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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[inhispockets]

"I will," he says, hugging it.

[pythbox]

Elsewhere, something occurs to the Jokers:

"Can I be there when Glass talks to Golden?" says Harley.

[mind_game]

Jane confers with Glass. "Sure," she says.

[pythbox]

"Okay," says Harley. "Is she there already, or going soon, or are they still in the Gentle Cave...?"

[mind_game]

"She just gave Felicity his poof fountain and is currently waiting in the active capital for Golden to get out of a meeting. Golden's not going to be at the entire meeting like Elspeth is, just the overview, so she'll be done in a couple minutes."

[pythbox]

"Okay," says Harley.

He freecasts to Glass.

[thaumobabble]

"Hi," says Glass. "What are you thinking you'll add to the - I mean, I'm totally on board with having you there, but what wasn't covered when I was asking for advice?"

[pythbox]

"I don't know," says Harley. "But if I'm there, then if something comes up..." He shrugs.

[thaumobabble]

"Okay. So, Felicity has a poof and a fountain now. It's sort of rose-pink."

[pythbox]

He smiles. "Aww."

[thaumobabble]

"Wanted to know if they bit."

[pythbox]

Harley smiles again, wryly. "Yeah. I'm not surprised."

[thaumobabble]

"But he seemed to believe me that they don't, anyway."

[pythbox]

"That's good."

[thaumobabble]

"Yeah. I mean, where would a poof even keep teeth? Did you ever name yours?"

[pythbox]

He laughs and shakes his head. "Nah."

[luminous_regnant]

Golden emerges from the meeting room. "Hi, Glass, Harley. What did you want to talk about?"

[thaumobabble]

"It looks like the twelve-year-old Joker that Jane found is going to be living with Elspeth," says Glass, "but, since he's twelve and not a baby, he's probably going to be harder to deal with than Harley was."

[pythbox]

(Harley grins wryly.)

[luminous_regnant]

Golden looks at Glass.

"You think I'm going to upset him somehow," she guesses.

[thaumobabble]

"It's possible," says Glass. "The possibility that you shouldn't interact with him at all was floated."

[pythbox]

Harley... decides not to say anything.

[thaumobabble]

"He's twelve. He had enough of a dose of Terrible Childhood that the minimum-suffering attractor is all done pulling on him. And Corona's concerned that - Corona's particularly relevant here, he's metacausally clustered closer to Felicity than the others - that he'll be able to tell if there's any hint of 'smug' going on, on your end, when you evaluate how he deals with having recently been traumatized. How he deals with it is probably going to boil down to 'not well'."

[luminous_regnant]

"I am aware that most people do not cope as well as me with devastatingly unpleasant events."

[thaumobabble]

"Yeah, that's not quite the - not quite it. Alice says," Glass adds, "that the state Felicity is in right now, where he's sort of background terrified of everything, is comparable to turning."