her_imperial_radiance | Milliways Again

her_imperial_radiance

It lurks. Oh how it lurks.

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prima_sequentem

"Sure," Libby says agreeably. "How are you going to stash yours?"

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self_composed

"Treasure chest from good old Elias," Bella says.

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prima_sequentem

"Good old Elias indeed. I'll probably have to spend a pentagon to get mine stored away—do you mind...?"

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self_composed

Bella shrugs and hands one over. "How do you keep yours normally?"

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prima_sequentem

"...Stacked," she says. "It's easy to conceptualize but kind of complicated to explain—remind me when we're not busy and I'll tell you all about it."

She walks to the door, opens it, glances around her living room, and spends the pentagon to no visible effect.

"There, your turn."

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self_composed

Bella goes to the door. She makes her agony beam toggleable with an expenditure of a pentagon - by her only. Then she toggles it, and puts her remaining pentagons and hexes and stars away too, not without some trepidation but without too much delay either. The rest of her standing powers aren't harmful. Mere aikido skill and super-speed probably will not faze vampires and werewolves.

Edited Date: 2013-01-11 02:58 am (UTC)

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prima_sequentem

Libby returns to Elspeth.

"All done," she says, ceremonially dusting off her hands. "Go ahead and check my scariness levels."

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her_imperial_radiance

Elspeth peers at her, then turns to Jake and says, "She couldn't give either of us an irrecoverable injury."

And then she turns to Bella, and then back to Jake. "She could because she's faster with their magic, but she's not faster than a full vampire, and she's got weaker defense than Grandma and so is easier to take down if she tries."

Jake fidgets uncomfortably, eyeing Bella.

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self_composed

Bella doesn't think there's a whole lot she can say in self-defense here. If they were willing to trust her disinterest in harming them, they wouldn't be doing this. "I can go put my squares away, too; I can still make them, but that will cut my reaction time," she says tonelessly.

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her_imperial_radiance

"That might be best for the first visit," says Elspeth sympathetically.

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self_composed

"Since I have nothing on me that can move stuff as far as the treasure chest from here, I'll have to teleport; Libby, hold the door for me?"

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prima_sequentem

"Will do."

Elspeth's security measures are not quite unexpectedly stringent, but Libby is still sympathetic to Bella's apparent discomfort.

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self_composed

Bella goes, and teleports to where the treasure chest is currently living in an extremely otherwise inaccessible section of Moonstone Palace. She squares off all the other squares and teleports back to Libby's living room, feeling extremely naked in nothing but clothes and a string of triangles and tempted to punch the wall or bite her lip or dig her knuckle into her wrist right then.

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prima_sequentem

Libby winces in empathy.

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her_imperial_radiance

"I'm sorry," says Elspeth, but she runs the check again and this time Bella comes up just under the threshold of acceptability. "Um, Bella, in fairness, we can't seriously hurt you either. The vampires are faster but only one of them can teleport, he can't track you, and you can heal any wounds anybody could give you before you could jump away."

Edited Date: 2013-01-11 03:21 am (UTC)

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self_composed

"That's good," mutters Bella.

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prima_sequentem

"So. Time to visit?"

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self_composed

"I suppose," Bella says.

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her_imperial_radiance

"Okay. Here goes," Elspeth says. She heads for the door, and when she opens it, it does not lead to Libby's living room. Instead, it leads to a room with a copier and a vampire in it. "Hi, Santiago," she says. "I went to Milliways and I found my alternate universe mama and grandma."

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prima_sequentem

Libby trails after her, with a friendly smile for Santiago.

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her_imperial_radiance

Santiago is impressively unruffled by this. "Would you like me to announce them for you?" she asks politely.

"If you don't mind," says Elspeth.

"Not at all." Santiago runs away - that's either customary here or this is the sort of task that requires haste.

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self_composed

"Is there a standard announcement for that?"

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her_imperial_radiance

"Not really, but she'll come up with some less bizarre sounding way to put it, and then people won't waste time being surprised when we get there," shrugs Elspeth. "So, welcome to 2030 Golden-Empire-World Norway. This capital is called, um, Lisel, because my parents considered that name for me and this is mostly a capital site since I was born here."