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There's fighting on Eros.
Aegis knows a little about Earthside politics, but not all that much: what matters is that several factions want to capture ("rescue") Aegis and Sue. (Or, as they are collectively being called on the nets with no consensus about which of them is which: "War and Peace".) The rest of the jeesh are in trouble too.
Aegis and Sue have been locked in their room for their own protection, and Sue has received conflicting orders about which contingent of soldiers he should be psychically helping.
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autokinetic
autokinetic
The desk is crippled - it has no connectivity at all; any data intended to leave it will have to do so through a wired connection - but it's got some familiar programs on it. Military sims. He's not exactly being instructed to play with them, but there's nothing else to do.
Uh-huh. He shuts it off again. Then he tries the door.
Do you know anything about where I am? he asks Jane. For that matter, he can probably find out where Aegis is in relation to him, if she's close by; her mind is very distinctive.
Do you know anything about where I am? he asks Jane. For that matter, he can probably find out where Aegis is in relation to him, if she's close by; her mind is very distinctive.
mind_game
No. I lost visual track of you after you were taken off Eros. The people who grabbed you were enough of a mix that I can't confidently guess their affiliations but it's most likely based on background information to be Warsaw Pact. I think they've been in a communications blackout or they're working on a closed computer system.
But if you can tell I wasn't here, how can you know without knowing where here is?
mind_game
You weren't anywhere. You're like a beacon to me, you and Aegis, I could find you in another galaxy if you went to one, but I couldn't find you at all.
Hmm.
He tries linking Aegis.
He tries linking Aegis.
autokinetic
Nothing doing.
This is the sort of result he could expect if she were really, really mad at him.
Or if something else has happened to her.
This is the sort of result he could expect if she were really, really mad at him.
Or if something else has happened to her.
...Aegis hasn't gone anywhere, right? Or you would've gone too. Can you tell anything about her? Is she okay?
mind_game
She's still in the universe, Jane reports. I don't know if I'd go if she did - at least the way you did - I'm not just her, I only happen to live in her body, I'm her roommate. I can't talk to her directly without you relaying. I lost visual on her at the same time as you.
He thinks.
Then he tries looking for Aegis again, and failing that, looking for any minds in range.
Then he tries looking for Aegis again, and failing that, looking for any minds in range.
autokinetic
Aegis is no more accessible than before.
There are some minds around, though. They're not receptive to the possibility of linking, but they exist.
There are some minds around, though. They're not receptive to the possibility of linking, but they exist.
He is not trying to link them. He just wants to know where they all are.
He pushes his range. Ivy helps. The more he sees, the more he'll know about who's got him.
He pushes his range. Ivy helps. The more he sees, the more he'll know about who's got him.
autokinetic
There are minds for about two hundred yards around, sparse clusters of them, and then nothing for quite a long way beyond that.
And no one in that whole two-hundred-yard sphere is Aegis. He checks. Twice.
Well.
He knows he can tuck Ivy away in his mind, and she comes out again as good as new. And now he knows he can send his mind, or something like it, to Milliways, and it's just like being there himself. So in a sense he can untuck himself from out of his mind.
What happens if he tucks himself into his mind, and moves the whole thing to Milliways on purpose? Ivy didn't use to be able to get in and out while he was awake either, and now she can.
For a long moment, he stands there with his eyes closed, not moving. Nothing interesting happens at all.
And then, with a faint, faint golden sparkle, he vanishes.
It's instantly possible to tell he's in Milliways; the whole mental landscape has changed. He opens his eyes anyway, and then doesn't bother to close them again when he puts himself back where he was.
Well.
He knows he can tuck Ivy away in his mind, and she comes out again as good as new. And now he knows he can send his mind, or something like it, to Milliways, and it's just like being there himself. So in a sense he can untuck himself from out of his mind.
What happens if he tucks himself into his mind, and moves the whole thing to Milliways on purpose? Ivy didn't use to be able to get in and out while he was awake either, and now she can.
For a long moment, he stands there with his eyes closed, not moving. Nothing interesting happens at all.
And then, with a faint, faint golden sparkle, he vanishes.
It's instantly possible to tell he's in Milliways; the whole mental landscape has changed. He opens his eyes anyway, and then doesn't bother to close them again when he puts himself back where he was.
I know! This time I did it on purpose, he says brightly.
I don't know, I just—tucked myself away in myself and went. I'm going to try again.
He does. And this time he can send himself to the inside of Milliways, and then to the outside, and then two hundred feet up in the air, and then before he starts properly falling he can be back in his cell.
Before he really thinks about what he's doing, he puts his hands against the door and sends himself forward, just far enough to end up on the other side of it.
He does. And this time he can send himself to the inside of Milliways, and then to the outside, and then two hundred feet up in the air, and then before he starts properly falling he can be back in his cell.
Before he really thinks about what he's doing, he puts his hands against the door and sends himself forward, just far enough to end up on the other side of it.
autokinetic
The hallway is institutional: linoleum, fluorescent light. Jackbooted guard over there who is very surprised to see Sue and goes for a stun gun on his belt.
Sue shifts himself much closer and punches the guard in the throat.
mind_game
I have a big mind, Jane goes on conversationally. I bet it could fit a person. Especially you or Aegis.
autokinetic
The guard coughs but doesn't go down, and he re-aims his stun gun.
Sue punches him in the throat again, much harder.