tranquil there, easier to focus on the discussion at hand rather than everything else

i feel like the bigger divergences in terms of plot wouldn't come until very late, but i think that different perspective might at least be fun to write to get up to that point lol