i am the oncoming storm

[autokinetic]

There are three Bells in Milliways.

They want a fourth. A fifth. A sixth. A seventh.

And then Downside is going down.

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[lookingforwardtoit]

"Do you know how long it's been since I've even seen a three-year-old? But I'm sure your kid is adorable. Anyway, yeah - double date, let me know."

[ending_of]

"Would the catacombs themselves suit your size requirements?"

[temporal_affairs]

"See you 'round," says Nathan.

[mind_game]

Obligingly, Jane puts him back in Milliways.

[gunpowdergelatine]

Where the Joker snuggle-attacks immediately.

[autokinetic]

"Depends on how amenable they are to being rewired to let Jane see their contents," says Aegis. "We were teleporting around, didn't get a good impression of the physical layout."

[temporal_affairs]

Aww! Snuggles!

[gunpowdergelatine]

"We should have a double date with those two, I love 'em."

[temporal_affairs]

"We can look them up after Downside shakes out."

[ending_of]

"The physical layout doesn't matter. The catacombs are under the cliffs, centred on this tower, with one entrance at the Upside ground level and the other at Downside's. Everything else about them can be changed."

[gunpowdergelatine]

"Let's!"

[self_composed]

"Perhaps we should put you in our link?" Stella wonders aloud. "It makes working out things like that much faster. Jane could tell you directly what she'd need, to be able to operate there, in terms of sensory networks and computing hardware."

[ending_of]

She shrugs.

[mind_game]

Jane shares.

[self_composed]

"...About the new worlds that show up periodically. Are all of ours attached? We only know about Shell Bell who's not here, and Golden and Juliet and Template. What about me and Angela and Aegis and Amariah?"

"I should really think of a better name," muses Template. "Not much of a theme, is it."

[ending_of]

"Yours are," she says, pointing to Golden, Juliet, and Template. "And the one you mentioned who isn't here. None of the rest are. I could connect to them, except yours," she says, indicating Amariah. "You have an afterlife that's taking precedence."

[autokinetic]

"...So on our worlds there's just nothing? If you connect us do you get people who've died in the past or just going forward?"

[dark_light]

"...Can you tell anything about mine besides that it exists?"

[ending_of]

To Aegis: "Past, present, and future."

To Amariah: "No."

[dark_light]

"Well," says Amariah. "I suppose we may have another project on our hands."

[self_composed]

"Hook me up," says Stella, "it's better than nothing - at least it is now."

[autokinetic]

"Me too."

[jovahs_heiress]

"Agreed."

[luminous_regnant]

"First things first, Amariah," says Golden dryly. "This is already a multi-year project and we are not patient sorts. Yours can be next. Perhaps it is lovely and not urgent at all and all it needs is a loop back so that people can interact with their dead."

[dark_light]

"...Maybe. I'm unsettled by the way daemons disappear where humans and witches leave corpses, though, I don't know what to make of that now."