falling ill

[keep_busy]

A few months after the business with the chalice, Annie (with a gold engagement stud in one earlobe, now receiving mail at Aldaras's apartment, and thoroughly comfortable with Being Necklaced, to the point where she's helping mold the thing towards more exacting standards for real-world-practical as well as theoretical compatibility) is in bed with some unidentified sort of head cold or flu. Aldaras doesn't have it so far, so she is snuggled under the covers while he makes her spicy soup to help clear her sinuses and because she's having a little trouble with non-liquids. He's worried, she's mostly just groggy. Zzzz.

Comments

[dark_light]

"Uh, shit. Set up portal, turn her over to us, we will - do - something. Nothing's instantly coming to mind for me as a post-emptive measure but I could try general countercurses in case... Is it on you or something even more awkward?"

[darkest_evening]

"It's on me," clarifies Prime, neutrally.

He looks at Aldaras and Annie. "I need to put a portal to our hub-world somewhere. It doesn't have to be easily visible, and I can put it on something that can be moved."

[keep_busy]

"...Back of the hinged bookshelf?" suggests Annie. "There's a safe on the wall, for stashing the necklace when we're both asleep, but the bookshelf itself is blank."

[darkest_evening]

"Show me, please."

[touchedinthehead]

Aldaras does, looking just a bit overwhelmed.

[darkest_evening]

And: portal.

"You or Annie won't be able to pass through it until Revelation gives you fancy microchips. It's a safety concern. Spring? To Pantheon?"

[namesthesky]

Spring gets up - a careful observer may notice that she is doing this more with her flying necklace than with her legs - and goes to the portal and through.

[darkest_evening]

"We'll send someone back through the portal shortly. I just became rather busy."

And then he goes to Pantheon, too.

[dark_light]

"You're not contagious or anything?" Ice asks Spring.

[namesthesky]

"I don't think so. She didn't say."

[dark_light]

Ice sticks her head through the portal. "Hey, is she contagious or anything?"

[keep_busy]

"No. You have to actually touch the necklace."

[dark_light]

"Okay." Ice retreats back to the Belfry. "Let's go put you in your house and get you some paper, how about."

[namesthesky]

"Okay."

Spring lets Ice usher her away.

[darkest_evening]

"Revelation, I think they need microchips. Probably also explanations."

[ask_nicely]

"Yeah. Let's - do that."

[from_scratch]

"Coming right up. Is there an Adarin or just a Bell?"

[darkest_evening]

"She's engaged to an Adarin - he looks different, but I asked him about the relevant traits and he apparently fit them. But I didn't exactly have much time for conversation."

[from_scratch]

"Right. Here goes."

Through steps Revelation.

"Hello, I'm another Bell - most of us look like you, you've seen an unrepresentative sample," he tells Annie. "Please put the necklace away, it is making me extremely nervous."

[keep_busy]

"I wouldn't - okay," says Annie, and she unclasps it and puts it in its box. "There. I'm really sorry. I was super sick."

[from_scratch]

"We'll - figure something out. It's not the end of the world. At least it's Prime she's stuck on and not, like, one of the deities or Katydid's cat."

[touchedinthehead]

"One of the deities? Katydid's cat? That could. That could happen?"

[from_scratch]

"Well, I don't know how your scary necklace works, but there exist deities - Spring is an acolyte of one of them, is how she does the healing - and Katydid's cat is her familiar and a person and stuff."

[touchedinthehead]

"... Okay. That. Makes sense. Is there a brochure on all of the alts?"

[from_scratch]

"Yeah, we took care of that after last time. What format do you want it in?"