She goes, wearing a +2/+2/+2 headband that she was granted not long ago.

Abrogail has by this time deduced that the Goddess's magic obeys some of the same limitations as mortal Wishes, about how far it can go, which in turn increases the chance that she was originally amped to +5s and then cursed back down, if the Goddess knew in advance when She first laid Her plans that Abrogail would be adequate to them.  Possibly the Goddess, or K̵e̵l̶t̷h̴a̸m̸ if he also became a god, did indeed crack diamond agglomeration; and Abrogail was at some point subjected to the ministrations of Efreet, here or by being transported temporarily to the City of Brass while she slept, to save on the Goddess's interventions or even Her true effort.  It's only one hypothesis among many, but she considered it explicitly; it doesn't hurt to consider mutiple hypotheses, and is the sort of mental habit that might have saved past-Abrogail-who-was a very great deal of pain.

There is a different kind of pride about her, now.
It cannot replace what she lost.
But it is the kind of pride where she actually does accept that she brought that loss upon herself.
She could list out every one of her reasoning errors, one by one.

She goes, wearing a +2/+2/+2 headband that she was granted not long ago.

Abrogail has by this time deduced that the Goddess's magic obeys some of the same limitations as mortal Wishes, about how far it can go, which in turn increases the chance that she was originally amped to +5s and then cursed back down, if the Goddess knew in advance when She first laid Her plans that Abrogail would be adequate to them.  Possibly the Goddess, or K̵e̵l̶t̷h̴a̸m̸ if he also became a god, did indeed crack diamond chemistry; and Abrogail was at some point subjected to the ministrations of Efreet, here or by being transported temporarily to the City of Brass while she slept, to save on the Goddess's interventions or even Her true effort.  It's only one hypothesis among many, but she considered it explicitly; it doesn't hurt to consider many hypotheses, if you trust yourself more to evaluate them, and that is the sort of mental habit that might have saved Abrogail-Thrune-who-was a very great deal of pain.

There is a different kind of pride about her, now.
It cannot replace what she lost.
But it is the kind of pride where she actually does accept that she brought that loss upon herself.
She could list out every one of her reasoning errors, one by one.

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She goes, wearing a thin +2/+2/+2 circlet that she was granted not long ago.

Abrogail has by this time deduced that the Goddess's magic obeys some of the same limitations as mortal Wishes, about how far it can go, which in turn increases the chance that she was originally amped to +5s and then cursed back down, if the Goddess knew in advance when She first laid Her plans that Abrogail would be adequate to them.  Possibly the Goddess, or K̵e̵l̶t̷h̴a̸m̸ if he also became a god, did indeed crack diamond chemistry; and Abrogail was at some point subjected to the ministrations of Efreet, here or by being transported temporarily to the City of Brass while she slept, to save on the Goddess's interventions or even Her true effort.  It's only one hypothesis among many, but she considered it explicitly; it doesn't hurt to consider many hypotheses, if you trust yourself more to evaluate them, and that is the sort of mental habit that might have saved Abrogail-Thrune-who-was a very great deal of pain.

There is a different kind of pride about her, now.
It cannot replace what she lost.
But it is the kind of pride where she actually does accept that she brought that loss upon herself.
She could list out every one of her reasoning errors, one by one.