syntropic

[lifes_sake]

Home again. [Tilly! We're back! How long were we out?]

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[mind_game]

[Heyyyy I am so awake and functional lookit me. Also there is a Rainbow Matilda calling herself Agent Honey. She exists. This has been an announcement.]

[withmypowers]

Matilda giggles.

[Ooh, I should meet her. Are you up and running in Wellspring? Has Agent Honey already met that one?]

[mind_game]

[I am up in all of the places! Agent Honey has met Matilda and acquired Wellspring magic! Yep.]

[withmypowers]

[You're so cute,] giggles Matilda.

[mind_game]

[I am recovering from the Jane equivalent of a head injury. Also I am in a body now.]

[withmypowers]

[Congratulations, if those are in order. I'd like to meet Agent Honey if you don't mind.]

[mind_game]

[You want me to put you there or put her here or relay messages or what?]

[withmypowers]

[I'd rather she came here, but I can go there if that's her preference.]

[mind_game]

[Hey Agent Honey! Tilly wants you to visit Syntropy!]

[withmypowers]

[That sounds fine to me,] says Agent Honey. She transports herself to somewhere convenient for Jane to pick her up from.

[mind_game]

Yoink.

[lifes_sake]

"Hi, Agent Honey, nice to meet you."

[withmypowers]

"Nice to meet you too," says Agent Honey, smiling. "Will anyone relevant mind terribly if I ask for the Wellspring Matilda to be brought in too? Adularia," she taps her vaguely book-shaped moonstone pendant, "wants to talk to all of us."

"Ooh," says Tilly. "That sounds interesting."

[lifes_sake]

"I don't mind," shrugs Cam.

[mind_game]

[Matiiiiiilda. I am alive again. Also Agent Honey and Tilly invite you to Syntropy to talk to Adularia.]

[withmypowers]

[I'd be delighted! Congratulations on your aliveness,] says Matilda, and she appears in front of the Wellspring Janepoint.

[mind_game]

Yoink.

[withmypowers]

"Hi," says Tilly.

"Hi and hi," says Matilda. "And hi."

"So the thing Adularia was thinking," says Agent Honey, "is that she might like to partner with you both. If she can successfully split herself into three Devices linked by ansible connections."

"Ooh," say the other two Matildas, with perfect simultaneity.

[lifes_sake]

Cam laughs when the Matildas speak in sync.

[withmypowers]

"I thought you might say that," says Agent Honey.

"Can we do it, though?" says Tilly.

"We can try," says Matilda. "Whose magic?"

"Wish is cleanest," says Tilly. "Let's try that first. And as the local expert—"

She makes an over-to-you gesture to Agent Honey, who smiles.

"Try both-at-once first, then one at a time, going up sizes from pentagon," Tilly advises. "And definitely include the ansible installation."

A moonstone pendant appears around Tilly's neck, then around Matilda's.

"Two hexes," Agent Honey reports.

"Four," says Tilly, "now that I've maged us."

The Matildas share a grin.

[lifes_sake]

"Congratulations."

[withmypowers]

"We like magic," says Matilda, grinning.

"We like it a lot," says Tilly.

"And now we've all traded kinds," says Agent Honey.

"Except mine, which doesn't trade as usefully," says Tilly. "But I might as well hand it over anyway."

"The universal language? Limited applicability, especially now that we all have Devices," says Agent Honey. "But go for it."

Tilly nods.

[lifes_sake]

"Maybe eventually I'll figure out what's up with the Powers and Ordeals and fix it up a bit, and then it'll be a worthwhile project to figure out how to wizard adults. There was a person in Materia who went in for deicide, it could be highly entertaining to throw her at Iggy," muses Cam, "if the world weren't a biohazard."

[mind_game]

"Biohazard? But anyway Aether's new aura fixes that," chirps Jane. "Near her, anyway."

[withmypowers]

"Refresh my memory - Iggy?" says Agent Honey.