When the Aurum Janepoint pops up with the error message "error 99: bottles of beer on the wall" and will not respond to any sort of prodding or magic, Bella makes a general announcement to the majority of adults on the brainphone network.
[Jane has encountered a new and different form of error, and we are stuck here until someone finds a door or until further notice. Elspeth, please begin looking for doors.]
[Will do,] Elspeth replies into the conference call.
It is cute. She wants to kiss it. She's not sure if she ought to. She is considering how best to ask, and this is clearly a challenging intellectual task.
Nathaniel proceeds with snuggles. Eventually, the Joker goes away. Nathaniel goes to bed, and invites Renata to snuggle him then too.
The next day, after breakfast and some more snuggles, he says, "I think I'm going to go visit Elspeth and the little Joker now. Do you want to come with me?"