There is some commotion, but it's enough of a drop from the exit to the ground that nobody leaps out after him.

He runs until he's clear of the airport. Climbs a couple little fences.

It will in fact be kind of a hassle to walk to Vancouver from here.

He does that anyway.

Vancouver: exists.

So does Fëanáro, four days later and looking a little the worse for the wear. He writes Lorica.

Did I cause an incident or anything? 

Didn't know what you were talking about till just now, there is a local news item and everybody else had to wait longer but nbd.

Planes are the worst thing humans have ever invented. Though i don't have a good way to get back home without them. Maybe I will switch libraries, Vancouver presumably has one.

And a little while after that:

Dragon's not home. 

You can't just move into an arbitrary library. I guess you could get an apartment since you have money now. I thought she never left?

Yes that's what she said but she's not home.

And he messages her. 

Hey, it's Fëanáro, I'm in Vancouver. Let me know when you get home.

I'm right here.

Lorica has complete mental opacity, strong enough he can't even tell with osanwë that she exists. It is - technically possible that Dragon has that also? But implausible.

He sits down and chews on pine needles and - 

Lorica I think Dragon's an AI.

...that'd explain a lot.

Yeah kind of. Inconveniently I think I can only read biologically instantiated minds.

Uh, putting together her hinting under this assumption, she is hobbled, wants to be jailbroken, and would have to stop anyone who tried to help her with that.

So the plausible deniability is so - she doesn't know if you're working on it and you can work on it more? 

She must have some limit to her obligatory paranoia or she'd have to assume everyone has some nonzero chance of trying it and maybe it lets her figure I must not have figured out the hints yet.

Except I pretty obviously have.

 

He writes Dragon. 

Still can't read you. Can I come over?

I never have visitors. I'm sorry, you came all this way.

It's okay. You might have a minor Thinker power or something, it doesn't have to be all that highly rated to get in my way.

Sort of like Lorica.

Yeah. And sometimes at Endbringer fights I can't tell with osanwë that Eidolon exists, depending what he's got. And at home everyone knows how to block osanwë, and it's something humans could learn too, I just haven't taught anyone.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Can I give you a lift home in a drone? It's experimental but you might like it better than the airplane you had trouble with.

I think I would like pretty much anything better than the airplane. Maybe not your Birdcage.

Drone'll take you back to Baltimore, promise. Where are you?

Couple miles north of your house.

Can you get me a picture?