does not anymore work

[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

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Erik makes a slight face when she mentions WWII.
"Not having hurricanes would be ideal, yes," Charles says. "We're already mostly able to prevent those--one of our students at the moment has weather powers--but we don't catch everything."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I don't suppose 'person who it would be completely unproblematic to make immortal' is something you could search for with your nigh-omnipotent magic powers."

[thaumobabble]

"Not readily. I could shorten the search with autohandling of a few parameters, but basically no, at least not without resorting to unethical mind magic. If anyone wants to volunteer for mind magic, Jane can accept a complete memory dump and make a recommendation based on that."

[whatamithinking]

"Under the circumstances, I'm probably not the best candidate anyway, but if it might help Jane can have a copy of my memories."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Me too, I guess."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Neither of the adults volunteer.

[thaumobabble]

"This won't feel like anything," says Glass. She brandishes her jewelry at them.

Jane comments, presumably.

"How do you feel about calling in the cavalry via Jane rather than relying on your mutations in emergencies?" she inquires.

[whatamithinking]

"If the cavalry will reliably show up, then in most cases yes? I mean, it depends on the emergency? 'Someone is trying to destroy the world and it's kill them or let them' yes, 'my sister is having an emotional breakdown and needs cuddles both literal and telepathic' no."

[iamnotpolaris]

"If it's the kind of emergency where use of powers results in an actually satisfactory solution, like 'that kid fell out the window but I can haul him back up by the zippers on his clothes' I'm not likely to bother, but I'm guessing that's not the kind of emergency you meant."

[thaumobabble]

"Jane thinks that under normal circumstances you being immortal is fine but suspects you might have unfortunate fracture points under particularly earthshaking circumstances. The correct response to earthshaking circumstances, now that we have met, is not 'try to make the earth stop shaking with telepathy and magnetism', but 'summon a Bell or someone else with similar wherewithal to fix it by magic'. Jane herself is not totally reliable, or at least hasn't been in the past - we've patched the known failure mode - but that's not a big enough risk to actually insist that you go on being mortal."

[whatamithinking]

"Understood. If a situation gets bad enough that I'm tempted to do anything I'd regret under normal circumstances, call Jane instead."

[thaumobabble]

"If that's understood I can torchable the both of you right now."

[whatamithinking]

"Alright."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Absolutely understood."

[thaumobabble]

"This, also, will not feel like anything, which I imagine is not the most reassuring feature for an immortality power to have, but," she points at Emily, then Edie, "you're all set. This doesn't make you invulnerable, so if you do something dramatic like fling yourself into the sun you will just keep torching, get Jane to send help."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Noted. Not that I prefer to get into any situations that are lethal at all..."

[whatamithinking]

"But thank you."

[thaumobabble]

"You're welcome. And with that, this is -"

[bellfounding]

"Hi, I'm Pattern."

[autokinetic]

"Aegis."

These people are all three different ages, albeit with the same face. Aegis is wearing a space-military uniform proclaiming her a decorated admiral; Pattern is in embroidered jeans and a nice purple t-shirt and a halo-crown that matches the colors.

"I think we're set for Glass-specific needs," Aegis adds to Glass.

[thaumobabble]

"I'll get out of your way, then."

Glass vanishes.

[autokinetic]

"So this is like Peace: Retro Edition, huh? I'm gonna check for buggers real quick stealth-like," says Aegis, and she disappears again.

Pattern is blank-minded like Glass or Pen; Aegis is shielded as though she's a telepath herself who objected to the concept of telepathy existing in the first place.

[whatamithinking]

"Oh, that's interesting. I'm not getting a thing about what's actually going on in your minds from any of you, but you're very definitely the same person. Except one of you is a telepath."

[bellfounding]

"I'm kind of surprised you're getting that much. But yeah, Aegis is me if I was born a mutant in 2155 and grew up in orbital military school, Glass is me if I was from dragons-witches-etcetera world and gay, etcetera. I think Aegis would take exception to being called a telepath."

[whatamithinking]

"I'm...sorry? Her mind feels like my father's when he doesn't want to be read, and what he's shown me of what my mind feels like when I don't want to be read."