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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?]
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Lots of people, and they appear to be panicking.
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That is interesting. Bella supervises the panic to see what the shape of this group may be.
Headless. Headless is the shape of the group.
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Do any of them appear to be communicating with anyone who's not in this sewer?
No.
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That's good, then, it should be safe to supervise a little longer and figure out who these people are, what they were trying to accomplish, etcetera.
They are all very concerned about the disappearance of someone called Bane. No one can seem to agree on anything except that it is very bad that Bane is gone and they're not sure what to do now.
While she is watching them, another four people arrive with the corpse of the rabbit.
While she is watching them, another four people arrive with the corpse of the rabbit.
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There's a lot of people here.
Bella decides to unstealth.
"There was no call to kill that bunny," she says. "All it did was fail to be a nuke anymore."
Bella decides to unstealth.
"There was no call to kill that bunny," she says. "All it did was fail to be a nuke anymore."
There is a general uproar.
Someone shoots at her. They miss.
Someone shoots at her. They miss.
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The guns in this room don't work anymore. Nothing much will happen if they shoot her - Shell Bell's nukeproof wish has percolated through the peal as a standard - but it might ricochet and hurt somebody she doesn't want hurt.
"Me, you may have slightly more reason to be upset with, but that's not going to help."
"Me, you may have slightly more reason to be upset with, but that's not going to help."
The occupants of the sewer tunnels mob her en masse.
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She sighs and teleports to behind the mob.
"I just want someone to talk to me," she says from over there.
"I just want someone to talk to me," she says from over there.
No one is interested in talking to her.
Many people are interested in doing her physical harm.
Many people are interested in doing her physical harm.
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She's not interested in staying put for it.
Eventually she picks them all up and puts them on Ganymede.
She hovers about twenty feet above the ground. And decides to hang out and wait for someone to decide to say something to her.
Eventually she picks them all up and puts them on Ganymede.
She hovers about twenty feet above the ground. And decides to hang out and wait for someone to decide to say something to her.
The people from the sewer all congregate around the first two prisoners she collected.
No one talks to Bella. At a word from Bane, no one even looks at Bella.
No one talks to Bella. At a word from Bane, no one even looks at Bella.
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Bella sighs, wishes them a food replicator with instructions printed in English on the side and some magic plumbing, and goes to see if anyone else may need fetching.
One person, in the sewer tunnels, carrying the bunny's top hat.
He drops the hat and runs.
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She teleports in front of him. "You guys are really not friendly, are you."
He runs the other way.
Next are some people at the bottom of a deep dark hole.
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What a curious sort of hole this is. Bella decides to find out more about it before she removes anyone from it.
It appears to be a prison, in a desert, full of men speaking a language that is not English.
On casual inspection it almost looks like there is a handy way to climb out of the prison at any time, up the curved rock walls with the aid of a safety rope. This proves not to be the case. Or at least, there is an entire ritual centred around trying and failing to do it.
On casual inspection it almost looks like there is a handy way to climb out of the prison at any time, up the curved rock walls with the aid of a safety rope. This proves not to be the case. Or at least, there is an entire ritual centred around trying and failing to do it.