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After Glass's party is over with, Amariah and Kas go home.
Amariah fetches down their alethiometers.
"It's about time I took care of Alethia's afterlife, whatever it may be," she says quietly. "What can the alethiometer tell you about what I'll find?"
dark_light
yovahs-kisses
Micaiah does not think he wants a daemon of his own, but he will hold his angel's if she needs him to.
bellfounding
After Jane tells her that some Jokers are going on the expedition for reasons of their own, Pattern notifies Queenie and Ghosty.
gunpowdergelatine
[Do we have any idea how long this is gonna take?] says Queenie. ['Cause if I'm losing my snugglebuddy for a week, I want another one.]
bellfounding
[No clue. It's an unfamiliar afterlife, the alethiometer was cagey as hell. I have a decent coin stash, if you need to go visiting someplace.]
lifes_sake
The final tally is:
Amariah, definitely going. Kas, also definitely going.
Cam, going if his experiment with Grace works out.
Shell Bell, going. Pearl, hanging around to hold her duck-thing. (It turns out that this sort of duck is called a smew.)
Alice, going, recreationally; Stella, not going but hanging around for his daemon.
Ghosty, going recreationally.
Sue, going to link everyone but not intending to separate from Ivy.
Aianon and Ansharil, showing up just to see what will happen, and Isibel along with an anti-raccoon wish in place for moral support.
Elspeth, Glass, Golden, and Angela as backup; Juliet as emergency backup. Elspeth is hanging out in Alethia as the most likely necessary backup and because she was already there. Jellybean has gone home.
Amariah, definitely going. Kas, also definitely going.
Cam, going if his experiment with Grace works out.
Shell Bell, going. Pearl, hanging around to hold her duck-thing. (It turns out that this sort of duck is called a smew.)
Alice, going, recreationally; Stella, not going but hanging around for his daemon.
Ghosty, going recreationally.
Sue, going to link everyone but not intending to separate from Ivy.
Aianon and Ansharil, showing up just to see what will happen, and Isibel along with an anti-raccoon wish in place for moral support.
Elspeth, Glass, Golden, and Angela as backup; Juliet as emergency backup. Elspeth is hanging out in Alethia as the most likely necessary backup and because she was already there. Jellybean has gone home.
lifes_sake
Cam returns from depositing Grace in a safe place some hundred yards away from the clearing around Amariah's house. He assesses the situation and asks the alethiometer, "Why don't the three Jokers who just arrived have daemons?"
truthwright
"It is not in their nature," says the alethiometer.
"Let me," says Kas. He asks about the three of them separately.
"Okay, so Alice's power is apparently stopping him from getting a daemon. Aianon and Ansharil aren't the right species, and Ghosty's just... not. I think it's kind of confused about Ghosty," he says. "I mean, the world is confused about Ghosty, so the alethiometer is too. And the world being confused about Ghosty is why she's not getting a daemon."
"Let me," says Kas. He asks about the three of them separately.
"Okay, so Alice's power is apparently stopping him from getting a daemon. Aianon and Ansharil aren't the right species, and Ghosty's just... not. I think it's kind of confused about Ghosty," he says. "I mean, the world is confused about Ghosty, so the alethiometer is too. And the world being confused about Ghosty is why she's not getting a daemon."
lifes_sake
"Okay then," says Cam. "I wonder if they can comfortably enter the afterlife." He asks the alethiometer.
truthwright
Of Alice, the alethiometer says, "He cannot enter."
Of Ghosty, the alethiometer says, "There is no precedent."
Of Aianon and Ansharil, the alethiometer says, "If one goes, the other must stay."
Of Ghosty, the alethiometer says, "There is no precedent."
Of Aianon and Ansharil, the alethiometer says, "If one goes, the other must stay."
lifes_sake
"Okay, you guys get the exciting opportunity to have one of you be a daemon, I guess, and Sarion can hang out with that one and hug him," says Cam. "My turn."
He makes a conditional wish.
There is a half-instant of discomfort, so quick as to be almost more vividly imagined than felt, and then from where he left Grace comes a hawk. She lands on his shoulder and starts fussing with his hair.
He makes a conditional wish.
There is a half-instant of discomfort, so quick as to be almost more vividly imagined than felt, and then from where he left Grace comes a hawk. She lands on his shoulder and starts fussing with his hair.
