we're convenient to a wide variety of establishments

[cross_and_bow]

Ooh, Milliways. It's in her house - inside her house, in the closet where she was about to seek a change of pants - so she can't invite Sherlock along without inviting a vampire into Charlie's house without Charlie's consent. Ah well. She can still go check the Belltower. In she goes!

There's a Whistle. She can't remember this one's name, he's the one whose Bell hasn't been in. "Hey, Whistle," says Juliet.

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[pythbox]

"Be admirals," he says. "If we can get ourselves unkidnapped first."

[cross_and_bow]

"I wish you the very best of luck. What do space admirals do?"

[pythbox]

"Not a whole lot, when there's no war on," shrugs Sue. "But we're gonna be talking to the buggers for a while. Right now I'm pretty much the only one who can."

[cross_and_bow]

"Because of the mutation thing. Can you do that with your Bell or does she shut you out? What about me? And you met Angela and Stella and Amariah before, right, did you try them?"

[pythbox]

"I can do Aegis if she tries," he says, nudging Juliet's mind.

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet's version of the power doesn't work like a wall. It works like she's insubstantial. There is nothing to nudge, even if it looks like there should be. Juliet doesn't appear to notice him doing anything.

[pythbox]

"But not you, apparently."

[cross_and_bow]

"Huh. Well, we all get the same sort of power, just in different ways - Stella and Golden are pretty closely matched but even theirs aren't exactly identical. Did you try the other Bells you met, or did they not think to inquire?"

[pythbox]

"Don't remember."

[cross_and_bow]

"Fair enough. I wonder how long it'll take Aegis to find her way into Milliways. I wanna meet her."

[pythbox]

"She's the best," Sue asserts.

[cross_and_bow]

"We do seem to have a knack for attracting companions and significant others who'll assert that about us," says Juliet. "I wanna meet her so I know what makes her different from Bells in general."

[pythbox]

"We had a kid together," he offers, as a possible distinguishing feature. "Not the usual way - I don't think she's had sex, and she definitely hasn't had it with me. But it turns out this game we both played a lot ended up turning into a person."

[cross_and_bow]

"...That," says Juliet, "is definitely a weird one. Angela and Micaiah are gonna have a kid but I think they produced the happy news in the traditional way. How did a game turn into a person?"

[pythbox]

"It's a computer game," he says. "And she's really smart. Her name's Jane."

[cross_and_bow]

"So Jane's a... computer-person." Pause. "I wonder if I should introduce you to Jarvis."

[pythbox]

"Is Jarvis a computer-person?" he inquires.

[cross_and_bow]

"Yep. He was made on purpose, though. The one here is a copy of one from another world, because the one originally from here died and my Sherlock missed him."

[pythbox]

"Awwwwww," says Sue.

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah. You might want to consider seeing if you can back up Jane to disk somewhere in case of malice or disaster. Computer-people are not invulnerable."

[pythbox]

"...I don't know if that makes sense," he says. "The way she talks, it's almost like she is computers, not just a program running on them."

[cross_and_bow]

"Huh, what do you mean?"

[pythbox]

"I dunno," he says. "I'd show you, but—" he smiles, shrugs.

[cross_and_bow]

"Right," laughs Juliet. "Pros and cons, but on the whole I'm glad I'm one of the opaque ones."

[pythbox]

"One time they drugged Aegis to shut down her power," he says. "It was really fucked up. But they backed right up when she told 'em I can link her anyway."