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Here is Aurum. Harley is home again.
"I minted you," Elspeth murmurs to him, sending a notice to the Joker that he's got a new alt he could choose to entertain because she's busy and teleporting herself and her ward to their living room in Québec. "And stuck it on."
her_imperial_radiance
subtly_artistic
"Yeah. So - Elspeth, I hear you're good at summarizing things? Can you get me up to speed on all the things?"
Harley pops in and out a few times, back and forth from the Gentle Cave. Sue occupies himself encouraging Harley and listening in on Celo's exploits.
Eventually, Sue sends Aether a quick heads-up and Celo appears, hair slightly mussed but as sparkling clean as usual, with a big grin on his face.
"Yeah, I think I've got the hang of this shit," he says. "Sue, you wanna anchor me in Chronicle just in case? Aether, wanna go grab my field?"
Eventually, Sue sends Aether a quick heads-up and Celo appears, hair slightly mussed but as sparkling clean as usual, with a big grin on his face.
"Yeah, I think I've got the hang of this shit," he says. "Sue, you wanna anchor me in Chronicle just in case? Aether, wanna go grab my field?"
subtly_artistic
"Can do. Let me get Glass for a second peek at the world without so much vomiting this time. Sue, can you keep me in link just in case?"
subtly_artistic
"I don't need you to go very far or leave my aura at all," soothes Aether. And out they go to the door, which Aether opens - discernible aura snugly withdrawn.
Callahan is just visible at the end of the hall, walking away. She doesn't seem to have a reaction to Aether's return.
Callahan makes a rude gesture in their direction without looking back, and then she turns the corner and she's off.
subtly_artistic
Aether blinks, and teleports to Celo's garden, and informs the link that she has done so.
Celo appears next to her and hugs her. The garden smells like his name, and it's vibrant and healthy and beautiful - apparently celosia comes in colours.
Sue freecasts to Chronicle. [Hey Glass, know where I can find the place Celo's supposed to put his garden?]
Sue freecasts to Chronicle. [Hey Glass, know where I can find the place Celo's supposed to put his garden?]
"I am, I'm gorgeous," says Celo, and Sue freecasts to the future location of the garden and shows it to Celo, who kisses Aether and—
Vanishes, garden and all. About eight feet of dirt is suddenly no longer under Aether.
Vanishes, garden and all. About eight feet of dirt is suddenly no longer under Aether.
subtly_artistic
Whoop! Now she's hovering.
She teleports back into Emily, and touches the building's mind.
Emily knows how to do that door thing! She can do it right now if her friend Bella wants her to. She is a smart building.
Aether shares this with everyone - Emily is so cute, Bella really likes her - Glass, will time in fact pause here if I go out again?
She teleports back into Emily, and touches the building's mind.
Emily knows how to do that door thing! She can do it right now if her friend Bella wants her to. She is a smart building.
Aether shares this with everyone - Emily is so cute, Bella really likes her - Glass, will time in fact pause here if I go out again?
thaumobabble
Yyyyyes. Or at least, if it doesn't, it will be for Milliways reasons and not for Materia reasons. Also THAT WOMAN IS TERRIFYING.
thaumobabble
This is a link; Glass can show them.
Some metacausal thing wants it to be fatal to have Callahan want you dead. This doesn't, in itself, give Callahan particularly exceptional powers - if she's good in a fight, it's in some fairly usual way modulo Materia, she's not a The Slayer or anything like that as far as Glass can see, not that this should make her less intimidating if she is in fact very good. But it would still be a very wise idea not to have her want you dead. Glass is still pretty firm on torching being absolute, which just means that it would be a bad idea to have Callahan want you dead in some completely novel and probably horrifying way. Also, things Glass sees have changed before, and she is not sure which thing would win between the absoluteness of torching and the insistence that it is a metacausally bad idea to have Callahan want you dead. They may both go on being true as long as no one torchable ever instigates a contest.
She's also blaring Extremely Special on another layer which Glass hasn't seen before; she'd need to see more of it to know what it does, but whatever it is is bright and scary and intense and - Materia-flavored, not in a nauseating way, just in a sense of hereness. If Callahan isn't a Materian god, Glass has a (purely academic) curiosity about what the hell does qualify.
Some metacausal thing wants it to be fatal to have Callahan want you dead. This doesn't, in itself, give Callahan particularly exceptional powers - if she's good in a fight, it's in some fairly usual way modulo Materia, she's not a The Slayer or anything like that as far as Glass can see, not that this should make her less intimidating if she is in fact very good. But it would still be a very wise idea not to have her want you dead. Glass is still pretty firm on torching being absolute, which just means that it would be a bad idea to have Callahan want you dead in some completely novel and probably horrifying way. Also, things Glass sees have changed before, and she is not sure which thing would win between the absoluteness of torching and the insistence that it is a metacausally bad idea to have Callahan want you dead. They may both go on being true as long as no one torchable ever instigates a contest.
She's also blaring Extremely Special on another layer which Glass hasn't seen before; she'd need to see more of it to know what it does, but whatever it is is bright and scary and intense and - Materia-flavored, not in a nauseating way, just in a sense of hereness. If Callahan isn't a Materian god, Glass has a (purely academic) curiosity about what the hell does qualify.
subtly_artistic
I wasn't really planning to bother her, and now I really plan not to bother her, says Aether.