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Here is Aurum. Harley is home again.
"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."
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her_imperial_radiance
subtly_artistic
Aether blinks, and teleports to Celo's garden, and informs the link that she has done so.
Celo appears next to her and hugs her. The garden smells like his name, and it's vibrant and healthy and beautiful - apparently celosia comes in colours.
Sue freecasts to Chronicle. [Hey Glass, know where I can find the place Celo's supposed to put his garden?]
Sue freecasts to Chronicle. [Hey Glass, know where I can find the place Celo's supposed to put his garden?]
thaumobabble
[Yes, it's -] and she sends the place Marianne picked out.
"I am, I'm gorgeous," says Celo, and Sue freecasts to the future location of the garden and shows it to Celo, who kisses Aether and—
Vanishes, garden and all. About eight feet of dirt is suddenly no longer under Aether.
Vanishes, garden and all. About eight feet of dirt is suddenly no longer under Aether.
subtly_artistic
Whoop! Now she's hovering.
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?
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?
thaumobabble
Yyyyyes. Or at least, if it doesn't, it will be for Milliways reasons and not for Materia reasons. Also THAT WOMAN IS TERRIFYING.
Terrifying how? says Sue.
thaumobabble
This is a link; Glass can show them.
Some metacausal thing wants it to be fatal to have Callahan want you dead. This doesn't, in itself, give Callahan particularly exceptional powers - if she's good in a fight, it's in some fairly usual way modulo Materia, she's not a The Slayer or anything like that as far as Glass can see, not that this should make her less intimidating if she is in fact very good. But it would still be a very wise idea not to have her want you dead. Glass is still pretty firm on torching being absolute, which just means that it would be a bad idea to have Callahan want you dead in some completely novel and probably horrifying way. Also, things Glass sees have changed before, and she is not sure which thing would win between the absoluteness of torching and the insistence that it is a metacausally bad idea to have Callahan want you dead. They may both go on being true as long as no one torchable ever instigates a contest.
She's also blaring Extremely Special on another layer which Glass hasn't seen before; she'd need to see more of it to know what it does, but whatever it is is bright and scary and intense and - Materia-flavored, not in a nauseating way, just in a sense of hereness. If Callahan isn't a Materian god, Glass has a (purely academic) curiosity about what the hell does qualify.
Some metacausal thing wants it to be fatal to have Callahan want you dead. This doesn't, in itself, give Callahan particularly exceptional powers - if she's good in a fight, it's in some fairly usual way modulo Materia, she's not a The Slayer or anything like that as far as Glass can see, not that this should make her less intimidating if she is in fact very good. But it would still be a very wise idea not to have her want you dead. Glass is still pretty firm on torching being absolute, which just means that it would be a bad idea to have Callahan want you dead in some completely novel and probably horrifying way. Also, things Glass sees have changed before, and she is not sure which thing would win between the absoluteness of torching and the insistence that it is a metacausally bad idea to have Callahan want you dead. They may both go on being true as long as no one torchable ever instigates a contest.
She's also blaring Extremely Special on another layer which Glass hasn't seen before; she'd need to see more of it to know what it does, but whatever it is is bright and scary and intense and - Materia-flavored, not in a nauseating way, just in a sense of hereness. If Callahan isn't a Materian god, Glass has a (purely academic) curiosity about what the hell does qualify.
...Wow, okay, I am scared, says Sue.
I know, right? laughs Celo.
I know, right? laughs Celo.
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I wasn't really planning to bother her, and now I really plan not to bother her, says Aether.
thaumobabble
I mean, on the other hand, if she's hireable, she could be handy if we run into anything that needs to die that we can't handle? Maybe? I don't really want to go near her and Chronicle doesn't have any of those things but if someone else needs to hire a metacausally potent assassin.
Celo apparently finds this suggestion hilarious.
thaumobabble
I have no idea if she's remotely hireable and I am not going to test the hypothesis, just throwing it out there. I am snug at home in my cotton candy world with my lovely wives and daughters not antagonizing anything that glows like that.
Good plan, says Celo. I love your world. Your world is my favourite. Hey, Aether, wanna come have sex in my garden?
(Sue notes that he has bounced that last sentence only to Aether.)
(Sue notes that he has bounced that last sentence only to Aether.)
subtly_artistic
How very kind of him.
She doesn't reply through the link, just pats Emily's wall, asks for a door, and from Milliways asks Jane to put her in Chronicle.
And then she pops into the garden's new home.
She doesn't reply through the link, just pats Emily's wall, asks for a door, and from Milliways asks Jane to put her in Chronicle.
And then she pops into the garden's new home.
Sue and Celo are both there! Sue waves cheerfully, kisses Celo, and freecasts back to Harley.
It is! It really really is.
her_imperial_radiance
Elspeth is still hanging out in the part of the Belltower they have been using to practice freecasting.
Sue gives Harley a hug and a kiss.
Harley suggests a thing to him.
"...So we're gonna have sex," he says to Elspeth, "see ya," and he and Harley freecast in near-unison to one of the Belltower's party rooms.
Harley suggests a thing to him.
"...So we're gonna have sex," he says to Elspeth, "see ya," and he and Harley freecast in near-unison to one of the Belltower's party rooms.
her_imperial_radiance
Elspeth will go home to Aurum and wait for Harley there.
Some time later, Harley appears.
He hugs her.
He seems to be doing somewhat better on the motor skills front!
Hugs!
"Love you, Elsie."
Yes, he's definitely speaking more clearly, too.
"Love you, Elsie."
Yes, he's definitely speaking more clearly, too.