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Bella's mid-conversation with Jane when she cuts out.
[Jane?]
Jane... pretty much fails to exist.
[Jane.]
Nothing.
Bella goes to the Janepoint, and there's a message for her on the screen, something about lost ansible connection.
Well, shit.
[Queenie, Ghosty, Slipstick?]
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"Okay, so you maybe have friends, there goes my afternoon, huh?" [Queenie, you want I should set this guy up somewhere other than the existing terraformed asteroid?]
bellfounding
[Okay, I'll pick another spot, not like we're low on asteroids.]
"Do you have anything to say that might convince me not to put you in a space prison colony?" inquires Bella.
"Do you have anything to say that might convince me not to put you in a space prison colony?" inquires Bella.
"Of course not," says but-a-man.
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"All right, don't say I didn't warn you," says Bella. She teleports him temporarily to an empty residential section of Saturn and then teleports to a good-sized Jovian moon (no point putting her prisoners right on top of her citizenry) and installs basic terraforming before going to fetch him. She decides to wait for a reaction before installing anything beyond atmosphere and livable temperature to the place.
"Comfortable," he rumbles.
bellfounding
"Mm-hm. Any preferences on the accommodations beyond 'not instantly fatal'? I'm not interested in doing you harm, I just can't have people nuking stuff."
He shakes his head.
bellfounding
"Well, welcome to your not instantly fatal new home, I'm going to go round up some more revolutionaries, you'll have company," Bella shrugs. And she stealths and teleports to whoever may meet the description of this guy's second-in-command.
There fails to be such a person.
bellfounding
Who was the first other person to find out about the plan with the nuke-explainer, then?
A very pretty woman walking along a mostly empty street.
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Bella follows her and faaaaaades slowly out of stealth mode; her aura cooperates as long as she's just withdrawing it instead of switching modes. She stops when she still attracts significantly less notice than she should; she doesn't really want passerby attention. But someone walking right behind you should catch anyone's notice, even if they've got a little magic suggesting you look away. Especially when they say:
"Excuse me."
"Excuse me."
The woman walks faster without answering. This is an entirely reasonable reaction if someone is following you closely on a Gotham street.
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"You know the guy who just brought a nuke to the stadium," Bella states.
No reaction.
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Bella sighs. "Okay, we can have the rest of this conversation on Ganymede, maybe that will help."
She teleports the lady to Terraformed Prison Colony Ganymede, within eyeshot of but not right next to Bane.
She teleports the lady to Terraformed Prison Colony Ganymede, within eyeshot of but not right next to Bane.
Despite herself, she looks at Bane and gasps.
bellfounding
"So yeah, I'm not a random person who decided to follow you down the street," Bella says, folding her arms, "I'm a powerful busybody and I have some questions."
The woman draws herself up and looks at Bella in cold silence.
bellfounding
"I am completely prepared to leave you on Ganymede forever. Would you like to produce any reason for me not to do that?"
She says nothing.
bellfounding
"Okay then."
Bella looks for the next person to find out about the plan in much the same way.
Bella looks for the next person to find out about the plan in much the same way.
A highly suspicious underground chamber that both looks and smells like it is part of a sewer system!
bellfounding
Well, that's gross!
Who all's here and what are they up to?
Who all's here and what are they up to?