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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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[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."

[bellfounding]

"That's all she does; she has no active abilities. Everybody else makes do with wished wards."

[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.]