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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)

Comments

[whatamithinking]

"Good. Because you are. I just--you casually waltz into my life and fix everything that was broken. Everything I had accepted was broken forever. And we weren't unhappy before you showed up, but--the English language does not contain a strong enough word for thank you."

[iamnotpolaris]

Emily squeezes her sister's shoulder and smiles at the Bells.

[bellfounding]

"You're completely welcome. It's our job."

[autokinetic]

"Yeah, our pleasure. I'm getting the impression my relevant expertise isn't actually. I'm gonna go home and politick with the space colonists. See you guys at the next Bellparty maybe."

Aegis disappears.

[whatamithinking]

"So how do you guys fix worlds, generally?" Edie asks Pat. "I mean, I'm not thinking objectively, my brain is trying to tell me everything's already fixed, but I do actually know that my family is not the whole world."

[bellfounding]

"Well, you don't have your own Bell to live here and deal with this world full-time. Honestly most worlds that don't have Bells in them get left on a waiting list, so far, because Jane is our way around and she's broken a couple times - we just recently recovered from the most recent outage, my world was out for a particularly long time, when she goes down time stops syncing. The difference here is that most of those other worlds don't have anyone we're in contact with - like, Wellspring does, and it has a Matilda who basically does a Bell's job for her world, but most of the rest we just grabbed when we got Downside and they don't have anybody we know well enough to give magic powers. I'm not going to give you a complete set of magic powers here and now, Jane was lukewarm enough about giving you torching, but we will listen to you if you tell us things like 'hey, the world could totally roll along without anybody freaking out too badly if malaria stopped existing'. Can I make malaria stop existing or would something bad happen in the public consciousness? Malaria personally offends us."

[whatamithinking]

"Malaria can stop existing, as far as I know. Anyway, we've already got powers as good as magic. Not as good as your magic, but I think--I think we'll do okay.
Although, given that Emily and I promised to call Jane rather than doing something regrettable...you said you were tucking her somewhere out of the way in our world? Does the not-quite-telepathy magic you gave us have a range limit?"

[bellfounding]

"Brainphone has no range limit within a world. Will not work between sheaves. The question is if all the malarial parasites suddenly die, what will people think happened? Is it locally explicable."

[whatamithinking]

"I guess not. Pessimistically, I can imagine someone deciding a mutant did it and God invented mosquitos for some reason and therefore mutants are evil and should die. That probably won't actually happen, but...no one expected the Holocaust would happen either. So maybe not." sigh. "Do you have any indirect ways of doing it that we could claim to have scienced? We have science people here."

[bellfounding]

"Peace wiped it out by exterminating relevant mosquito species, Atlantis just had such a massive flood that all the continents where it was a going concern wound up uninhabited - Gift might have something."

[mind_game]

[Gift has something, but it's a vaccine. Distribution would be the problem.]

[bellfounding]

"And everybody else has done it openly or not had the problem in the first place."

[whatamithinking]

"Did I mention Papa has a ridiculously obscene amount of money? Vaccines aren't a perfect solution, but they're something."

[bellfounding]

"You still might have a distribution problem, making sure they get everywhere and that people want to receive them and so on."

[whatamithinking]

"Hence why they're not a perfect solution."

[bellfounding]

"Well, anyway, Jane can tell whoever would make use of the information how to make a malaria vaccine, and all the other vaccines she has on file, somebody can pretend they're just a vaccine genius."

[whatamithinking]

"Alright."
[The best person would probably be Henry McCoy,] she tells Jane. [He's down in the lab that the Milliways door overrode the door to. He's pretty much an everything genius. Everything sciency, anyway.]

[mind_game]

[I can also hear you if you talk aloud while somebody with one of my gems is around,] Jane remarks. [Will he be startled if I brainphone him?]

[whatamithinking]

"Probably. Hang on."
'Hank, in a minute someone is going to do a weird thing. Don't drop anything delicate, okay?
Oh, and, uh, if you see Papa walking, it's not Aunt Raven being a dick.
(summary of the past whatever amount of time)'

[maggie_of_the_owls]

'I see,' he replies after a stunned pause. 'I...won't drop anything, then.'

[whatamithinking]

"Okay, I warned him."

[mind_game]

[Hello! In what format do you prefer to receive formulae for vaccines?]

[maggie_of_the_owls]

[Well, if you...}

[whatamithinking]

"So, is there anything else to be done here right now?"

[bellfounding]

"I can put down an earthquake and volcano suppression, unless your weather mutant handles those? Just to keep the really big ones under control. Statistical anomaly, but only statistical."