lifes_sake | syntropic

Cam reaches into his backpack and takes out Grace. "This is mine." She turns into a hawk, on his shoulder, in a cascade of gold, and starts preening Cam's hair. "She's not very talkative with people other than me though."

"Neither is Adularia," say all three Matildas in chorus.

"Have you," Cam says, "become a hive mind?"

"We have not!" says Matilda.

"We're just extremely similar," says Tilly.

"And sometimes the thing to say is just that obvious," says Agent Honey.

"Well, Grace is a daemon, like Pathalan or Neptune, although they're both chattier - I think the part where she was a notebook who could not in fact talk to anyone other than me affected Grace some." He pets her feathers.

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"Adularia just doesn't like talking to anyone other than - us," says Agent Honey. "And occasionally another Device."

"Apparently most daemons that aren't chatty with people will talk to other daemons, but Grace doesn't even like to do that - I suppose she might if I desperately needed to talk to a daemon who wouldn't talk directly to me, if I was hanging out on Alethia."

Grace turns back into a notebook; he tucks her into his backpack again.

The Adularias shimmer.

"It's not impossible," says a new soft female voice that presumably belongs to them. "I just don't prefer it."

"Understood. No need to put yourself out on my account," says Cam. "It is, however, nice to meet you; welcome to Syntropy, and I appreciate the incidental triple- backup syncing."

The Matildas grin.

"You're welcome," says Adularia serenely.

"Or double in Wellspring's case, our new syncing solution is spread a little thin and only a majority of Belled worlds have instances," Cam allows. "How long has it been in Wellspring?"

"Not very long," says Matilda. "And the lack of contact doesn't affect me very much one way or the other. But it'll be nice to have my alts in reach."

Her Adularia shimmers.

"Expect so, yeah."

"And there's that other project," says Matilda.

"Other project?" says Tilly.

"The Sunshine worlds have a - corrupted version of the Wellspring magical system," says Matilda. "It should be possible to uncorrupt it somewhat, if we get enough high-entanglement magic users spreading positive patterns."

"Ooooh," says Tilly.

"That would be nice. Glass does not approve of those worlds at all. Although not as much as she does-not-approve of Materia, which has a whole separate issue."

"What is the issue with Materia?" asks Matilda.

"Anti-causality. Regularities of the place stop working if you look too hard or they feel like it."

"That sounds irritating," says Agent Honey.

"I wonder if we can do something about that," says Matilda.

"Are there plans to do something about that?" says Tilly.

[Aether's new aura will fix it within a limited radius,] reports Jane. [Systematic fixes aren't in the works as far as I know.]

"Well," says Matilda. "After the Sunshine project, maybe. Or let us know if the Bells get there first."

Her alts both nod.

"The Sunshine project might keep you occupied for a while if you're going to do them all. We might even find more, since they're so populous."

"That's all right. We have plenty of time," says Matilda.

"I approve of this attitude."

Tilly laughs and hugs him.

Hugs!

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