aurum tourism

[temporal_affairs]

There is a Janepoint in each of the capitals, including this one in Forks. It has its own building, and in it two vampires are waiting - Nathan, because his mate is incoming, and Alice, because she's supposed to check if the guests are going to need to avoid meeting anybody for matey reasons (Jellybean, and Cam, are both coming and both in potential danger of being mated to).

But she can't see anything till they show up.

Cam arrives first, despite having been a later addition to the expedition - no one was distracting him with last-minute goodbye makeouts - and she clears him and he waits around for Jellybean.

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[pythbox]

Jellybean arrives, with his shiny new aura playing softly upbeat piano music and informing everyone present that he is really, really cheerful right now.

Also, he smells like delicious candy.

[manofmyword]

(The Joker also arrives, with an arm wrapped around Jellybean's shoulders and his nose pressed into Jellybean's sugary-smelling hair. Mmm.)

[temporal_affairs]

The Joker may be slightly injured in the ensuing scuffle.

The aura doesn't appear to care about Nathan's air filter.

Nathan is making confused noises, and he's trying to bite Jellybean's neck open, and it's not working very well.

"Your aura, withdraw your aura," exclaims Alice, scrunching her eyes shut.

[pythbox]

...Jellybean giggles.

And after a few more seconds, he withdraws his aura.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan lurches away from him.

"That was by far the weirdest sensory experience I've ever had," he says. "Sorry about that."

"You could get thirstlessness like I did," Alice says. "It's more comfortable anyway."

"No thanks," says Nathan. "I don't think many people are going to show up all synaesthetic sugar that bypasses my air filter, and sometimes I want to be a little thirsty. Right, babe?" He winks at the Joker.

[lifes_sake]

"Well," says Cam. "That's an interesting... welcome... we got. I guess now I know what your aura does, huh, Jellybean."

[manofmyword]

The Joker beams at Nathan and hugs him.

[pythbox]

"Aura of candy," Jellybean says cheerfully. "It makes me the tastiest Joker in the deck. Knew that already, I just didn't know it worked on vampires." To Nathan, he adds, "If you wanna chew on me for real sometime, I'm game."

[temporal_affairs]

"Very tempting," says Nathan, hugging the Joker back. "If only to figure out what that would taste like. You might want to show Addy - or rather, Addy will want to see - she already gets a synaesthesia-of-taste thing and she'll nerd out about the magic involved."

"I don't see anybody mating to you, anyway, Jellybean," says Alice. "So you and Cam are both clear to move freely around Aurum with standard cautions about not revealing magic to random humans and so on."

[lifes_sake]

"Cool. I'm gonna go chat with Golden and see if her husband can in fact behold me without being as disturbed as he is by girl Bells," Cam says, and he teleports away.

[pythbox]

"Sure, I'll show Addy," says Jellybean with a shrug. "You wanna get your nibbles first?"

[temporal_affairs]

"Well," says Alice, "I'm leaving." And she does.

"I assume you can actually let me bite you?" Nathan asks. "Trying and failing while desperately wanting to, not my idea of a great time."

[pythbox]

Jellybean grins. "Yeah, just a sec," he says, "I should switch my wards over anyway."

He stands there looking thoughtful for a moment.

"Okay, that'll do it. You ready?"

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan spreads his arms in a display of readiness. "Rar."

[pythbox]

Grinning, Jellybean flares his aura.

He is suddenly the most delicious thing on Earth, sugary sweet and flavoured with a cascade of nuts and fruits and chocolate and cream.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan is in no condition to appreciate the fine details of his bouquet. He's just biting and growling and swallowing.

[pythbox]

He also stacked up his regeneration like the Joker's, so his supply of candy-flavoured blood is endless.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan eventually stops, but it takes even longer than it does when the Joker singers himself; the aura isn't advertising through standard channels and it takes longer for stomach discomfort to override intense want.

He takes a step back, inhaling deeply. "Wow."

[pythbox]

"Fun?" he inquires, closing down the aura again and rubbing at the already-healed wounds on his neck.

[temporal_affairs]

"Tasty," Nathan says. "Intensely drinkable. Massive sensory head trip. Did the vampire one of you guys get his teeth into you?"

[pythbox]

"Nah, he was being squishy for a bit," Jellybean explains. "Liked the way I tasted human-style just fine, though."

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan laughs. "Well. Welcome to Aurum."

[pythbox]

Jellybean laughs. "I'm definitely feeling the love! Hey, you think there'll be anybody else who'll want a bite?"

[temporal_affairs]

"Addy almost certainly. Let's see, who else... not the Imperial Family, I don't think, except maybe Emmett or Jasper, but plenty of the staff'd probably take you up on it."

[pythbox]

"It's pretty fun being a chew toy," he says cheerfully. "I wanna do some more of it."