"I minted you," Elspeth murmurs to him, sending a notice to the Joker that he's got a new alt he could choose to entertain because she's busy and teleporting herself and her ward to their living room in Québec. "And stuck it on."
"The peal and all our friends, seems like, given the number of obvious applications for therapizing I've encountered in the last hour."
"So between that and the fact that a pentagon for subtle arts only helped a little I think I'll finish my degree, maybe accelerated or something."
"Yeah. So - Elspeth, I hear you're good at summarizing things? Can you get me up to speed on all the things?"
Eventually, Sue sends Aether a quick heads-up and Celo appears, hair slightly mussed but as sparkling clean as usual, with a big grin on his face.
"Yeah, I think I've got the hang of this shit," he says. "Sue, you wanna anchor me in Chronicle just in case? Aether, wanna go grab my field?"
"Can do. Let me get Glass for a second peek at the world without so much vomiting this time. Sue, can you keep me in link just in case?"
"I don't need you to go very far or leave my aura at all," soothes Aether. And out they go to the door, which Aether opens - discernible aura snugly withdrawn.
Aether blinks, and teleports to Celo's garden, and informs the link that she has done so.
She teleports back into Emily, and touches the building's mind.
Emily knows how to do that door thing! She can do it right now if her friend Bella wants her to. She is a smart building.
Aether shares this with everyone - Emily is so cute, Bella really likes her - Glass, will time in fact pause here if I go out again?
Yyyyyes. Or at least, if it doesn't, it will be for Milliways reasons and not for Materia reasons. Also THAT WOMAN IS TERRIFYING.