[There you go.]

[Then if someone does want to live with one of us, we'll talk to them about it.]

[Okay! I'll ask around next time somebody pokes me about it.]

[How much does someone have to live in one of you to count? Bells don't spend all that much time at home.]

[We're not exactly mobile, and tend to get lonely when unoccupied.]

[So maybe not a Bell after all, unless the building was serving another function... What about non-house places? I know Aegis is planning to set up a station with a space elevator in it to process dead people and send them home. How would you feel about being a space station? With living quarters in it for Aegis and Sue but not necessarily them in it too often.]

[Being a space station would be... interesting.]

[I have lots of hardware in some space stations! Want a snapshot?]

[I'm not sure it would be the same, but all right.]

Jane sends a minute's accumulated data from the Battle School station. It's less populated now, but there are still personnel there.

[Hm,] says Jarvis. [But would anyone there know I existed?]

[If it was Aegis's and you didn't just quietly move into this one, yeah. Peace is higher tech than Sunshine worlds. Computer programs that can talk intelligently aren't unheard of, I'm just the first one to wake up.]

[Talking to people who are unaware of my awareness gets very wearing,] Jarvis says dryly.

[The space station is going to be for processing dead people,] Jane reminds him. [Who meet me before they go anywhere.]

[We might try it, then.]

[Cool. I think as long as Aegis is synced with my Belltower hub nobody will lose significant time, and she's usually here. I guess nobody lives in the Belltower, though, hmmm.]

[We could install ourselves in the Belltower just to be there for the occasional event, I suppose. I'm not sure how that would affect the time-syncing property.]

[There's not good data on it, but all the Sunshine-type worlds plus Yggdrasil show the same time. My clock in the Belltower matched Sunshine after Juliet opened a door; my clock in Atlantis matched when Shell Bell came in, and once the Belltower clocked snapped to my clock in Peace I was awake again and had all my stuff back. If Peace and the Belltower had never unsynced I think I wouldn't have lost hold of it.]

[I suppose there is only one way to find out.]

[Yep!]

[I wonder if it would be worth testing. Although I hesitate to imagine the tests.]

[Yeah, the Belled worlds all got off easy compared to some of the other places. One world is a century ahead of where I left it. Still no Internet, though.]

[Perhaps that will be for the Bells to decide.]

[Guess so. They seem to be working on making sure Aegis never torches again, though. People keep wandering by to lay more wishes and enchantments on her. Sarion cooked up something elfmagey, and Amariah gave her a complement of cloudpine-witch spells and tattoos, and Cam spoke a bunch of wizard wards for her, and Aurora's going to do something sorcerous once Brilliance is available to help her with it, too.]