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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
He drops a couple of communicators in their cell and starts examining the rest of the building more closely. Now that he's pretty familiar with the place, he can bounce around it without sighting on his destination exactly.
Hmm. Maybe he can go somewhere else he's familiar with.
How about his old room at Tactical?
Hmm. Maybe he can go somewhere else he's familiar with.
How about his old room at Tactical?
autokinetic
He can make half that trip.
And then he can't make the other half.
This is a strange unplace. There's no light, but there's nothing to see. There's no air, but no time is passing, and you can live without air for less than a moment; it doesn't even hurt. There's nothing -
There's minds.
And then he can't make the other half.
This is a strange unplace. There's no light, but there's nothing to see. There's no air, but no time is passing, and you can live without air for less than a moment; it doesn't even hurt. There's nothing -
There's minds.
Sue puts himself where the minds are. They don't have a direction or a distance, exactly, but the whole configuration has a familiar shape.
mind_game
You're gone again, but this time I can still talk to you, it seems like, observes Jane.
Maybe because we were linked when I went, he says, flicking over to the Aegis-alike midsentence. As he does, he notices that it's different when he teleports in Milliways: between places in his world, there's a flicker of that no-space outside that he didn't notice until he teleported just now without it.
she_sells_seashells
"Oh!" exclaims the Aegis-alike. "Hello -" She peers at him. "Sue? I'm Shell Bell."
"That's me," he says. "Still kidnapped, I forget if I put that in the book. But I learned how to come here not-in-my-sleep, so it's not as bad as it could be. Hey, do you have a nice warm coat I could borrow? Or if you're one of the magic ones, could you make me coldproof?"
Do what, move people around? How?
Do what, move people around? How?
mind_game
By tucking them away into my mind, same way you're tucking yourself. I have lots of mind, I bet I could hold somebody besides me.
she_sells_seashells
"...You aren't asleep? But you just -" Shell Bell waves a hand. "Appeared. You didn't come through the door. I'm one of the magic ones; yours is the only one left we've gotten in any form of contact with who isn't."
He teleports three feet to the left, then back.
Well, who do you want to teleport, and to where?
Well, who do you want to teleport, and to where?
she_sells_seashells
"Oh! Wow! If you haven't met a magic one yet how are you doing that?"
Good plan, he says immediately. Try it!
"It's the same way as I do it when I'm sleeping," he explains. "I think. It feels like—well, if you're magic I guess I can't show you. It's almost like linking except linking a place instead of a person, and it's almost like,"
"coming out of his head," says Ivy from his shoulder as a fennec fox, "except it's different because his head's still there when I do that, and when he does it he moves all of him."
"It's the same way as I do it when I'm sleeping," he explains. "I think. It feels like—well, if you're magic I guess I can't show you. It's almost like linking except linking a place instead of a person, and it's almost like,"
"coming out of his head," says Ivy from his shoulder as a fennec fox, "except it's different because his head's still there when I do that, and when he does it he moves all of him."
she_sells_seashells
"...I'm not natively magic like some of them," Shell Bell says, "I don't know if my defensive wish will block you or not. Is that - Ivy? Amariah wrote about her but Juliet didn't see any sign of her when you visited Sunshine later."
"That's me," says Ivy. "I'm sneaky and hideable!"
She vanishes in a flicker of golden light. Sue giggles.
I know it is, he says to Jane. It must be, to move somebody who's not you, when you've never done anything like it before.
She vanishes in a flicker of golden light. Sue giggles.
I know it is, he says to Jane. It must be, to move somebody who's not you, when you've never done anything like it before.
she_sells_seashells
"Wow. Okay. I guess that probably happened because you got her when you were dreaming?"
"Guess so," he shrugs. "Anyway, can you coldproof me?"
autokinetic
Here's Aegis, landing pretty much right on top of Sue and slumping to the floor in drug-addled sleep.