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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.
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luminous_regnant
Well, Harley is just going to... sit there... and feel thwarted.
her_imperial_radiance
He may do that if he chooses.
"I hope you won't be stuck here longer than you'd prefer to stay," Elspeth says to Nathaniel, "but I didn't find any doors yesterday, and I tried for hours, which worries me. I used to find them very frequently."
"I hope you won't be stuck here longer than you'd prefer to stay," Elspeth says to Nathaniel, "but I didn't find any doors yesterday, and I tried for hours, which worries me. I used to find them very frequently."
Nathaniel shrugs.
"The Joker gave me an asteroid. I don't really miss Samaria that much."
"The Joker gave me an asteroid. I don't really miss Samaria that much."
her_imperial_radiance
Renata nuzzles his neck happily.
"That's good then," says Elspeth. "At least this time everyone who lives here is here."
"That's good then," says Elspeth. "At least this time everyone who lives here is here."
"I don't remember the beginning of the last time that well; I was just a kid," he says. "How long was this world cut off, that time?"
her_imperial_radiance
"About a decade. I wasn't here, though, I was Downside and experienced less than two days of outage. And this was one of the harder-hit worlds. Rainbow only missed a few hours even though it has no special characteristics like Atlantis or Sunshine relative to Milliways doors."
"So I guess we just have to wait and see," says Nathaniel.
her_imperial_radiance
"Yes. By the same token Samaria could have a wildly divergent amount of time lost."
"I'll miss my nieces," he says thoughtfully. "But I'll see them again someday."
her_imperial_radiance
"Yes. Although they may be full grown by the time you do."
Nathaniel shrugs.
Harley crawls back to Elspeth and leans his head on her knee.
Harley crawls back to Elspeth and leans his head on her knee.
Harley snuggles her leg.
"Meh," says Harley.
her_imperial_radiance
"You'll bounce back from the disappointment soon," Elspeth assures him. Pet pet.
Snuggle. Siiiiiiiiiiigh.
Nathaniel grins.
Nathaniel grins.
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