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Belle is with Luc, going over the differences between the four enchanting power sources (a pentagon could give him skill, but would not allow her to evaluate his trustworthiness and responsibility en route, nor would it do him any favors if he wants to teach students of his own one day), when the Janepoint begins to make worrying sounds.
Beast is likely nearer the beeping than Belle is. Mon cœur, do you know what is making that noise? she asks.
beheld_beauty
deslandes
No, ma belle.
He goes and looks.
It's Jane, he concludes. She is - not here. There is a message.
He goes and looks.
It's Jane, he concludes. She is - not here. There is a message.
beheld_beauty
Belle sits up abruptly.
"Go on reading," she says to Luc, and she strides through the castle towards the Janepoint to see for herself.
"Go on reading," she says to Luc, and she strides through the castle towards the Janepoint to see for herself.
beheld_beauty
Belle reads.
She squeezes his hand.
"I shouldn't have waited to fetch Renée," she murmurs.
She squeezes his hand.
"I shouldn't have waited to fetch Renée," she murmurs.
beheld_beauty
Belle holds him. "I have occasionally wondered if Bells are too hasty. It seems this is not the case in all times and places."
beheld_beauty
Fluff.
"Quite apart from that I worry for Jane herself. I had thought that the advantage of the ansible was indelible connection - that this was why it persisted regardless of what worlds each end was in."
"Quite apart from that I worry for Jane herself. I had thought that the advantage of the ansible was indelible connection - that this was why it persisted regardless of what worlds each end was in."
beheld_beauty
"Jane told me once that even when the physical piece of an ansible is destroyed, her connection is still there, it just can't be used for anything. If the other ends of these ansibles were ruined -" She touches her handflower, and the ansible rack of the Janepoint. "Then I would expect it to last for a moment or two, while Aegis or Sue went and replaced the pieces."
beheld_beauty
"At least I never spoke to Charlie about the possibility of bringing Renée back to life, and he will not be disappointed that I can no longer do so."
beheld_beauty
Hugs.
"I suppose there is work aplenty to be done in Rêverie alone," she says. "And however short our time with the others was, we've come away with more tools."
(Neither she nor Beast has ever found a conventional Milliways door. The possibility is not so salient.)
"I suppose there is work aplenty to be done in Rêverie alone," she says. "And however short our time with the others was, we've come away with more tools."
(Neither she nor Beast has ever found a conventional Milliways door. The possibility is not so salient.)
beheld_beauty
"Yes. But goodness only knows how long that might take."
It takes a long time.
It takes long enough that one idle afternoon, after coming home from enchanting an orphanage that was having trouble making ends meet and will now never lack for the ability to feed resident mouths, Belle asks her husband:
"Do you want to have a baby?"
It takes a long time.
It takes long enough that one idle afternoon, after coming home from enchanting an orphanage that was having trouble making ends meet and will now never lack for the ability to feed resident mouths, Belle asks her husband:
"Do you want to have a baby?"
