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"The part where someone managed to kidnap War and Peace definitely didn't get out," says Merryweather, shaking his head.

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"It is adorable how you and Sue are War and Peace, Aegis. Or vice versa."

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"They couldn't make up their minds for a while but I think I've been given Peace once and for all at this point. That's why I named the world that. I don't really want to go by it in casual conversation. I still like Aegis better for that."

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"If Sue had been Peace and you War, would you have named your world War?"

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"Nah," scoffs Aegis, "that would be terrible, I'd have to think of something else then. Or name it Peace anyway."

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"Yes," says Merryweather, "it's practically inconceivable that you would name your world after anyone other than yourself."

Giles snorts.
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"Hey, we don't all name our worlds after ourselves," laughs Aegis. "I think I'm the only one who did, unless you count Golden translating her theme into Latin!"

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"Angela didn't even rename hers. She just took what her planet was already called and extended it to the world in general."

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"I," says Golden with dignity, "am fond of my theme. And it is a more aesthetically pleasing distinguishing characteristic than 'Here There Be Vampires, Except Not Juliet's Kind'."

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Merryweather just laughs.

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"Having fun?" Aegis asks him, amused. "Apparently parties are a thing Bells can do. Or at least Stella. I've never tried it, I've been in a kinda party-unfriendly environment."

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"I generally leave my parties to Alice - mine, not Stella's - who has much more fun with them than I do," Golden says.

"Speaking of which," Jasper "Jazz" Cullen says to Whitlock, "do you want to meet my wife and our son, or would that be weird for you?"
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"Sure," Whitlock decides. "Can't be any weirder than coming here in the first place."

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Alice does not have to be called over. She's Alice! She dances into Jasper's waiting arms from her conversation all the way across the room (its ending, of course, timed perfectly), holding onto a squirming toddler. "Hello!" she says, beaming brightly. "I'm Alice, and this is Brandon. I would offer to let you hold him, but he occasionally bites."

"Only sometimes," says Brandon. "You're another Papa," he observes of Whitlock.
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"Apparently so," Whitlock agrees, blinking. "Hello, Alice and Brandon."

Merryweather is amused. Giles picks up on the mood without sharing its causes.
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"Little half-vampires are super-cute," says Aegis. "So, there's you with your kid, Golden, and there's Angela expecting with her Whistle, I guess all that's left is for somebody with a Sherlock to get knocked up and we'll have collectively tried all the known combinations? Juliet, who do you think'll be first, you or Shell Bell?"

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"I don't know, we haven't exactly sat down and discussed it, but she's the one with the stable empire, I have like five thousand species of demons to individually evaluate and handle before I can claim anything like that," shrugs Juliet. "I'm also not sure kids are a want for me? For us in general?"

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"I would have wanted one eventually. There were other decisive factors in the earliness of Elspeth's birth."

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"And Angela belongs to a species with fewer than a hundred fifty members and grew up on repopulation rhetoric, right," says Aegis. "Duly noted."

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This is not a conversation that either of the Ruperts particularly wants to be a part of! They exchange a Look.

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That's okay, the Bells are done talking about it now!

"Thank you for shouting at bureaucrats for me," Aegis tells Merryweather. "Even if it didn't always work."
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"You're welcome," says Merryweather, a little wryly.

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