[He wanted to know what this friend of yours thinks of the fact that I've slept with you. I told him she's fine with it.]
[Reminds me of watching Sherlocks have entire conversations with their posture,] snorts Amariah.
"Anything you two want to share with the class?" Rayne says dryly.
[Case in point,] laughs Ripper.
"Do I want to know what you're thinking right now?" says Ripper. Rayne just laughs.
Amariah snorts. [Do you think your alt would care if I looked in on him to see if he's almost here as reported?]
"Along for the ride. I can leave if I'll only be in the way."
"Wasn't planning to supervise that part. Also, wasn't dead."
"Me? I would never," says Rayne, mock-offended. Ripper laughs and pets his lapful of purring cat.
Someone opens the front door and walks in.
And just sort of stands there, utterly stunned.
"Hello," says Amariah. Her aura's still floating around her, magicmagicwitchwitchmagicmagic.
"Ripper, Hec, this is... Ripper," says Rayne. "And Isabella Amariah, who apparently isn't here to watch you two have sex, can't imagine why, wild horses couldn't get me to pass that up."
"He doesn't—" the local Ripper says distantly.
"Kit doesn't mind, so why should you?" shrugs Rayne. "C'mon in, shut the door, say hello, steal his tea."
The local Ripper manages to shut the door.
"People from other worlds don't, usually," says Amariah. Even within the sheaf Alethia is unusual; she's read sensationalist media screaming about it from fifty years ago.
He comes forward hesitantly, sits on the floor in front of his alt, and joins him in petting her.
Rayne bites his lip. It's the first time he's shown a visible reaction to Ripper touching his daemon.
"I have no idea what's going on," the local Ripper murmurs. His kingfisher leaves his shoulder and perches on a nearby clock, giving it an extra set of talon-marks on top of the many it already has.
And she gives a little wave and vanishes, Path with her.
Amariah finds Kas. She flops on him. "There's a local alt of Pattern's boyfriend who's a younger and more interesting Rupert," she reports.