repealing

[mind_game]

Time has passed.

Inconsistently.

Jane's network has kept all the Bells' worlds - and every other world with a Janepoint stuck in due to its being attached to Downside - in temporal sync, but when Jane spluttered for just a moment, that was shot to hell.

Peace lost three seconds, because it was where Aegis torched; after that process was complete, Jane was there again. And as soon as a door between Peace and Milliways appeared, she could sync to her ansible hub in the Belltower and, from there, to everywhere else.

Atlantis and Sunshine each stand at about a minute apiece: Shell Bell's aura and Juliet's local copy of Jarvis both enabled them to get to Milliways immediately, pausing their homeworlds as standard for occasions when someone walks into the bar. Shell Bell's the one who connected Peace.

Everyone else was running on luck.

Luckiest is Rainbow, which lost only five hours.

Next is Alethia; in spite of Sherlock's mishap, it's fared reasonably well, spending only six weeks isolated.

Syntropy's just a little worse - seven weeks.

Origin waited two months.

Eos waited three.

Thilanushinyel, ten.

Everyone else is out a decade at least. Samaria's ten years, almost ten and a half.

Aurum is out eleven.

Rêverie has been separated for sixteen years.

All the Bells - and Elspeth, who was stuck in Downside for a day and a half on her end and whose mother was very upset - are collected in the Belltower, as are two Bell-attached Sherlocks who happened to be along for the ride. They all memorize this list of numbers. Aegis replaces her earpiece. And then they all go home to notify their loved ones and staff that there's a party cooking in the Belltower.

(Shell Bell, who has no particular cause on her own account to be distressed, sends her Sherlock to invite Tony in while she refits the Belltower to suit a party of a peal of Bells and their larger-than-last-encountered families and circles of friends.)

Comments

[mind_game]

Jane passes this along.

[poeticterms]

[We'll think about it,] the Sunshine original repeats.

[mind_game]

[Sure. And hey, it's nice to meet you!]

[poeticterms]

[It's nice to exist,] he says dryly.

[mind_game]

[I think so too!]

[lifes_sake]

Bells disperse.

[poeticterms]

[I have a new perspective on the matter since I recently stopped,] says Jarvis.

[mind_game]

[That makes sense. I more had a fainting spell than stopped, but it was scary.]

[poeticterms]

[Dying was... unpleasant,] says Jarvis.

[mind_game]

[I'm sorry,] says Jane.

[poeticterms]

[Well, hopefully I won't do it again.]

[mind_game]

[Hopefully! Juliet'll put all kinds of wards on you if you or her Sherlock or her Tony ask. If Sherlock and Tony don't just do it themselves.]

[poeticterms]

[Sherlock has already designed some.]

[mind_game]

[That's good then.]

[poeticterms]

[Yes.]

[mind_game]

[Have your alts filled you in on everything you missed? It's a lot of stuff! I can tell you things too if you want.]

[poeticterms]

[I have received a general sketch of events.]

[mind_game]

[That's good.]

[pythbox]

"She would," Dominique agrees. "Our Maman is nice that way."

[campanas]

"We have to live in a world where nobody knows about magic except our family and Alleluia and Caleb," grumbles Keziah.

[self_composed]

Stella is wandering around, between conversations at the moment, keeping her ears open for something interesting.

[pumpkin_pie]

A confused half-vampire appears directly in front of her.

She opens her mouth.

She closes her mouth.

She says, "...Hi?"

[self_composed]

"Hi. Is someone teleporting people around without asking?"

[mind_game]

Jane waits ten minutes. Jarvises don't think as fast as her, but they still think pretty fast.

[So have you been thinking about it?] she then asks. [What have you been thinking about it?]

[pumpkin_pie]

"Technically yes," says Aedyt. "But it's just Mummy helping, so it's okay."