Shenanigans! Is a great word, it really is. Hi again! :D

Heh, as you are probably well aware, I'm sort of making this all up as I go, so I have no concrete rules about how their magic works. Well, I have some, a very small amount, that I can't figure out how to put into words, so... They don't really exist, perse... It's a bother. But you are so wonderful for letting me play around with it. :D And Curdle, I'm making his stuff up too as we go. Fun times. 

I am totally ready and willing to milk this situation for all it is worth in building up our characters and developing their first/second/onward impressions of each other and how they choose to deal with the situation and each other. Because, it is a pretty good moment for that, I mean... they pretty much can't escape each other, unless she inadvertently scrubs him from existence, and I honestly have no idea if she could or not. Heh. It's possible. :P

BUt using the moment for developing their interactions with each other is the key point. Secondary to that point, we must figure out how to get them moving in whichever direction we need them to go. Since Miria wouldn't know what Curdle needs her to do without him telling her, and Curdle probably doesn't really know what to do himself, unless he remembers an old story from somewhere or something. It is possible Miria might remember something Tamal once said to her, which could help jog Curdle's memory, too. Or maybe that deer jinni might know how to help, so, thankfully, we do have options, we just need to figure out which one we want to go with. I figure we try to keep as many open as possible so we're not forcing them down one route and hope we can find the choices they'd be making for themselves or the opportunities to toss in what tidbits we need to, to set their thoughts rolling in the right direction. :P

So! Yes, I'll definitely be making sure Curdle at least gives her something to [i]try[/i] to get him out of her head, whether it works or not.... Remains to be seen. Mwahahahaha, I'm horrible. There's a good chance that whichever choice we go with, they'll wind up on their own at least part of the way, though I'm now liking the idea of enlisting that deer jinni's help. 

And, as far as I can think it, yes, if he doesn't get back to his body, it will eventually die, since it's asleep right now and basically in a coma. Another jinni, or people forcefeeding it, might keep it alive indefinitely, but given as he's about to stand trial for the possible killing of Lady Gerun, it is unlikely anyone would bother putting that effort in. So, either way, he's probably got a week or two at most before his body goes. Whether or not his spirit-y, soul thing would last without it, I have not yet decided. It's a difficult decision, but I think I'd prefer Curdle keeping his own body, even so.

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Now then! I've babbled about I think all the other points, if I missed something, poke me about it. Time to babble about my thoughts on getting him back in his body!

1) Easy-peasy (not really) getting him out of her head is as simple as waking up. So, they'd have had to make their plans before she does. Whether or not Curdle can figure out how to get back in his own head shall be left up for debate, because I'm a butt like that. But she'd hopefully know, or he'd be able to get the message to her somehow through magical means and maybe writing in the sand (I'm not even sure he can read, but pictographs are a thing, right?) to have her turn around. And we go from there.

2) He's stuck in her head until she takes him back to his body. Or maybe the deer jinni can help. Anyway, there's some extra step that needs to be taken to get him out, then they have to go back to get his body.

3) I was thinking something with magic (like that's not already happening), wherein sand and names and teleportation of some sort is used, but I don't particularly want to toss in something that big this early in the story. So, I've sort of switched my idea to making him a golem sort of deal. So, there's something to do with shaping a body out of sand which he can 'inhabit' and use to talk until they get to Renna or something like, which would require them working together, though I'm not entirely sure how.

-they might be working together in the same body once she wakes up, somehow brought him with her into the conscious world without getting rid of his thoughts in her head

-or something similar to the first option's actions but with the golem making included, he can't talk in noncorporeal form, or really breathe, and part of Jinn magic does require motion and breath (or at least that's how Curdle knows it, there's more involved but that's the basic foundation), so Miria would probably have to be the one doing certain things, though again, they might enlist the deer Jinni's help

-or in the creation of the sand body and sticking his spirit/essence into it with his name, it becomes flesh and blood while his other body becomes sand

-we could always use this idea for later shenanigans and fun times if it doesn't get used now, I just feel like sand is a great and versatile resource for some reason

4) Alternately, we leave Curdle stuck in Miria's mind, and maybe there's some form of mirror/reflection magic they could use for communication purposes during the day and our story becomes less about magicking Curdle up (and character transformation that way) and more about magicking them both up while they search for separation methods and try not to get caught up in too many problems which we, as the authors, will probably toss them into anyway, :P It's actually doable as a similar arc to what happens in those Rai-kirah stories of Carol Berg's. Except different cuz there's no all powerful dude trying to make them into something else. That'd be all on them, hahaha. >.>

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Clearly, I need to think my options through a little more before I start story arcs, but at least there are ways to get past this. :P

I am a little leery, as I said, of the third one, simply because it's quite a powerful act, and neither of them are experts in this more powerful magic. I mean, half of it is belief and will and instinct, but the other half is very much rules and knowledge, which is awkward as all get out, but it'll probably work once I actually figure it out. So, yeah, can be done, either through accident or remembering an old story or just being extremely wishful, but it's also a lot more magic in the very beginning than I was thinking would happen. So, I dunno if that's necessarily the direction we want to go in or not, but yeah, I'd still be curious to see how it goes even so. Therefore, any of those four work for me. So, if you've got a preference, or if you have different ideas or directions you want to take them in, I'm all ears(eyes?) for that, too. :)

I think I covered everything...