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Jane tells everyone what happened regarding the Alethian afterlife.
And little tidbits about surrounding events, too.
Bella has been hanging out in the Jarvis she knows better, mentally composing a treaty for the Vxaabli demons, and as she hears the story she slowly, slowly tenses up like a spring.
cross_and_bow
cross_and_bow
Later, when hugs are concluded, the treaty has been written and conjured and sealed with the largely invented symbols of Bella's status as a foreign negotiator and sent to the Vxaabli, and Bella is alone -
she goes down to the basement in which there is a Tony.
she goes down to the basement in which there is a Tony.
toblameforit
Tony is doing something that involves pouring molten metal into a mold! He will probably be available for conversation in a minute when he's finished.
toblameforit
And indeed, as soon as the thing he's making no longer requires his immediate attention, he turns to her and waves.
"Hi!"
"Hi!"
cross_and_bow
"You going to power something in particular with it or is this mostly an exercise left to the reader out of the Being A Tony Textbook?"
toblameforit
He laughs. "Well, I mean, who wouldn't want a cute little cold fusion reactor to take home and feed and play with?"
toblameforit
"It's not inconceivable that someday I might have an arc reactor where I have to give it new reaction material every so often."
cross_and_bow
"Fair enough." She hops into the air, crosslegged like she's sitting there. "I don't talk to you that much so I don't actually know what you heard about the thing with Steph. What did you hear about the thing with Steph?"
toblameforit
"...I don't know, which details do you want me to have got?" He scratches his head. "I mean, Sherry told me stuff. I just don't remember it all exactly."
cross_and_bow
"Nothing specific. Just, Steph seems relevant to him being - not too okay. And I have been thinking about that lately and it occurs to me that you might have relevant insights."
toblameforit
"Yeah, I bet I do," he agrees. "But I don't know what they are yet. What're you thinking?"
cross_and_bow
"Ineffectual guilty thoughts," says Bella. "I don't know what to do. I hate having things that are bad that I don't know how to fix."
toblameforit
"...So you know the part where the majority of his problems are basically my fault, right?"