adrift again

[luminous_regnant]

When the Aurum Janepoint pops up with the error message "error 99: bottles of beer on the wall" and will not respond to any sort of prodding or magic, Bella makes a general announcement to the majority of adults on the brainphone network.

[Jane has encountered a new and different form of error, and we are stuck here until someone finds a door or until further notice. Elspeth, please begin looking for doors.]

[Will do,] Elspeth replies into the conference call.

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[manofmyword]

[Oh boy,] says the Joker, to a much smaller subset of the adults on the brainphone network.

[alicornucopia]

"I guess that means I can't go home with you," muses Renata. "...But, but it means you can stay here with me!"

[pythbox]

"...Yeah," says Nathaniel. He seems sort of ambivalent about this.

[alicornucopia]

"Is that okay?"

[pythbox]

He thinks about it.

"...I don't know the world," he says. "Or have anywhere to stay."

[manofmyword]

"I'll get you set, don't worry," says the Joker. "How would you like your very own asteroid?"

[pythbox]

Nathaniel blinks at him.

[alicornucopia]

"This would probably not be a good place for you to stay," observes Renata. "It's not designed for humans to live in."

[pythbox]

"Neither are asteroids, usually," says Nathaniel. "But I guess Aedyt's was okay."

[manofmyword]

"Yeah, that's the idea," says the Joker. "A nice little house on a nice little asteroid. Everything you could need, plus a teleportation power so you can go visiting if you wanna. Mm?"

[pythbox]

Slowly, Nathaniel nods.

[manofmyword]

The Joker snaps his fingers theatrically, and they are all three of them standing on a nice little asteroid, next to a nice little house.

"Ta-daa."

[alicornucopia]

"This is cute," asserts Renata.

[manofmyword]

"Sure is!" says the Joker.

[pythbox]

Nathaniel giggles.

[alicornucopia]

"And you're cute," Renata tells Nathaniel. "Can I hug you?"

[pythbox]

"...Okay."

[alicornucopia]

She perhaps takes a liberty with the definition of "hug" when she lifts him off the ground and snuggles him like he's a teddy bear, but she looks deliriously happy about it.

[pythbox]

...

Nathaniel giggles again.

[alicornucopia]

Snuggles! Grinning happy snuggles.

[pythbox]

Giggly snuggles.

[alicornucopia]

"I love you. You're my favorite thing."

[pythbox]

"Awwwwwww," says Nathaniel, snuggling her. (She is not very snuggable. But he supposes she can't help that.)

[alicornucopia]

(She is doing her very best!)

[pythbox]

Anyway, he likes how she's all happy. And calling him her favourite person. Those are nice.