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Elspeth gets a door.
It's been so long she reels for a moment, and then she throws herself forward and almost lands in a peal of Bells. Yes, there's Shell Bell, there's Juliet and Aurora, there's Glass, there's some Matilda she hasn't seen before.
"Elspeth!" exclaims Glass.
"How long has it been?" Aurora asks.
"Seventeen years. Shell Bell - I need you to help me find Harley," says Elspeth.
her_imperial_radiance
withmypowers
Matilda blinks.
"Excuse me," she says, "but do you think you could copy that to Adularia?" She taps the rectangular moonstone pendant hanging around her neck, which shimmers.
"Excuse me," she says, "but do you think you could copy that to Adularia?" She taps the rectangular moonstone pendant hanging around her neck, which shimmers.
withmypowers
Adularia shimmers, then expands into a large, closed book with a sky-blue cover, which Agent Honey hugs against her stomach. If Aurora has her threat sensor out, it may note that Matilda is now prepared to get into some serious shit.
incanted
Aurora does have her threat sensor out. All the Bells have their auras out; hers and Shell Bell's unflavored and Glass's just barely sylvan, Juliet dripping flames and hazard, Golden every inch a vampire half stillness half speed.
salus-populi
They emerge in Aelise's office.
She raises her eyebrows, taps something on the screen in front of her, and says, "Tell Tab her alts are here."
She raises her eyebrows, taps something on the screen in front of her, and says, "Tell Tab her alts are here."
thaumobabble
Glass is looking at the world. "I do not like this world," she concludes. "It's not as - the thing Sunshine is as Sunshine, but it's not nice."
cross_and_bow
"Let's hear about Tab," invites Juliet, in tones that do not match her general hellgoddessy-ness.
her_imperial_radiance
Elspeth, meanwhile, acts on Aurora's information and kills a hex to yoink Harley into her arms.
Whatever Aelise was about to say is interrupted by the air catching on fire everywhere it touches the incandescent figure in Elspeth's arms.
cross_and_bow
Juliet's aura slurps up the fire; she's very bright, for a moment, but then it calms down in among the usual harmless licks of flame that dance on her person. Nothing catches; it is merely warm while her aura performs.
her_imperial_radiance
Harley. It's me. With Bells. And she works her witchcraft on the vestiges of what Chelsa did to him.
salus-populi
Aelise looks at Harley (who has by now finished torching and is back to an ordinary temperature) with startlement, then relief. Then she shakes her head and looks at Juliet.
"Tab. Mehitabel Marika Coscoroba. I met her eleven years ago, when she was six. And if I'm going to say anything more about her, I'm going to want some assurance that you're not quite as hostile as you look." She glances at Lizzie when she says this.
"Tab. Mehitabel Marika Coscoroba. I met her eleven years ago, when she was six. And if I'm going to say anything more about her, I'm going to want some assurance that you're not quite as hostile as you look." She glances at Lizzie when she says this.
cross_and_bow
"Weren't you going to do the talking?" Juliet asks Lizzie. "Does she mean she wants me to turn my aura off?"
giftedandtalented
Tab writes to Aelise: Would you please ask them if they can grab me down there like they did Harley?
salus-populi
Aelise glances at the screen and says, "Tab would like to be included in this conversation, if you wouldn't mind fetching her. And since she is not currently buried in the sun, it shouldn't be quite so spectacular this time."