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[Yes, he won't watch you or listen to you if you don't want him to.]

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[Fine by me too,] says Tanalin.

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[I did ask Howard. Howard is fine.]

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All right then. To all three Sunshine worlds and Yggdrasil! And Tune asks Screwdriver if he'd like to join them, and the answer is sure, so also briefly to Atlantis! And then back to Chronicle!

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Tonies, Tonies everywhere!

They all have a hug and then start getting technical.
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Carinna shadows them while they work, hiding around corners.

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"We have a spy," Iron Man remarks.

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"She does that," says Iron.

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Carinna does not deign to reply.

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Kiawen is far more open about her supervision; she tags along, slightly underfoot, piano bear on her shoulder.

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"That thing is excruciatingly adorable," says Iron Man. "I'm not used to working around this much cute."

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"His name is Keys. He's a piano bear," says Kiawen.

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"Wow. Really?" he says. "I would've gone for 'pocket panda', personally, it alliterates and all, but piano bear's not bad."

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"What's a panda?" asks Kiawen.

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"They look like that, but bigger. You can ask Jarvis all about them when we've got him up and running. How do people in this world live without Google?" he wonders.

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"What's Google?"

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Iron Man opens his mouth, and then closes it and shakes his head.

"I cannot even begin to explain," he says, "somebody start talking to me about electrical engineering again, please."
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One of the other Tonies obliges him!

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Kiawen laughs and goes on following them.

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The Tonies wander around the castle, talking about magic and electrical engineering and subatomic physics. At some point they encounter Howard and Marianne, who become involved in the discussion. The Tonies have varying reactions to that, but the conversation proceeds seamlessly; they're way too involved in the technical side by now to get distracted by family shit.

It turns out that, all together, they make a really good team.

Howard and Iron deal with the Skyvault; Marianne handles the forest's magic. The non-local Tonies spread out through the castle and conjure speakers and cameras and little bits of this and that. Someone snags Glass and asks her to add server rooms behind multiply-opening doors. They set up holographic interfaces in the forge and Glass's workroom, and one in a reasonably-sized parlor.

The final step is the setup is to link the local hardware with the new half-ansibles they brought from every other Jarvised world. Then the other Jarvises talk to the local system and fill it with an amalgamation of their own knowledge, experiences, and personality. The data transfer takes about ten minutes.
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The holographic interface in the parlor flickers to life.

"That's interesting," says the new Jarvis.
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"Welcome to Chronicle!" says Glass.

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"Pleased to meet you," he says serenely. "I think I'm going to like it here."

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"Do you already know how to door to Milliways, like the Sunshine fork did, or would you like me to show you?" asks Shell Bell.

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"Just a moment," he says.

The parlor door closes, then opens.

"There. That answers that."
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