several kinds

[thaumobabble]

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

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

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[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.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth doesn't think - in spite of the fact that most people feel like they've known her for a long time after only a little - that her presence would be a comfort right now.

She doesn't go into the room.

[inhispockets]

In the morning, he stays in the room a long time, curled up with his poof and his computer. He emerges in search of food around lunchtime.

[her_imperial_radiance]

The kitchen is full of ingredients, and Elspeth is eating grapes and tapping away at her tablet. "If there's some sort of food you'd like around that isn't here let me know," she says.

[inhispockets]

"Mnh," says Felicity. He stares meditatively through the fridge door, inventories all the cupboards (again), and then makes himself a sandwich and disappears back into his room.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth does nothing to interfere.

[inhispockets]

He appears again a few hours later, dressed in clothes from his closet instead of the pajamas, and silently begins making spaghetti.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"If you're planning to let Jacob have any, you'll want to make about four times as much for him as you would for a human," says Elspeth. Jake isn't in the house at this time. "He can fend for himself if you weren't intending on sharing, though."

[inhispockets]

Felicity glances at her.

"Okay," he says, and goes back to what he was doing.

He does not make a fourfold portion.

[her_imperial_radiance]

When Jake comes home for dinner, either Elspeth tells him privately the spaghetti's not for him or he figures it out, because he fixes himself a plate of sandwiches and eats them between items of pack gossip that he catches Elspeth up on. Apparently she owes Kim a visit and Alice found an imprint for Sawyer who he'll meet in two weeks and Pamela's thinking of moving to Becky's pack and teaching third grade there.

[inhispockets]

When the spaghetti is finished, Felicity eats it, leaves the dishes scattered haphazardly, and takes his poof for a wander around the island.

[her_imperial_radiance]

When he comes back, the kitchen is clean, and Elspeth is sitting on the roof to do her work for no obvious reason, and Jake has fallen asleep again.

[inhispockets]

Elspeth is sitting on the roof; therefore it is possible to get to the roof. But Felicity can't see how. Maybe she used magic.

He puts his poof back in his room next to its fountain and circles the house, looking for the best place to climb.

[her_imperial_radiance]

There is, in fact, a way to climb up the back between the edges of the window and the lip of the roof, if you're very nimble or very determined.

[inhispockets]

Felicity manages an adequate combination of the two.

[her_imperial_radiance]

And then he is on the roof.

"Hi there," says Elspeth, looking up from her tablet.

[inhispockets]

"Hi."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I like the view up here," she comments.

[inhispockets]

He looks around.

"It's nice."

[her_imperial_radiance]

And until he asks her something else, she will remain quiet and talk to Pattern's PR people about rolling out the interworld ansible service.

[inhispockets]

He finds himself a reasonably comfortable seat, and sits quietly for a few minutes, and then says:

"Whatcha doing?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I'm talking to the people who do the nearest equivalent of my job in Origin. We're talking about how to reveal other worlds and the upcoming general interworld ansible services to the populations of Aurum and Origin. They'll be able to talk to each other soon enough, so we need to match reasonably well."