With some coaxing and locational data from Sue, Harley appears.

He hugs Sue immediately.

Hugs hugs hugs.

"Hey, good for you," Sue murmurs, kissing Harley's forehead. "—How old even are you? Am I the youngest Joker again?"

"Yeah. I took a four-year hit, I'm twenty now. Harley looks about my age, but it's kind of hard to tell."

"Also, I look about that age too and I'm actually closer to a hundred," says Celo. "I wonder if I can move just this part of me around... Harley, hit us with the fuzzy cave again? It looked cute."

Harley displays sense-of-place for the fuzzy cave.

"I'll go first," says Sue, "see if it's enough for me," and he flickers out and back. "Yep."

Celo thinks it over.

What Celo tries is something closer to Harley than Sue, and not quite the same as either.

He spends a while not quite getting it - about a minute - but he's patient, and doesn't let himself get discouraged, and then there it is and he's broadcasting sense-of-place from a cave full of round fluffy creatures.

They're so soft! he says. Awwwwwwwww. I wonder if I can ask Queen Whatserface to put my field near here. I'll bring it up later.

He pets a poof and sends back the sound it makes. Harley giggles softly.

Poofs are nice.

Celo gets his bearings from Sue and comes back.

"So, that's a start," he says.

Harley sends a jumble of thoughts to Sue. He takes a moment to disentangle it, and then nods. "Yeah. Now we know you can go places if you're getting place-data in real time. The weird thing is, I could never do what you did the first time - jump when I didn't have a clue where I was going. I tried once and I ended up floating in some kind of mysterious void outside Milliways."

Harley mumbles a questioning sort of mumble.

"Good question," says Sue. "Why not." He conjures himself an ansible pair, twists it apart, taps Jane to request that she whisk away a half.

And Sue... freecasts.

Yep. Mysterious void. He pops back into the tower.

"Guess it varies," he says with a shrug. "Or I just don't have the hang of it yet. Wanna try the mysterious void, Harley?"

Harley nods. He flickers out.

weird, he sends, in a dreamy mumbly sort of thought-voice. don't think I like it here.

And pop - he's back in the room with them.

Sue grins and hugs him.

Hug hug hugs.

"Aww," says Sue, snuggling Celo because he is there and snuggable. "Did I mention you guys are cute? I did. I'm mentioning it again."

"I guess now you just need - practice," says Sue. "To keep getting it on purpose. I know I've gotten way better at targeting since I started doing it practically all the time."

"And me," says Celo, "I need to see if my field will even - go. But I'm pretty sure it will."

Harley mumbles wordlessly and hugs Elsie some more, nodding.

Harley says - through Sue, because words are hard - that he will wake Zeus when he can talk and eat and move again, and he can freecast reliably without any safety net at all.

It might be a while.

But that is okay. He has time.

"Hi!" says Celo, waving.

"Hi," says Sue. "I don't think we've met. I'm Sue."