several kinds

[thaumobabble]

Glass appears in the Belltower, where the Jokers less Felicity are still assembled.

"There are," she announces, "kinds of you."

Comments

[inhispockets]

"Uh-huh," says Felicity. "So where's Harley's coin colour come from?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"A lot of the Jokers do rainbowy coins, actually. The eponymous Joker, the one who works for my mom, makes these -" She pulls out a clear triangle, also streaked. "It's not always clear why coin colors are what they are, though. Sometimes they're obvious." She tugs at her hair. Then she pulls out one of her mother's triangles, gold and glowy. "Bells' coins glow if they have native magic for defense against mental spying and tampering, in all different solid colors, and they're other, non-glowy patterns if they don't. Do you want to see what yours would be?"

[inhispockets]

"Sure," he says.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth puts away excess triangles and spends a square.

[inhispockets]

The illusory square that appears in front of Felicity is black - almost like Alice's colour-glimmering obsidian - but instead of those now-you-see-it-now-you-don't highlights, or Harley's more substantial but still wispy streaks, it has thick veins of red and blue and green and gold and violet and pink chasing each other across its surface.

"Pretty," he says admiringly.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"It is!"

[inhispockets]

He smiles.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Jacob finishes his entire pizza. Then he rummages in the freezer for ice cream.

Elspeth flops onto the sofa again.

[inhispockets]

Felicity scoops up his poof and wanders out of the house with it. He takes his supply of triangles.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Neither of the adults present follow him. Unrelatedly - really! - a giant brown wolf with a half-vampire on his back may be seen making a lazy circuit of the island while the sun sets.

[inhispockets]

...Yep. That sure is a wolf.

They're kind of cute together.

[her_imperial_radiance]

They're very cute. Elspeth waves at Felicity while they go by.

[inhispockets]

He waves back.

[her_imperial_radiance]

And on go the wolf and his imprint along the beach. Afterwards they go back into the house.

[inhispockets]

Felicity stays out for a while.

He creeps back in very very quietly, for a human.

[her_imperial_radiance]

She can totally hear him, but has no special reaction. Jake is napping in the bedroom Felicity didn't pick. Elspeth is up and on the couch; she isn't planning to sleep for a while with the Internet thing underway.

[inhispockets]

He goes straight to bed without looking for either of them.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Do you need a set of pajamas?" Elspeth calls when he heads into his bedroom.

[inhispockets]

He comes out and finds her.

"Uh, sure."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Any preferences?"

[inhispockets]

Shrug.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth shrugs too, and conjures him a light set of pajamas to match the warm climate, white with yellow edging like the bedroom he picked out. "Here you go. I'll come up with a few outfits to magic into your closet overnight, if you don't have any requests."

[inhispockets]

"Okay," he says, bundling up the pajamas and letting his poof tumble onto them so he can carry it all back into his room together.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth continues her work.

[inhispockets]

And Felicity sleeps. For a value of 'sleep' that includes rather a lot of quiet crying.