Isabella Mariel Swan ∀ &quot;Glass&quot;

Glass shivers once and turns her attention to the deck-in-general. She pauses her eyes over Jellybean and Micaiah again. [...You've got different... reasons on top of the commonality,] she observes slowly.

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pythbox

[Whatcha mean?] wonders Jellybean.

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[I think you got out of it just because you landed in a world where if you get magic it happens young, and then you got magic,] says Glass. [It's almost completely causal, not whatever I'm seeing - I mean, I can see the attractor, but I don't see signals about why it's not in operation on you. Micaiah's is being held off for higher-layer reasons.] She peers at him. [Which aren't here.]

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[Well, where are they, then?]

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[I don't know.] She turns around on the spot slowly, peering at the rest of the attendees of the party in case they're there.

[It's Angela. Something to do with her. But it's high-level, it's not something she did... Hey, Angela, over here.]

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Angela drifts over and puts her wing around her Micaiah. [Hmm?]

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Glass peers at the pair of them together, occasionally looking at the other Jokers for points of comparison.

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Micaiah snuggles contentedly into his angel's wing, flaring his aura (innocence innocence innocence) a little.

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[...I don't know your story and I'm sure I could put this better if I did, but what I see is a lot like - Shell Bell's special circumstances. Angela was a certain way, and you were supposed to meet and be together, and you needed to - suit her.]

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[...What did I miss?]

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...Micaiah hugs himself and leans on Angela and appears Generally Upset.

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Glass summarizes for Angela what she missed.

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[I - oh, love,] sighs Angela, hugging her Micaiah and peering into his thoughts to see what the matter is in more detail.

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Does that mean that if he had been she couldn't have loved him because that is terrible, that is the worst thing, why is that true.

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[Oh, love. I don't know. I don't know what she's seeing.]

And she summarizes for Glass the story of how they met.

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[I think,] Glass says, picking her words carefully, after she's heard this story, [that something about - the ways it would've changed you, the person it would've made you - would have - thrown off the way Angela's template attractors are trying to interact with stuff about your world. I'm not sure if you couldn't have wound up together. It could have affected something else. But I don't think it would've been as easy for you to be together, if you'd fallen into the attractor.]

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her_imperial_radiance

[Imagine,] says Elspeth softly, [if instead of you, she'd met another Joker under the exact same circumstances. How do you imagine that would've gone?]

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Micaiah thinks about the other Jokers.

Then he snuggles into Angela's wing and cries.

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pythbox

"Sad," Harley Andrea observes.

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her_imperial_radiance

"Glass is telling us about some grownup things," Elspeth murmurs to Harley, petting his hair. "It won't help you to hear them right now."

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pythbox

He yawns agreeably.

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[I was so young then, so sheltered,] Angela says. [It was a challenge to adjust even to you. I was always on the - naiver end of the Bell spectrum, especially back when I saw Jovah's hand on everything.] She swallows. [If you had been any farther away from - me, my understanding of the world - then I might have found the glow in our Kisses as incomprehensible as I later found Ithiel's deformities, I might have come to my crisis of faith earlier, and I don't know what I would have done about you, then, if I hadn't loved you as quickly as I did and then I didn't believe that we were divinely intended.]

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