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Bella's mid-conversation with Jane when she cuts out.
[Jane?]
Jane... pretty much fails to exist.
[Jane.]
Nothing.
Bella goes to the Janepoint, and there's a message for her on the screen, something about lost ansible connection.
Well, shit.
[Queenie, Ghosty, Slipstick?]
bellfounding
The anxious fellow darts an anxious glance at the other man.
"I... am here to... explain," he says haltingly.
"I... am here to... explain," he says haltingly.
bellfounding
"Great," says Bella. "I am in search of an explanation. Please, showcase your talents."
bellfounding
"I already have an explanation for it being a rabbit. I'm looking for an explanation of why it was, previously, more threatening than a rabbit."
"He - he forced me to make it that way," the anxious fellow mutters. "Into a nuclear explosive device that only I could disarm."
The top hat falls off the rabbit's head. The rabbit sniffs it, nibbles it, then abandons it entirely.
The top hat falls off the rabbit's head. The rabbit sniffs it, nibbles it, then abandons it entirely.
bellfounding
"Can do."
She teleports him home, presuming there's a unique location corresponding to "home", and then teleports back to the Interesting Voice Guy.
"Forcing people to arm nukes people isn't very nice," she says pleasantly.
She teleports him home, presuming there's a unique location corresponding to "home", and then teleports back to the Interesting Voice Guy.
"Forcing people to arm nukes people isn't very nice," she says pleasantly.
bellfounding
"Yeah, I'm getting that. If we hang out here till the cops show up, do you suppose they're going to be able to keep you in prison effectively?"
bellfounding
"I'm liable to take that as a no; do you want to find out what happens when I conclude that the answer to that question is no?"
He spreads his hands.
"I am but a man," he says. "The revolution does not need me."
(He only partly believes these things.)
"I am but a man," he says. "The revolution does not need me."
(He only partly believes these things.)
bellfounding
"Okay, so you maybe have friends, there goes my afternoon, huh?" [Queenie, you want I should set this guy up somewhere other than the existing terraformed asteroid?]
bellfounding
[Okay, I'll pick another spot, not like we're low on asteroids.]
"Do you have anything to say that might convince me not to put you in a space prison colony?" inquires Bella.
"Do you have anything to say that might convince me not to put you in a space prison colony?" inquires Bella.
bellfounding
"All right, don't say I didn't warn you," says Bella. She teleports him temporarily to an empty residential section of Saturn and then teleports to a good-sized Jovian moon (no point putting her prisoners right on top of her citizenry) and installs basic terraforming before going to fetch him. She decides to wait for a reaction before installing anything beyond atmosphere and livable temperature to the place.
bellfounding
"Mm-hm. Any preferences on the accommodations beyond 'not instantly fatal'? I'm not interested in doing you harm, I just can't have people nuking stuff."
bellfounding
"Well, welcome to your not instantly fatal new home, I'm going to go round up some more revolutionaries, you'll have company," Bella shrugs. And she stealths and teleports to whoever may meet the description of this guy's second-in-command.