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]

He could. It's not like he cares intensely about the smooth running of Aurum. But neither does he care intensely about Addy's wheedling.

[Baby, you up to much?] he brainphones to Cam.

[lifes_sake]

[Trading histories with Golden, nothing uninterruptible, why?]

[pythbox]

[Addy wants the Speech and she's trying to wheedle it out of me, do you care?]

[lifes_sake]

[Uh, probably safer not to, if Addy gets out of control she starts marauding for magic, at least if she doesn't know the Speech she can't get far if she ever manages to get made into a wizard.]

[pythbox]

['Kay.]

"Cam says nope," he reports, "you're outta luck."

[her_imperial_radiance]

[Aww, but it's only a language, what's the harm?] wheedles Addy.

[pythbox]

He snorts. "Can I have my hand back?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

She opens her mouth to let it go. "Pleeeease?"

[pythbox]

Jellybean giggles, rubbing his hand, which is already back to its regular shape.

"You're cute, but no."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Nobody wants me to have any fun," huffs Addy.

[pythbox]

"Live with it," Jellybean advises.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Harrumph. Well, tell me more about it, anyway, even if I can't have it."

[pythbox]

"It's a universal language," he says, "I mean literally, our universe is written in it. Names are weird in it unless you borrow them from your native language; mine's—" he says the word. Self-Defining. "But most people's are at least twenty times that long."

[taste_tester]

"I want to know my name," says Addy, bouncing on her toes.

[pythbox]

He rolls his eyes. "Get somebody who's less easily bored than me to figure it out. Try Cam, maybe."

[taste_tester]

"Aww, I bet he won't help," sighs Addy.

[pythbox]

"Well, I hate figuring out names, so I'm not gonna help either."

[taste_tester]

"Maybe I should go to your world," she suggests.

[pythbox]

"...yeah, don't do that," Jellybean says consideringly.

[taste_tester]

"Why not?"

[pythbox]

"'Cause I bet you'd end up falling in with Iggy and then I'd have to kill you or something and I don't really wanna bother," he suggests.

[taste_tester]

"Iggy? Who's Iggy?"

[pythbox]

"He's kind of a problem. His main deal is lying to people and offering them power so they'll do stuff for him and then killing them when he gets bored."

[taste_tester]

"If somebody killed me I'd turn up Downside, but come to think of it I'm not sure if Bella would bother to get me out at this point," muses Addy. "But if he's only lying about the power that'd be no fun, would it? I'd never get to play with anything he promised. So that's not a concern, is it?"

[pythbox]

"He's a really good liar," says Jellybean.