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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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Jane manifests a face on one of her screens. "I'm so glad you think so! I'm also your ride to the party. And the judge of the afterlife."
"Dead people! Right," she says. "Magnus Honey. And Phoebe Honey, but she would've been born a Trunchbull, I'm not sure if that makes a difference to you."
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"The system does birth names, but if she lets me have a closer look at her I can find out things like that. Or there's always asking. Dates of deaths?"
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"Awake," reports Jane, "both, and you're in luck, they're in the higher-rent area. Who shall I say is asking for them?"
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[Magnus Honey and Phoebe Honey-née-Trunchbull,] says Jane, [Bumblebee's daughter is friends with the new management and she's asking for you. If you'd like to return to your world ahead of the queue, you may come to the former guide office and be transported now.]
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[I can relay a call from Bumblebee's daughter, if you like.]
In Coral Palace: "I can bounce whatever you say to them. Magnus says:" Jane switches voices. "Oh! That's lovely. My poor bumblebee. Where is she, do you know?"
In Coral Palace: "I can bounce whatever you say to them. Magnus says:" Jane switches voices. "Oh! That's lovely. My poor bumblebee. Where is she, do you know?"
Matilda giggles. "She's alive, don't worry, you didn't miss her! It's just I'm here and she's not, so I'm the one asking for you."
[We'll be right there,] says Magnus.
[We'll be right there,] says Magnus.
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When they are right there, Jane picks them up and puts them in Coral Palace. "I can put you in your original world as soon as there's a Janepoint there," she says.
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"Thanks, Jane," says Shell Bell. She turns to the newly moved couple. "This is my world. I call it Atlantis. I'm one of the new management."
"It's beautiful," says Phoebe.
Matilda waves.
"Are you my granddaughter?" asks Magnus.
"Adopted," Matilda says cheerfully. "Jenny's going to be so happy to see you!"
Matilda waves.
"Are you my granddaughter?" asks Magnus.
"Adopted," Matilda says cheerfully. "Jenny's going to be so happy to see you!"
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"You want a tour of the palace first, or you want to pop back into Milliways and take 'em home to see Jenny?" asks Shell Bell.
Matilda does choose to open it!
And then she chooses to lead everyone through it, and then she chooses to pull out her phone and call someone.
"Hi, Jenny! Fine, how are you? I brought your parents back from the dead, you should come see them!"
And then she chooses to lead everyone through it, and then she chooses to pull out her phone and call someone.
"Hi, Jenny! Fine, how are you? I brought your parents back from the dead, you should come see them!"
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"If she's far off and teleporting's not a thing you do, I could go fetch her," offers Shell Bell.
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Port. "Hi, Jenny, I'm Shell Bell. I was involved in the back-from-the-dead-thing and now I'm your ride to where they are, you ready?"