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[cross_and_bow]

After talking to Soph and sending her off to make gingerbread houses with Tony, Bella says:

[Sherlock?]

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[Might be because Jarvis can talk to them, depending on how it works. I didn't ask the admin while I was there - she'd know, she judgesighted me.]

[toblameforit]

[You could go check, I guess.]

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[Yeah, I think I will. If that's how it works I might want to, like, wish everybody not-a-carrier for the spell. If Aurora wants her end of the conversations we had about our respective sisters later instead of just having me repeat them for her, she's got coins coming out of her ears and no native opacity, she can do it that way.] Bella disentangles from Sherlock with a parting kiss and heads for a door. "Can I get me some Milliways, please, Jarvis?"

[poeticterms]

"Certainly."

Door!

[cross_and_bow]

Goodbye Sunshine. Hello Downside? Maybe she can do it without a star this time; she thinks about being technically dead and tries it.

[ending_of]

Hello, Downside.

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[Hey,] Bella asks, [sorry to bother you - do you by any chance know me to have a sister?]

[ending_of]

[No.]

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[That,] says Bella, [is interesting. Would you object strenuously if, to test a hypothesis, I did something that might cause you to remember me having a sister?]

[ending_of]

[No.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Okay.]

Door. Door Sunshine. "Hey Sherlock, want to play Magical Typhoid Carrier? The admin does not remember Soph."

[eversomuchfun]

"Happily."

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Door. Door Downside.

[How about now?] she asks the admin.

[ending_of]

[Interesting,] says the admin.

[cross_and_bow]

[Can I get a little more detail than that?]

[ending_of]

[I now have both sets of memories available.]

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[How peculiar; that didn't happen to anyone else without specific intervention. Did you get enough detail about how it happened to tell us how the spell does that?]

[ending_of]

[The spell tried to alter my memories, but I chose not to let it finish the job.]

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[And it only did that when Sherlock stepped in.] They're standing in Shell's old clutterful apartment, door held. [Okay, thanks. While we're here - what changed about Steph? Besides that she's a Christmas light now.]

[ending_of]

[The visual effect represents a change in her nature corresponding with the loss of Sherlock's soul.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Do you not know anything else about the change in her nature?]

[ending_of]

[Until she becomes conscious again, there is nothing else to be known.]

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"D'you want to wake her now, or think more?" Bella asks Sherlock softly.

[eversomuchfun]

"Well, it seems a little silly to come all this way and not ask her what she thinks of the whole business."

[Could you wake her up long enough for me to ask if she wants to stay that way?]

[ending_of]

[Done.]