if i were yours

[floofcoaster]

Behold the wolf in his unnatural habitat, eating the foods of his people in traditional quantities, his typical companion away in the distant land of The Bathroom.

That is to say, Zeus is in Milliways with one and a half heavily topped pizzas, waiting for Harley and Andrea to come back.

Comments

[instar]

"The worst thing."

[thaumobabble]

"That's n- one of us grew up on a planet where literally every human being was brainwashed on a daily basis to adore the brainwasher and the monarch who employed her. She's not shellshocked. Butterfly, what's...?"

[instar]

"Why didn't the brainwasher get her?"

[thaumobabble]

"Except her, yes, I neglected to say; some of us have a template immunity to mental magic - what happened to you?"

[instar]

"Nothing yet. Nothing yet. To me."

[thaumobabble]

Glass takes a moment to process the implications of this.

"Okay - time dilation is already in place, so, good, everything will be okay, Butterfly, do you want to come camp out in the Belltower and learn about magic and relax and so on, the world will wait, it's waiting very patiently, you can come meet all your alts and make plans and we can grab anybody you want to have visiting and explain it to them too, usually we have a party when we find a new one but you don't seem to be in the mood - it'll be okay, there's no native magic here, we will handle it all for you if you need us to, okay?"

[aeskhyne]

[instar]

"Do I have to actually do anything or can you just take me whenever you want and you're being polite?"

[thaumobabble]

"...Second thing. If you would rather just sit there silently rather than risk inviting a metaphorical vampire into your metaphorical house I'll whisk you away in, say, five minutes."

[aeskhyne]

"And hey," says Trouble, "whatever else is going on, I still have arbitrary magic."

[instar]

[thaumobabble]

"Whoa. I've never gotten to watch that happen in real time before," Glass says, blinking at Trouble.

[aeskhyne]

"Watch what?"

The transition is nearly done; he has skipped straight past the wandering phase and gone into - something else, something that comes between 'wandering' and 'retiree'.

[thaumobabble]

"You just changed phases. Sublimated them, practically, you skipped one."

[aeskhyne]

"Oh, is that what that was. Huh."

[thaumobabble]

"Yep. What's it like on the inside?"

[aeskhyne]

"Like... mm," he says, considering. "Deciding that if Bella's too freaked out to save the world, I'll do it."

[thaumobabble]

"Huh."

Glass doesn't comment on whether that seems likely to her.

[instar]

"Assuming I'm not being had," says Butterfly, "I think I'll be okay to do it after a few days, tops, to decompress." Wryly, "It's sort of my specialty."

[aeskhyne]

Trouble shrugs.

"I'm pretty sure we're not being had."

[instar]

"That would sure be nice."

[aeskhyne]

"Yep."

Trouble hugs his lapful of Harley.

[thaumobabble]

"A few days to decompress is easy," Glass says. "I wonder who else you have besides a Joker. I can run a sweep and see."

[instar]

"I'd - rather find that out myself and do it myself, I think."

[thaumobabble]

"Sure."