alone in the multiverse | Glowfic Constellation

bellfounding

Huh. Well, these people are already in prison. It's probably both less pleasant to be in and easier to escape than Ganymede's going to be once she's installed more than a handful of amenities; she might sift through it later, but it's not her immediate priority.

Anyone else?

Only people who are already in this prison. But not everyone who is in this prison.

bellfounding

All right then.

Bella goes back to floating above the prisoners on Ganymede, in case someone wants to address her, and meanwhile watches the news on a half-second delay via pastwatching.

No one wants to address her.

The news seems to be... somewhat confused... about how to report on what just happened in Gotham. They do have several different angles on the nuclear device turning into a rabbit.

bellfounding

Heh heh heh.

Bella decides to leave Ganymede's new residents alone for the day and she heads for Tethys to continue newswatching more comfortably. She's kind of surprised the Batlady hasn't tried to brainphone her yet.

The news also reports that Gotham's mayor was killed in the attack, along with several more people who were nearby when the bomb that killed him went off.

bellfounding

That's really a pity, but Jane is offline, so Bella can't fix it, not in any way worth doing.

The Batlady does not try to brainphone her about it.

bellfounding

Well then.

Bella proceeds with her usual activities, evades when miscellaneous world leaders ask if she had anything to do with the thing in Gotham, and checks on Ganymede the next day.

Ganymede is extremely orderly. Bane stands guard by the food replicator, and ceremoniously allows any who approach to operate it and take their food away in peace. They have already begun a collection of nourishing non-perishables close by, and everyone who gets food from the replicator to eat right away also contributes to the stash.

bellfounding

Bella snickers. She hangs out for fifteen minutes or until addressed.

Everyone ignores her.

bellfounding

Off she goes, then. She figures she'll let them go a week before she installs, say, houses and flora without being so much as shouted at for them.

It should be fairly clear by now that none of Bane's people are going to say a word to her, shouted or otherwise.

bellfounding

She's not sure whether this is for fear of peer reaction of some kind, so all the houses - there are enough for everybody and then some, if terribly samey ones, each with their own plumbing and replicators, arranged in a circle - can be locked from the inside against any non-teleportative intrusion, and include little fact sheets (in the reader's native language, whatever that may be) to this effect. They are invited to summon her by folding up their fact sheets, along existing folds; if someone secretly wants to talk to her they have every chance, now.

No one secretly wants to talk to her.

bellfounding

That's okay too.

She spends most of her time curing diseases and convincing various prime ministers of this and that that she's here to help, but periodically she drops in on Ganymede and adds amenities - ground rules, a library (no Internet, not till Jane's back). On a whim she decides to give them a swimming pool. It's not like unfriendly possibly-cultists are liable to be the only people she's ever going to need to put out of the way.