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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[lifes_sake]

[There's getting to be a whole lot of stuff to know when people get pealed,] Cam observes. [She might've figured someone else told you. And figured that Edward would notice if it turned out someone hadn't and you were going to Speechify Addy and she'd be able to interrupt. She wasn't trying to set you up, though. More likely she expected Sue linked you and gave you the complete rundown of everything at some point. At the first Bell party Addy had to go around wearing a sign after the other Matilda touched her - it didn't work but it was close - so it's something Sue would know.]

Pause.

[But she might also have thought that you wouldn't care, because she doesn't know you individually, just the template, and not too closely, and Jokes doesn't seem to lose any sleep over having personally done a lot of screwed-up crap, and she can work with him but she can also work with Addy, so.]

[pythbox]

He sighs.

[And 'have words with you' is something my parents used to say. I'm trying not to get too fucked up over that, but... I'm getting pretty fucked up over that.]

[lifes_sake]

[That, she definitely didn't know. You want me to tell her? Or just end the conversation and come hug you?]

[pythbox]

[You can tell her if you want,] he says. [And you should definitely come hug me.]

He establishes gravity, atmosphere, and a big pile of cuddly blankets.

[lifes_sake]

A few seconds later Cam joins him and pulls him into a hug. "She's going to have Elspeth coordinate with everybody to write 'before you visit this world, here's what you should know' pamphlets, Aurum first, Alethia next because of the spontaneous daemon thing, and so on. And she's not going to let Addy leave Aurum without an escort anymore."

[pythbox]

Jellybean snuggles up.

"I love you," he says contentedly.

[lifes_sake]

Cam kisses his cheek.

[pythbox]

He closes his eyes and smiles, nestling closer.