friendly door

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth gets a door.

It's been so long she reels for a moment, and then she throws herself forward and almost lands in a peal of Bells. Yes, there's Shell Bell, there's Juliet and Aurora, there's Glass, there's some Matilda she hasn't seen before.

"Elspeth!" exclaims Glass.

"How long has it been?" Aurora asks.

"Seventeen years. Shell Bell - I need you to help me find Harley," says Elspeth.

Comments

[incanted]

"...So, cyborg, Gift feature, other local oddity, what exactly is going on?"

[queensidecastle]

"Cyborg," says Kers. "My Gift is an externally-focused multiple-target shield against various kinds of harm. I also happen to be hooked into the orbital ring's computer systems. And I think I'd rather wish the installation myself, Tab, if it's all the same to you. I'm the one who knows all my specifications."

[giftedandtalented]

"Sure," shrugs Tab, and she makes her three mirrory squares and hands them over.

[queensidecastle]

Kers peers thoughtfully at them, then wishes up an ansible pair and wishes half of it mysteriously disappeared.

"Gotta love instantaneous transmissions," she murmurs, smiling crookedly. "Do you want to go plug this into the ring?" She offers Tab the other half, along with the unused square.

[giftedandtalented]

"Sure." Tab scoops up all of the half-ansibles that will be remaining in Gift, and goes to plug them in. She is back a minute later. "All done. I guess we'll just stick the other halves in the Janepoints?"

[queensidecastle]

"Seems reasonable," says Kers.

[she_sells_seashells]

"Shall we? Anybody staying behind?" asks Shell Bell, particularly glancing at Lizzie.

[prima_sequentem]

"If you don't mind, yeah, I think I'll hang out and catch up with my alt."

[luminous_regnant]

Golden hesitates, but ultimately doesn't say anything.

[she_sells_seashells]

Out go Bells.

Downside peer Bells, and they sweep for templates from Gift.

[pythbox]

There are four - an Ike, a Val, a Lazarus, and a Kolya.

[giftedandtalented]

Tab expects them to be inconvenient to fetch later, since she can't door at will and Shell Bell has her own empire to run, but she doesn't have anything to do with them immediately; she retrieves them asleep, thanks the admin, and brings them home to stash in an out-of-the-way bit of orbital ring. Shouldn't make any difference to them.

[queensidecastle]

"You get me such interesting presents," Kers remarks.

[giftedandtalented]

"Don't unwrap them till the correct holiday."

[queensidecastle]

"It's a deal."

[giftedandtalented]

Stash. Departure. Installing a Kersible in the Downside Janepoint.

And now to Eos!