in which the bells have a lot to think about

[subtly_artistic]

Amariah recites the entire conversation she and Callahan had to the assembled Bells and Jokers that evening, after Aether has gotten back from the dining hall.

Comments

[pythbox]

Celo shrugs. "I'm willing to try visiting other worlds, anyway."

[autokinetic]

"Yeah, 'course you are, but - I dunno, you don't look torchable, maybe your field would if we looked at it, maybe the admin could make it work regardless? I dunno."

[dark_light]

"Or he could stay and Aether could go and they could see each other as Milliways allows," says Amariah. "There's options. I just - maybe you can just be a mental healer clamping down on every third thought you have, but you could do more than that, Aether."

[subtly_artistic]

Aether squirms.

[pythbox]

Celo hugs her.

[subtly_artistic]

Hugs.

[pythbox]

Snuggles.

[subtly_artistic]

"Would that be really bad for you?" Aether asks Celo. "If I went off somewhere - somewhere nice - and you couldn't stay there?"

[pythbox]

He shrugs.

"I dunno. I could visit, I guess."

[lifes_sake]

"If the door cooperates."

[autokinetic]

"Should one of us be on opening-lots-of-doors duty?"

[dark_light]

"Yeah, probably - where are there a lot of doors one of us can open without attracting unwanted attention?"

[subtly_artistic]

"I want to suggest Emily, I can talk to her for you and she can probably line up all the doors you could possibly want - Emily is an aware building," Aether says.

[autokinetic]

"Oh, that's even better than just a long underused hallway, aware buildings are totally sometimes able to help with doors, Jarvises can do it. Except the Yggdrasil one because he's never had a door open in him before, but if anyone's ever opened a door to Milliways in Emily, there's some chance she'll... Is this also cheating, excessively regular, blah blah?"

[subtly_artistic]

Aether shrugs. "I don't know anything about it, but I can ask her."

[lifes_sake]

"Who wants dooring duty first?"

[autokinetic]

"I'll take it," shrugs Aegis. "C'mon, Aether, introduce me to Emily."

[subtly_artistic]

Aether gets up and shows invisible-Aegis out of the room and to Emily.