View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
A few months after the business with the chalice, Annie (with a gold engagement stud in one earlobe, now receiving mail at Aldaras's apartment, and thoroughly comfortable with Being Necklaced, to the point where she's helping mold the thing towards more exacting standards for real-world-practical as well as theoretical compatibility) is in bed with some unidentified sort of head cold or flu. Aldaras doesn't have it so far, so she is snuggled under the covers while he makes her spicy soup to help clear her sinuses and because she's having a little trouble with non-liquids. He's worried, she's mostly just groggy. Zzzz.
+ Show First Post
darkest_evening
And: portal.
"You or Annie won't be able to pass through it until Revelation gives you fancy microchips. It's a safety concern. Spring? To Pantheon?"
"You or Annie won't be able to pass through it until Revelation gives you fancy microchips. It's a safety concern. Spring? To Pantheon?"
namesthesky
Spring gets up - a careful observer may notice that she is doing this more with her flying necklace than with her legs - and goes to the portal and through.
darkest_evening
"We'll send someone back through the portal shortly. I just became rather busy."
And then he goes to Pantheon, too.
And then he goes to Pantheon, too.
dark_light
Ice sticks her head through the portal. "Hey, is she contagious or anything?"
dark_light
"Okay." Ice retreats back to the Belfry. "Let's go put you in your house and get you some paper, how about."
darkest_evening
"Revelation, I think they need microchips. Probably also explanations."
darkest_evening
"She's engaged to an Adarin - he looks different, but I asked him about the relevant traits and he apparently fit them. But I didn't exactly have much time for conversation."
from_scratch
"Right. Here goes."
Through steps Revelation.
"Hello, I'm another Bell - most of us look like you, you've seen an unrepresentative sample," he tells Annie. "Please put the necklace away, it is making me extremely nervous."
Through steps Revelation.
"Hello, I'm another Bell - most of us look like you, you've seen an unrepresentative sample," he tells Annie. "Please put the necklace away, it is making me extremely nervous."
keep_busy
"I wouldn't - okay," says Annie, and she unclasps it and puts it in its box. "There. I'm really sorry. I was super sick."
from_scratch
"We'll - figure something out. It's not the end of the world. At least it's Prime she's stuck on and not, like, one of the deities or Katydid's cat."
touchedinthehead
"One of the deities? Katydid's cat? That could. That could happen?"
from_scratch
"Well, I don't know how your scary necklace works, but there exist deities - Spring is an acolyte of one of them, is how she does the healing - and Katydid's cat is her familiar and a person and stuff."
touchedinthehead
"... Okay. That. Makes sense. Is there a brochure on all of the alts?"
from_scratch
"Yeah, we took care of that after last time. What format do you want it in?"
from_scratch
"If you were higher tech you might want a computer version. Here." Revelation hands over a glossy little hardcover.
darkest_evening
Meanwhile:
Prime doesn't follow Spring inside her house, but he does wait outside it. Silently. Thinking.
So, obviously, the multiverse is conspiring against them. That's - pretty clear, now. Coincidences, fine, but at this point, it's far more than coincidence. First, new universe gets a creepy love necklace and then the person who needs to wear it for genuinely logical reasons just so happens to fall sick just in time for he and Spring to show up to cure her. Ha. Ha ha ha. Yeah, no, that's not a coincidence, that is conspiracy.
Who has a vested interest in Bells and Adarins shacking up? He - doesn't have an answer to that question. His first answer is 'blame it on the Fae, they're huge assholes,' but on reflection, this doesn't seem their style. They like watching large-scale mayhem. Dramatic betrayals and large scale wars and dynasties falling. An - absurdly convoluted, multidimensional love story? With - lots of harrowing experiences and lots of magic? That's - no, why would they care? Who would even want that?
Is he some kind of chess piece in some insane cosmic love game? Is Spring? That's - completely terrible, actually. Because things were shaping up to be, 'pair up with your partner or the universe curb-stomps you into doing it.' And then possibly does horrible things to you anyway.
How great.
Well. There's no use taking it out on Spring. Or himself, even. He just - needs to figure out what to do. Because that is obviously a simple solution. Just. Figure out what to do when a necklace forces someone you're friends with to fall madly, irrevocably in love with you. Against her will. That's not a moral issue at all.
Why yes, Prime is just as sarcastic in his own head as he is out loud, thank you for noticing.
Prime doesn't follow Spring inside her house, but he does wait outside it. Silently. Thinking.
So, obviously, the multiverse is conspiring against them. That's - pretty clear, now. Coincidences, fine, but at this point, it's far more than coincidence. First, new universe gets a creepy love necklace and then the person who needs to wear it for genuinely logical reasons just so happens to fall sick just in time for he and Spring to show up to cure her. Ha. Ha ha ha. Yeah, no, that's not a coincidence, that is conspiracy.
Who has a vested interest in Bells and Adarins shacking up? He - doesn't have an answer to that question. His first answer is 'blame it on the Fae, they're huge assholes,' but on reflection, this doesn't seem their style. They like watching large-scale mayhem. Dramatic betrayals and large scale wars and dynasties falling. An - absurdly convoluted, multidimensional love story? With - lots of harrowing experiences and lots of magic? That's - no, why would they care? Who would even want that?
Is he some kind of chess piece in some insane cosmic love game? Is Spring? That's - completely terrible, actually. Because things were shaping up to be, 'pair up with your partner or the universe curb-stomps you into doing it.' And then possibly does horrible things to you anyway.
How great.
Well. There's no use taking it out on Spring. Or himself, even. He just - needs to figure out what to do. Because that is obviously a simple solution. Just. Figure out what to do when a necklace forces someone you're friends with to fall madly, irrevocably in love with you. Against her will. That's not a moral issue at all.
Why yes, Prime is just as sarcastic in his own head as he is out loud, thank you for noticing.