"I didn't wind up interacting directly with Micaiah much," says Stella, after returning home from a certain visit. "Does he deviate from template significantly? He didn't have wings, so I imagine it was by less than Angela deviates from my template."
"But maybe we should name ourselves too," says Petaal.
"If we can all get together and talk about it sometime," says Kas.
"I tried it once to see and I can only force the door to places I've been before," says Stella. "But that still means I could get you and Alice and the Joker all together now, if that's enough for a quorum."
"It'd be a start," he says. "D'you want to step into our world for a bit so you can go there later?"
"Sure. If I step into your world I might as well also contact Amariah so we can meet each other and presumably I can dump some coins on her," says Stella.
"I want to touch you," she says suddenly.
"Isn't that - some kind of big deal that I don't fully understand? Amariah was very all-capsy about it in her entry. What does it do?"
"Or the best thing in the world with the right one," says Petaal.
"But for us, not for you. For you it's just..." He shrugs.
"Special," says Petaal. "You know it's something special. Something important for us. It feels like that."
Kas inhales audibly.
(It feels like mindreading - the deeper kind, the emotion-blob-poking kind. It isn't. She has no new information. But it feels like that.)
Kas is smiling.
Floof!
"Yeah, Amariah kinda said that too," says Kas.
"Does she know what mindreading feels like or is it that obvious a comparison?" Stella's still gentle with Petaal, after a startled flinch at the shift under her hand; she doesn't know much about how this works and is erring on the side of caution.
"It's that obvious," says Petaal, closing her eyes and making happy little hm-hm noises.
This wouldn't startle her overwhelmingly. But it would be an interesting piece of information about Amariah.