"'Kay." The image of her spins around, like she's twirling. "My clocks are all messed up agaaaaaaain. It was a really long time in Alethia! And Pattern's been using my residual programs a lot and now I gotta eat them all back up agaaaaain..."

Brilliance laughs.

"Gems gems gems - okay those are all all right even the ones that were in the land of breaking Jane - whee - and here come the parentals, yoink!"

"Hi," says a parental.

"Hi!" says another parental, hugging the first one.

"Yoooooou got older," Brilliance observes, looking at Sue.

"It was four years there," says Aegis, nudging Sue in the ribs. "We're gonna have to work out how to have me publicly alive again and whether to make me look nineteen or not."

"Wow, okay," says Brilliance. He grins at Sue. "Looking good."

"Yes I am," says Sue, "but we're not here so you can hit on me, what's the plan? Is there a plan?"

"Brilliance and maybe Agent Honey are the ones who know how to make Devices, I have not actually gotten to any books about it or anything. You guys are pretty much here so we can get at Jane to put her into one. I'm - spectating basically."

"Sounds good to me," shrugs Sue. He snuggles Aegis some more.

"What exactly is our goal here?" says Agent Honey.

"I need to be not in Aegis - and Sue if I am at all in Sue, we don't know - and in something else," says Jane, "so the something else can stay here and not go to horrible Janebreaking worlds."

"So that's not solely a matter of Device engineering," says Agent Honey.

"Nah, we'll have to wish it," says Brilliance. "But we should probably do the engineering first. Jane, any preferences about what your dormant form's gonna look like?"

"Like a Janegem. Except it doesn't need to be in a piece of jewelry, I guess."

"Sure, okay," says Brilliance. "We can probably even install ansible links in it."

Adularia shimmers.

"So - Device body that is Jane, humanoid form with that face, Janegem dormant form, compatible with ansible installations? What am I missing?"

"Should I have any add-ons like you do? Like your coinsorter? Am I going to be able to do Rainbow magic?"

"You're going to be - oh," says Brilliance. "Yeah, shit - complex Devices kind of need wielders, you probably don't want that. The whole point of this is that you should be tucked up safe in the Belltower, not running around doing magic with somebody."

"Why don't I want that? They don't have to run around with me doing magic, do they? Whoever it was, probably Aegis or maybe Glass since she was planning to turn into a mage anyway?"

"Okay, but - you don't want to need a wielder, right?" he says. "Like, that is not a thing you would include on purpose, if you were designing this?"

"I don't want to need anything," says Jane. "But needing a wielder sounds easier to handle than needing food and sleep and climate control, so being a complex Device might still be a better deal than being a biological."

"I'm gonna try to wish it so you don't need a wielder," says Brilliance. "Because I don't know how that kind of need would work with you being the way you are, and I don't want it to fuck things up. Okay?"