"I am not beeping," says Jarvis. "It appears Jane has lost her ansible connection."

"...Well," says Juliet, "do we know when it will be back?"

"We do not. Shall I open a door to Milliways?"

"I'll see if going to Milliways fixes my necklace and if it doesn't I'm just forcing the door directly there." And she teleports rather than crossing the room to the nearest door and pulls it open.

Jarvis ensures that it opens to Milliways.

"Can you door to Alethia? My Sherlock was visiting," says Juliet, nodding.

"Sherlock!" calls Juliet, hanging back; no point wasting a star to go through to the world without making herself a daemon if they're within earshot.

Sherlock appears in front of Juliet and hugs her.

"Six weeks, three days, two hours, eleven seconds," he says into her shoulder. "I missed you terribly. And you should put the word out - daemonlessness wishes wear off after about a week."

Juliet squeezes him tight. "They - they do?"

"Yeah," says Amariah, coming down the stairs. "Hi, guys. Is this the first place you went?"

"Yeah, me and Juliet can get to Milliways without Jane anytime, we ran into each other, she told me Minus was here, I doored here - my Sherlock is checking the Belltower -" [Sherlock, how's the Belltower Janepoint?]

[Disconnected.]

[Damn.]

"They wear off and then - like Sue and Ivy?" Juliet says slowly.

"Well," Amariah says, "Ivy was - deliberate."

"...Is there something wrong, though, somebody tell me."

"My daemon hates herself and wishes she didn't exist."

Juliet relaxes her hold on him briefly for the sole purpose of being able to squeeze him harder again without actually breaking anything.

[Don't push him about her, it's - bad,] Amariah adds privately to Juliet.

Sherlock hugs Juliet some more.

Amariah goes into Milliways. "Let's collect everyone else," she suggests to Shell Bell.

"I'll try Peace, first, maybe Aegis knows what happened," Shell Bell says, and she doors there.

"I don't doubt it," says Sherlock.

"Aegis says she torched," reports Jane a moment later. "I bet that did it, I live there. Wow, I lost some serious time some places - Atlantis is close, Sunshine is close, Peace is only off by three seconds, everything else is longer. Rainbow's not too bad. Aurum and Samaria and Rêverie are worst."

"How long were they out?"

"Samaria's ten years, four months, eight days, Aurum's eleven years, one month, twenty days, and Rêverie's sixteen years, three months, fourteen days. Awww, Rose has a kid with a pet griffin."