melancholia survives & as she’s magically stable, but just slightly emotionally unhinged, the new-found elders decide to send her along to valkyrie in america --- à la you saved her life, so she’s your problem now --- as their condition to not erase her memories. neither of the women is particularly happy with the arrangement, but with no alternatives ( & , given their past, not much room to argue ) they manage. somehow. although melancholia’s initial intention was to be as obnoxious as possible & to annoy the shit out of her former rival as payback for letting her live without magic, she finds the routine they fall into quickly almost ... comforting . time passes. they get a dog. life is --- dare she say it --- good , for the first time ... ever .