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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[luminous_regnant]

This one is not terraformed. It's just a rock.

[pythbox]

But it fulfills the criterion of 'away', so he'll take it.

He wonders what Nathan and the Joker are up to. Probably sex. [Hey, are you guys fucking?]

[manofmyword]

[Yep,] the Joker says cheerfully. [Why, did you wanna watch?]

[pythbox]

[I'll try Cam first,] he laughs.

[Hey, whatcha up to?]

[lifes_sake]

[Still talking to Golden. You can come talk to us too if you want.]

[pythbox]

[Sure.]

Port!

[lifes_sake]

Cam and Golden are the only ones having much of a conversation, but Edward is there, too, and he indeed does not seem to find Cam particularly unsettling.

"Hey, Jellybean," says Cam, putting an arm around Jellybean's waist and tugging him over. "I don't think you actually met Golden, I think you were off doing your own thing by the time she showed up to have a look at me. This is her. Golden, this is my Jellybean."

[luminous_regnant]

"A pleasure," says Golden, and Edward, behind her, nods once with a neutral expression on his face.

[pythbox]

Jellybean wraps his arms around Cam's waist and leans on him comfortably, making sure to keep his aura closed to prevent imperial incidents.

"Hi," he says. "Whatserface is kinda creepy. And really pushy."

[luminous_regnant]

"Addy? Yes. Both of those things. Also completely amoral and only barely kept under control by the fact that she can get access to more interesting magic by keeping me happy than otherwise, so thank you for not attempting to grant her access to any of yours, I would have had to have words with you or asked Elspeth to do so."

[pythbox]

Jellybean makes a face.

[luminous_regnant]

"I do hope you can forgive me for wanting to keep the supply of power to the wildcard who once opted to have my daughter tortured under strict control," says Golden dryly.

[pythbox]

He teleports back to that asteroid.

[lifes_sake]

[So I guess that's a no?] Cam asks weakly.

[pythbox]

[No,] says Jellybean, [it's a bunch of feelings I don't wanna have in front of a telepath, I'm sorry about her daughter, I get it about her daughter, I'm kind of mad that she was talking like she expected that to be incomprehensible to me.]

[lifes_sake]

[Yeah, I get it about Edward, I would've left long ago if he could read me but he can't. You could ward up against that too. Unless you want me to read your mind. And even then the standard option comes with a workaround for wards.]

[pythbox]

[I wouldn't mind it from you,] he says fondly. [You I like. Edward I don't know from a hole in the ground.]

[lifes_sake]

[As far as I can tell, he's Golden's extremely beloved radio.]

[pythbox]

Jellybean laughs.

[lifes_sake]

[But like, absurdly beloved, she lets him read her mind sometimes and that's a really big deal for Bells. So there's that.]

[pythbox]

[Does anybody seem to care that I fucked off?] he asks idly.

[lifes_sake]

[No, not really. All the Bells seem to have a sort of polite incomprehension about what any of us see in templates that don't match our own significant others, except maybe Amariah, so she's probably just filing this under "apparently that's something that Bells with Jokers get used to". If Edward has any reaction to anything that isn't whispering in Golden's ear I haven't seen it.]

[pythbox]

[Should I bother talking to her about why I left, or does she probably not care about that either?]

[lifes_sake]

[She hasn't asked me to explain it, so either she thinks it was reasonless and there is no answer to the question, or she doesn't care. I'm sorta curious about how you'd put it.]

[pythbox]

Jellybean is quiet for a few seconds.

Then he says, [...I kind of feel like I've been set up here? I mean. Nobody warned me ahead of time that I'm not supposed to give magic to Addy. I figured it out on my own 'cause she talks like she's on a leash and she's pretty overtly creepy, but if she'd acted like it'd be fine for me to give her the Speech, I would've had no reason not to think so. And I might've just done it. And it makes me fucking itch to have Golden come along after the fact and say 'by the way, if you'd done this thing I never asked you not to do, I would've been mad', especially because when she finally got around to coughing up a reason it was a really good reason and the way she said it made it seem like she expected me not to care. Maybe I'm wrong about that part, I dunno. But the whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.]