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[campanas]

Here, in a place where she is quite an unexpected sight, is:

an eight year old girl with brown-flecked white wings, looking dismayed and lost.

with Prime (Aestrix)

with Edie and Emily (Maggie)

with Gloria (Maggie)

with Gren (Rockeye)

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[autokinetic]

"No buggers," says Aegis, reappearing, "anywhere, lucky you."

[iamnotpolaris]

"What are buggers and why are we lucky not to have them?"

[autokinetic]

"They're aliens and there was a big war with 'em in Peace. Won it, they surrendered, but it was a big hassle. We need to name this world. Could do theme names for places with mutants, like the Sunshine worldfamily? Calm? Quiet? Tranquility? Man, we need better procedures for unBelled worlds."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

The adults exchange a look which is presumably opaque to outsiders.

[whatamithinking]

"My parents find this ironic, for reasons which I would describe as injokey if they found it funny instead.
...Speaking of the dangers of properly immortal people! There is one dead person from our world who really really should not be resurrected uncarefully."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Erik tenses, his fingers curling into white-knuckled fists.

[bellfounding]

"What, just one?"

[whatamithinking]

"One in particular. At least one. This one person who almost managed to cause nuclear war. And also is the guy who murdered my grandparents. In Auschwitz. Because he was a literal Nazi doctor. And had a mutation that let him absorb and store any kind of energy, and then release it later to devastating effect. If I were you, I wouldn't do magic to any of him you find, because I wouldn't put it past him to store that somehow."

[bellfounding]

"Okay, Jane, find him, show him to Glass, scan the worlds," says Pattern, waving a hand, "in case there are more or he's related to Addy or something, but, like, don't worry, we are not in the business of resurrecting Nazis as a general rule."

[autokinetic]

"Has he got a name?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Sebastian Shaw," says Erik, relaxing at Pattern's words. "Or Klaus Schmidt. Or something else entirely, it's possible both were aliases."

[autokinetic]

"Jane says we don't have any of those in the other contacted worlds, so there's that."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Good."

[whatamithinking]

"Did you check Downside? You said Peace was like this, but two hundred years in the future and with aliens..."

[autokinetic]

"Exact details differ. I mean, you don't have the aliens, why should we have the exact same Nazis? We did have Nazis, but there's only one of the guy you mentioned Downside and he's from here."

[whatamithinking]

"Just checking. ...Come to think of it, are there any of us in Downside from Peace?"

[autokinetic]

"Jane says no. ...Apparently according to Pen you're not a fan of the brainphone or Jane would talk directly to you."

[whatamithinking]

"It was a surprise. I don't dislike it, but...the metaphor I used was, imagine someone talking to you, but instead of hearing it you felt it, only backwards? Not inherently bad, but extremely startling when you're not expecting it."

[mind_game]

[Surprise.]

[whatamithinking]

[Hello! So you're this Jane I've heard so much about.]

[mind_game]

[That's me. Anyway, found your Nazi, flagged him do-not-wake, have not found any of the four of you Downside or anywhere else I've got nodes. Congratulations, you're new.]

[whatamithinking]

[I feel so special. Um, do you need my grandparents' names?]

[mind_game]

[I already stared into your soul, remember? I know what you know.]

[whatamithinking]

[Oh, right. Well, that puts you in a club of two.]

[mind_game]

[Anyway. Mother dear, am I putting all four-and-a-step grandparents here or a selection or them and also the entire 1900 St Louis Cardinals or what?]