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[No,] says Lycaelon.

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Corona is available! So are Jellybean, Alice, Beast, Queenie, and - surprisingly - War.

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[Well, you can still teleport to it if your teleporting works like Bell teleporting. There's a bunch of Jokers handy! Corona's fastest. Jellybean, Alice, Beast, Queenie, and War also volunteer.]

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He teleports to the Janepoint.

[I might as well ask Corona, then. And whoever else wants to come along for fun.]
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[Oh hey! You're a template!]

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"...I am?"

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[Yep. There's one of you in Peace. Maybe more, but none I've seen.]

[Hey War, this guy turns out to be an alt of Howlett.]
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"Oh," says Lycaelon. "That's—"

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War freecasts to the Thilanushinyel Janepoint.

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"—surprising. Hello."

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"Awww, it's a cute little Howlett," War says delightedly. "Hi! I'm War."

He gives Lycaelon a hug, links him, cues Jane to send him to Chronicle, and freecasts there himself.
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Yoink!

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The other polled Jokers have assembled at the Chronicle Janepoint by the time War finishes hugging Lycaelon again.

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The local Jarvis directs them all to a nearby guest room.

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Some time later - rather longer than it would have taken just to channel up the aura, especially considering Lycaelon was already most of the way there - Corona brainphones Glass.

[Hey, got time to look at an aura?]
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[Sure, although I can't always figure them out completely, you want Lazarus for the full interpretive diagnosis.]

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[Yeah. Are you in the castle, or should we teleport?]

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[I'm up in my library.]

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Corona teleports.

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A moment later, so does Lycaelon.

His aura is noticeably different in flavour from the Bells' magicmagicmagic and the Jokers' theatrical center-of-attention. It advertises that he is powerful and capable, but doesn't bother specifying exactly what he is capable of.

"I've figured out one part," he says. "Enhanced senses. But I can tell there's more to it, and I have no idea what it does."
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"Ooh, the senses are a template attractor," Glass says, blinking at him, "that didn't have a way to get at you till just now but took the chance when you gave it an opening. The rest of it looks - not exactly like Sarion's. Yours is more... metaphorical? Is it okay if I have a peep at your mindscape? And it's cooperating with some other stuff that isn't aura that was already protecting your mind, looks very Thilanushinyel-y."

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"Go ahead and look. It got bigger all of a sudden," he says. "Or - not exactly bigger - but it used to be a forest in the middle of nothing in particular, and now it's a forest in the middle of more forest. A lot more."

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Glass nods, closing her eyes to focus on the forest. "Yeah - the outer forest will sort of entrap anything that tries to get into the inner forest, unless you lead it in. The mind-protecting magic you already had wouldn't have done anything about a dragonbond, but this will, you'll basically be able to escort Ansharil between inner and outer forests whenever you like."

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"Well, that's convenient."

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Corona laughs and hugs him.

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