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It has been a couple of months now since the wedding, since the revelation about Jovah. Isabella has been busy. She is not as overt as some of her counterparts. It is not now impossible on Samaria to commit crimes of violence, for example - although anyone who gets going with one will tend to feel a sensation of being watched, and this is enough to noticeably ding reports of such misbehavior.
She's been noticed.
Linus has been calling all of the changes, collectively - because once one or two got overt attention the others were plain as day - "Jovah's hand moving among us".
Isabella is all right with the ship getting credit for her handiwork. It will be more accepted that way. No one riots over the god choosing to peer closely at them if they raise their hands to strike; no one theorizes about the appropriateness of meddling in the natural processes of things like childbirth when they believe Jovah is the active party.
Meanwhile she shadows Delilah. She makes routine visits to Monteverde to talk with Linus about this or that. (She can bring Micaiah, now that they're married.)
She gets steadily more pregnant. The heaviness is no burden to an angel, but it is somewhat physically awkward to be so bulky. She works around it. She's going to have a baby, and she just glows with it.
And, one day, for the first time since before the wedding, she finds Milliways in her and Micaiah's guest room in Monteverde.
"Oh, here it is, I was wondering when it would come by again," Isabella says.
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jovahs_heiress
she_sells_seashells
"One person at a time," confirms Shell Bell. "I don't know if they get sensory feedback from it so they could tell if you were there even invisible."
jovahs_heiress
"...Sherlock, would you mind accompanying me, so that one of us will be able to bail us out no matter what?"
sicaria
"If I accompany you, it should not be necessary to get close enough to be noticed at all."
sicaria
"I can inspect objects in the same world from an arbitrary distance away. You could copy the power, but you've never seen Nathaniel with it."
jovahs_heiress
"All right. And Shell Bell, you can hold the door - you'll be okay?"
sicaria
So does Sherlock.
She shifts a locus of her perception power directly to Voice.
After a moment spent studying their physical structure, she nods.
She shifts a locus of her perception power directly to Voice.
After a moment spent studying their physical structure, she nods.
jovahs_heiress
Angela spends a moment studying the apartment the door opens into - she'd like to have a shot at forcing the door in case she ever needs it - and then she turns around. "Now what do I do with Nathaniel, though?" she murmurs. "Templates are usually well-matched instance to instance - but Nathaniel's a child, he hasn't hurt anyone -"
arenaria
"It could just be Downside. Downside can change people," murmurs Shell Bell, letting the door close.
jovahs_heiress
"I suppose as long as Nathaniel's seen Milliways and you, now, I can explain to him - in age-appropriate terms - what happened. Warn him."
jovahs_heiress
"Not really, but it seems worse not to tell him. At least in general terms."
jovahs_heiress
"For the same reason I'm planning to ask Juliet just what happened to her in her vaguely described misadventure, when I meet her. It's important to know the pitfalls. Nathaniel's happen to be particularly dire."