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.

Comments

[her_imperial_radiance]

"About a decade. I wasn't here, though, I was Downside and experienced less than two days of outage. And this was one of the harder-hit worlds. Rainbow only missed a few hours even though it has no special characteristics like Atlantis or Sunshine relative to Milliways doors."

[pythbox]

"So I guess we just have to wait and see," says Nathaniel.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes. By the same token Samaria could have a wildly divergent amount of time lost."

[pythbox]

"I'll miss my nieces," he says thoughtfully. "But I'll see them again someday."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes. Although they may be full grown by the time you do."

[pythbox]

Nathaniel shrugs.

Harley crawls back to Elspeth and leans his head on her knee.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth pets Harley's hair.

[pythbox]

Harley snuggles her leg.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Feeling better?"

[pythbox]

"Meh," says Harley.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"You'll bounce back from the disappointment soon," Elspeth assures him. Pet pet.

[pythbox]

Snuggle. Siiiiiiiiiiigh.

Nathaniel grins.