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Pattern still doesn't know what her aura does. This is getting annoying. It's not like she's short on stuff to do - she's been writing letters to various heads of state (which appear on their desks or their inboxes by magic or Jane; she wouldn't expect to get through by normal channels) to convince them that she exists and is willing to take immigrants to Saturn and bring back dead people, she's catching up on what her parents and the world have been doing for the last four years, she's chatting through Jane with various other Bells and fielding Downside help requests her share of the time.
But she wants to know what is up with her aura, dangit.
[Hey, Jane, can you ask Stella if I can go visit Eos and talk to her magic seeing guy about my aura? And ask the magic seeing guy if he'd be up for that?]
[Stella says yes,] says Jane after a moment. [And...]
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bellfounding
bellfounding
"Arbitrarily long ago - I could go sifting through the Stone Age - but we're putting the standard cutoff a bit nearer because we don't want to overwhelm the infrastructure. People who have a place to go are mostly going to be people who died not so long ago. But if you have a place to put whoever you have in mind I don't see why you shouldn't have them, as long as you have my attention."
She swallows.
It takes her several tries to say,
"Thomas and Martha Wayne."
It takes her several tries to say,
"Thomas and Martha Wayne."
mind_game
Jane's Janepoint is in this room. She manifests a face. "Those're pretty common names," she says. "I need a date of death to narrow it down."
bellfounding
"Batlady, meet Jane," says Bella. "She does the afterlife sorting and interworld transit."
She closes her eyes and recites the date in a monotone.
bellfounding
"Can you think of any reason I might regret queue-jumping these people?" inquires Bella.
"No."
bellfounding
"Okay. Jane, see if they'll let you check them out anyway."
mind_game
"Sure thing."
Thomas Wayne wakes up first.
[Hello!] says Jane. [This is the afterlife. You and your wife have been nominated for a return to the world of the living. It has been twenty-five years since you died. Please take this pamphlet.] (Jane has been given the ability to generate pamphlets when and where they are needed.) [With your permission, I'd like to vet you for resurrection; this will involve a low-fidelity scan of your memories. I'm a computer program, albeit a very smart one, and won't tell anybody any personal details unless they're relevant to whether it's safe to have you walking around on your Earth again.]
Thomas Wayne wakes up first.
[Hello!] says Jane. [This is the afterlife. You and your wife have been nominated for a return to the world of the living. It has been twenty-five years since you died. Please take this pamphlet.] (Jane has been given the ability to generate pamphlets when and where they are needed.) [With your permission, I'd like to vet you for resurrection; this will involve a low-fidelity scan of your memories. I'm a computer program, albeit a very smart one, and won't tell anybody any personal details unless they're relevant to whether it's safe to have you walking around on your Earth again.]
...He takes the pamphlet.
"...Okay," he says, blinking.
"...Okay," he says, blinking.
He loves his wife. He loves his daughter. He wants to do what's best for his city.
The next words out of his mouth are, "Where's Martha?"
The next words out of his mouth are, "Where's Martha?"
mind_game
[She's next! You check out; just sit tight and I'll have a look at her.]
Martha awakens and gets the same speech and pamphlet, edited where necessary.
Martha awakens and gets the same speech and pamphlet, edited where necessary.
"Fine," she says distractedly, flipping through the pamphlet.
She is just as benign as her husband.
She is just as benign as her husband.
bellfounding
"Maybe Batlady would rather greet them while not in her Halloween costume?" says Bella.
"Put them in Wayne Manor," she says. "It's theirs. I'll - just take me back to Gotham."
bellfounding
"I carry one of her eyes with me but I'd have to, you know, go there, that okay?" Bella says, tapping her earpiece.
"Yes."
bellfounding
Bella nods.
She stealths, teleports the Batlady back to the alley, and teleports into Wayne Manor.
She stealths, teleports the Batlady back to the alley, and teleports into Wayne Manor.
The main hall of Wayne Manor is large and very imposing, and contains one white-haired old man with glasses. He appears to be dusting a statuette.
bellfounding
[Hey, Batlady, cool to appear them in front of this guy in the house who's dusting or should I put them in another room?]
[...I'm sure he'd appreciate being warned first.]