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

[alicornucopia]

His newly acquired vampire is so happy about that!

[pythbox]

It's nice when she is happy! He likes her being happy at him.

[alicornucopia]

She will do it lots if he keeps being snuggly with her!

[pythbox]

Hooray for snuggles, then!

[alicornucopia]

Hooraaaaay!

[manofmyword]

"You two are just precious," the Joker observes.

[alicornucopia]

Renata has no comment besides to continue doing exactly what she is doing.

[pythbox]

Nathaniel, on the other hand, has a blush.

[alicornucopia]

It is cute. She wants to kiss it. She's not sure if she ought to. She is considering how best to ask, and this is clearly a challenging intellectual task.

[pythbox]

Well, Nathaniel will be over here with his blush and his snuggle until she has figured it out.

[alicornucopia]

Eventually she settles on, "Your face is cute and I want to kiss it, can I?"

[pythbox]

Blush. Very blush.

"Um, okay," he says.

[alicornucopia]

Kisses! A swift rain of little affectionate kisses.

[pythbox]

Blushy blushy blush!

[alicornucopia]

See, the more he does that, the more she has to kiss him.

[pythbox]

He giggles a little, too.

[alicornucopia]

Awwww! Snuggles. Snuggles and little kisses all over his adorable face.

[pythbox]

Giggly blushy snuggles.

[alicornucopia]

Excellent. Renata is well pleased.

[pythbox]

Nathaniel proceeds with snuggles. Eventually, the Joker goes away. Nathaniel goes to bed, and invites Renata to snuggle him then too.

The next day, after breakfast and some more snuggles, he says, "I think I'm going to go visit Elspeth and the little Joker now. Do you want to come with me?"

[alicornucopia]

"Mm-hm!"

[pythbox]

"Okay."

Hug!

[Hi, Elspeth,] he says. [Can I come visit now and bring Renata?]

[her_imperial_radiance]

[Sure, now is fine.]

[pythbox]

Hug. Teleport!

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth is in a comfy chair in her quarters with Harley on her lap and a picture book in her hand; she appears to have just finished the story and is letting Harley behold the final illustrations. "Hello, Nathaniel. Hi, Renata. This is Harley."