[I am! What is it?]

Brilliance teleports to Aurora.

Aurora wraps up Brilliance in a hug. [Gonna make a Device body for Jane so Aegis can stop carrying her around everywhere, thought you might want to consult.]

Snuggle!

[Interesting. I don't think anyone's made a Device to incorporate an existing consciousness before. Adularia and I will be happy to help - where should we go?]

[My door came out in the rainbowsand village, can you find me here?]

Into Milliways they go, and then from the door to the Belltower. "Aegis'll be back with Sue soon."

"Hiiii," says the Belltower speakers. "Pardon me for not producing a face, I am refactoring a couple yottabytes, I am scraaaaambled. I totally have a face picked out, though, people have seen it, I'm pretty."

"You are very pretty," Brilliance agrees.

"This body thing," Jane says, "kind of weirds me out, will I have to do anything with it or can I just stash it on the top floor and let it collect dust?"

"The idea is that the Device will be very low-maintenance. I have the impression you want it human-looking, though? Since you have a face picked out?"

"I don't want to look like anyone besides my face," says Jane. "If it's more convenient to put me in a Janegem or something that's fine, I just don't want to look like a person and not like my face."

"Devices don't have, like, bodily needs," says Brilliance.

"More complex ones do tend to have humanoid forms available, but they also all have object-type ones," says Agent Honey. "If we managed to put you in a Device, it could certainly spend all its time as a Janegem if you preferred."

"Okay. I mean, maybe I will like some things that can go on with bodies, if I try them, but I'm not impatient to give them a whirl or really expecting it even if I do."

"Food is awesome," says Brilliance. "So is sex, but I think that one might actually be less universal."

"Sue sent me a lot of stuff when I first talked to him and Aegis and it was informationally interesting, but not really compelling. Not that he had perfect recall or a particularly positive sexual history then, but none of the sensory stuff grabbed me at all. Are his transmissions low-fi or something?" She is apparently unscrambled enough to be a face now; she appears on the screen.

"Beats me," shrugs Brilliance. "What's holding him up, anyway? Aegis went to get him, right?"

"Hang on, unscraaambling - oh, he's on TV, hiiiii Daaaaaad... Probably can't get away right now. This thing iiiiis scheduled to eeeend in - a minute - and - looks like him being able to teleport is common knowledge - and there's nothing else down on his schedule for a bit - so - after however long it takes him to reunite with Aegis I guess - he should be all set to come here."

"Yeah. Hey, if you guys make me a body to be in does that mean I have extra sortaparents? That'd be weird."

Brilliance shrugs. "Up to you, I think."

"I'm not even supposed to talk to you," observes Jane, as though she is remembering something from very far away, "I might scare you."

"I think we can put that on hold until this thing's sorted out."