mind_game: (fractal)
Jane ([personal profile] mind_game) wrote2013-05-03 04:48 pm

repealing

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.)
gunpowdergelatine: Grinning. (♠3/I'm all love)

[personal profile] gunpowdergelatine 2013-05-05 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm very huggable," she agrees. "But you can't keep me."
gunpowdergelatine: Smirking faintly, touching thumb to lips. (♣5/don't want the devil to)

[personal profile] gunpowdergelatine 2013-05-05 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
She ruffles Keziah's hair, lets her go, and then turns to Céleste.
campanas: (secondborn belljokes 3)

[personal profile] campanas 2013-05-05 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Céleste takes her turn.

Hugs are distributed all around and then Céleste goes to her very own papa and wishes to be picked up. Keziah wants her mommy to lift her.
jovahs_heiress: (Default)

[personal profile] jovahs_heiress 2013-05-05 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Keziah's mommy is happy to pick her up. (She wandered over while the hugs were underway and has been watching in amusement.)
deslandes: (② but I love this game ⚦)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-05-05 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Céleste's papa picks her up very happily!
endragoned: (⑤ is this love)

[personal profile] endragoned 2013-05-05 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Aianon hugs Queenie. The pair of them teleport away. The Jokers begin uncongregating.