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Shell Bell goes home with her Sherlock and puts a Jane-point in her floating palace. There's no Internet to speak of in Atlantis right now, but there's a little snack in the moon city - Jane gets a half-ansible plugged into a deserted office terminal and uses Shell Bell's ring to pull away the other half into her Belltower hub - and some in District Three - another half-ansible to this largely self-contained network, this one in Tony and Sherlock's house.
She'll figure out how to announce the imminent return of the dead soon. First, there's a stray Sherlock back in Milliways who may need a merger - depending on how he came to be dead - and who may have a Jarvis at home to be networked with the other one. There's also at least one Jarvis that she's the only Bell to have met - the one belonging to the lone Tony who has no Sherlock to match - and so she's the one who's going to go extend the offer to that one. (And politely inquire if Jane may eat that Internet, too, less Jarvis, and have an ansible point installed. There's no reason for Pattern to have to do all the work. That world might not even be hooked up to Downside already; she should check in with that Tony and with Darcy and perhaps Heimdall about the subject.)
Also -
[Hey, Bells, after we're all settled down some, let's throw a party to celebrate fixing Downside.] Jane can relay through their ansible gems; she counts as being in every world she's got her tendrils into.
[I'll host on Mars,] Stella volunteers at once.
Shell Bell smiles.
She gives her Sherlock a kiss and asks to go back to Milliways to see about some Jarvises.
Jane, ever-obliging, picks her up and puts her down.
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"As long as I'm here, Tony," says Shell Bell, "all us Bells are going to have a big party in Eos, on Mars, in a few hours after some errands like this are out of the way. Do you want to come? Jane can send you there and back."
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"You could bring people, too, if you want," Shell Bell adds. "We keep finding unexpected alts anyway, and even non-alts could have a good time, and Stella's making lots of room."
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"I wanna hang out a bit to see if Darcy wakes up so I can invite her too. Can I do that here?"
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"Also," says Shell Bell, "the party is to celebrate how we have taken over the management of - an afterlife, at least a fairly commonly shared one, but I can tell by looking that it doesn't cover here and you don't have a competing one, but that can be fixed!"
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"We took over the afterlife. An afterlife. There's at least one other. You don't have one, but if the one we manage now is extended to cover this world it's retroactive. I died," she adds. "Not long after we last met I went home and was pretty promptly assassinated. That's how we knew about it. And it was very apathetically run, but we talked to the admin and she let us replace all the judges with Jane and add some rules to make it less hellish and now it's much better than nothing."
"O...kay," says Tony. "Why are you consulting me about this, is my next question. I mean, and: yes. Yes, we should have an afterlife."
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"Well, you're here," Shell Bell points out. "I also consulted you about whether Jane could eat your Internet and you didn't think that was weird, did you?"
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"I was just asking in case there's, like, a reason not to. If there's not Jane can ask the admin to add you right now. Is there anybody who should get jumped out of the queue?"
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"Like, I died, and yet here I am, and I'm going to go home later and see about ways to pick people up out of the afterlife and send them home if home is in Atlantis for them, and the other Bells are going to do the same thing, and we're going to wait till this is all streamlined in ours worlds before we extend the service to others but if you want, like, one or two or ten people to be here instead of waiting in the catacombs Downside, Jane can fetch them for you, as long as it's not too many there doesn't have to be such an orderly system for it."
"..There was this guy I met," he says. "Name of Yinsen. If you could find him, and... well, make sure he's found his family... that'd be great."
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"If him and his family are from this world, right now they're all asleep Downside," Shell Bell says. "They would only have had a chance to wake up if your world had been in the queue earlier. D'you want them just woken up at the same time whenever they come up normally, or do you want them all alive and put here?"
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[Can do, but I need more than one name and a world to go on unless somebody wants to search the catacombs by fancy teleportation,] Jane says. [Got a face for me?]
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[Well, I could staaaare into your soooooul and get it out that way, up to you if you wanna let me,] says Jane. [But the way the great and powerful peal of Bells have things set up him and his loved ones will be able to ask for each other on waking regardless.]