autokinetic: (rapt)
Author: autokinetic
After Sue comes back from freecasting lessons and inaugurating Harley into the exciting world of Jokers having sex with each other, Aegis asks him, "So who all knows what really happened to me? Anybody but you?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox		"Howlett, Whitlock, Merryweather," he lists. "Nobody else knows about alternate worlds."
autokinetic: (enh)
Author: autokinetic		"I vaguely wonder what my parents think. I guess they can get the public story to start with, whatever we settle on. I think I will let those three know I am back."

She starts with Howlett and Whitlock, because she is not sure how to tell Merryweather he has an alt who's dating one of hers.

[Guess who!]
areyouabeer: (⑤ hiding a smile)
Author: areyouabeer		[No idea,] Howlett says dryly.
autokinetic: (c'mon)
Author: autokinetic		[Pff,] Aegis tells him. [It is me. Now you know.]

[Welcome home,] Whitlock says, which seems to be that.
areyouabeer: (③ yeah all right)
Author: areyouabeer		[Welcome back. Your boyfriend stole your Hegemony.]
autokinetic: (edible)
Author: autokinetic		[He took very good care of it while I was indisposed,] corrects Aegis loftily, [and will give it over as soon as we know how not to traumatize the poor fuzzy dear.]
areyouabeer: (④ say something funny)
Author: areyouabeer		[Sure.]
autokinetic: (tomorrow)
Author: autokinetic		[How've you been?]
areyouabeer: (⑦ a day at the races)
Author: areyouabeer		[Just dandy, you?]
autokinetic: (fold)
Author: autokinetic		[I was only gone for a few days but I was in this insane world where causality doesn't work, it was not fun.]
areyouabeer: (⑥ eyebrow up)
Author: areyouabeer		[Doesn't sound it.]
autokinetic: (Default)
Author: autokinetic		[Yeah. There was a Bell in it and the place kinda stunted her growth.]
areyouabeer: (③ yeah all right)
Author: areyouabeer		He snorts.
autokinetic: (c'mon)
Author: autokinetic		[I mean like psychologically. She's shorter than me, but they all are except the boy one on account of zero gee and good old Battle School Science Diet. Do you wanna come to the next Bellparty?]
areyouabeer: (② well you're cute)
Author: areyouabeer		[I've heard about those,] he says. [Not sure if I like what I heard, but maybe you have a different take.]
autokinetic: (photo)
Author: autokinetic		[Lotta Bells, lotta people Bells know, Glass says being a template is contagious so maybe you run into a surprise.]
areyouabeer: (⑥ eyebrow up)
Author: areyouabeer		[Uh-huh.]
autokinetic: (rapt)
Author: autokinetic		[It'll be in the Belltower, I think; after twice no matter how safe we think Jane is there is no way we're putting that many people in one world at the same time again without a Jane-independent way to get home. Or maybe Sunshine will host, there's a Jarvis there and they can do Milliways doors.]
areyouabeer: (⑧ beer has been achieved)
Author: areyouabeer		[Yeah, I've heard about Milliways, too.]
autokinetic: (evaluating)
Author: autokinetic		[I will be a while catching up on how in the know everybody is, I guess.]
areyouabeer: (③ yeah all right)
Author: areyouabeer		[Guess so.]
autokinetic: (playful)
Author: autokinetic		[I'm gonna tell Merryweather that Pattern is dating his rockstar alt now.]

[Hey Merryweather!]
jellyinthemix: (⑧ cuppa tea cuppa tea)
Author: jellyinthemix		[Yes?]
autokinetic: (c'mon)
Author: autokinetic		She decides to just go for it. [Turns out Pattern is dating your rockstar alt!]
jellyinthemix: (⑫ they can just stay dirty)
Author: jellyinthemix





autokinetic: (playful)
Author: autokinetic		[I didn't meet him, the reassembling peal left him in Rêverie before they found me and the rest of the welcoming committee, but apparently his name is Ripper and he is a rock star and Glass says he's a you.]
jellyinthemix: (⑤ do go on)
Author: jellyinthemix		[Is that so,] he sighs.
autokinetic: (good)
Author: autokinetic		[It is so! And most of the peal has now seen him naked, which has to have been weird. Shell Bell's doors are not as good a mechanism for getting places as Jane is when Jane is available.]
jellyinthemix: (⑨ librarian sensibilities)
Author: jellyinthemix		[...Noted.]
autokinetic: (photo)
Author: autokinetic		[Yeah, they walked in on Alice too. Anyway. How have you been in your not-a-rock-star-ness?]
jellyinthemix: (⑥ one way or the other)
Author: jellyinthemix		[Continuing not to be a rock star, thank goodness.]
autokinetic: (c'mon)
Author: autokinetic		[Lucky you. I hope it was not a terrible disruption that I did not wind up installing a Jarvis station before I left.]
jellyinthemix: (⑧ cuppa tea cuppa tea)
Author: jellyinthemix		[I managed. But if you do still plan on installing such a station, I'd be happy to move there.]
autokinetic: (good)
Author: autokinetic		[I will once it's clear how to fold it into eventual Hegemony transfer, public relations, et cetera, I don't want to screw things up. Glass has a Jarvis now too.]
jellyinthemix: (⑤ do go on)
Author: jellyinthemix		[Best talk to the admiral about that. I'm sure you can work it out between you.]
autokinetic: (rapt)
Author: autokinetic		[Sue being the admiral? I hope they haven't retroactively stripped my rank.]
jellyinthemix: (⑧ cuppa tea cuppa tea)
Author: jellyinthemix		[There are plenty of admirals. I've just taken to calling him that.]
autokinetic: (good)
Author: autokinetic		[Okay. Yeah, we have a lot of figuring to do.]
jellyinthemix: (⑥ one way or the other)
Author: jellyinthemix		[Best of luck.]