cross_and_bow
Juliet lands at the Jane-installation point without incident.
[I'm back,] she announces to Sherlock, Tony, and Jarvis all at once.
[I'm back,] she announces to Sherlock, Tony, and Jarvis all at once.
neverbeatme
"...Nice," says James.
Virginia, a red-haired girl who might be a little older than James, looks around with interest.
Virginia, a red-haired girl who might be a little older than James, looks around with interest.
cross_and_bow
"Pleased to meet you, Virginia," says Bella. "I'm Bella, but if there are a bunch of people who look like me around and that threatens to get confusing, I go by Juliet in those contexts. Also, you probably should be aware that Jane, my multiversal internet-eating faster-than-light computer friend, can see and hear you out of one of the sapphires on my necklace unless I turn it off. Also, one of my friends is a ghost, and she can turn invisible and may or may not be around here somewhere."
[Giles, did you hear the invitation? Did you have to clean your glasses 517 times to get over "party on Mars in Eos"?]
[Giles, did you hear the invitation? Did you have to clean your glasses 517 times to get over "party on Mars in Eos"?]
cross_and_bow
[Awesome. Come by the brick place, our ride has eyes and ears there.]
[Let's get you on the brainphone network, Virginia! Voilà.]
[Let's get you on the brainphone network, Virginia! Voilà.]
cross_and_bow
[My new friend Jane. She is an internet-eating faster-than-light multiversal network. Also she now helps me and the other Bells run the afterlife and she does interdimensional teleportation. And she can see and hear you from the installation in this house, and from a gem on my new necklace unless I turn it off, and in theory from anything with cameras that's hooked up to the Internet but she doesn't pay attention to that sort of thing.]
"So Virginia, tell me about yourself," Bella invites.
"So Virginia, tell me about yourself," Bella invites.
neverbeatme
"Does that necessarily make me interesting?" inquires Virginia. "Useful and interesting aren't perfectly correlated."
cross_and_bow
"They are," says Juliet, "hardly uncorrelated. But you could describe your usefulness instead of your interestingness if you rather."
neverbeatme
"Is there a reason I need to be describing one or the other?" she inquires. James laughs.
cross_and_bow
"Because I haven't decided to hire you yet and Jane hasn't informed us that the party's underway yet either."
neverbeatme
"Tooting my own horn is not among my hobbies," says Virginia.
"Yeah, she lets me toot it for her," says James.
"Yeah, she lets me toot it for her," says James.
cross_and_bow
"Ooh." [Hey, Giles, the party's started. Just come in and go to the server room in the basement - Jarvis can direct you if you need him to - and tell Jane you're ready to go.] "Shall we?"
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