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]

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."

[inhispockets]

"Huh," he says.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Typety typety.

[inhispockets]

He sits there for a little while longer.

Then he pursues strategies for getting down off the roof.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Do you want help getting down?" she asks.

[inhispockets]

"Nah," he says.

After some time spent figuring, he climbs down successfully.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Okay then.

[inhispockets]

Once inside, he makes himself some more food and goes back to his room with it.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth jumps down off the roof and lands on her feet, after a while, and puts her tablet on her pillow while she takes a break (she brushes out her hair by hand, and braids it with a triangle, then sits with her eyes closed and her hands clasped to sort through the many thousands of years of unprocessed memories she still holds).

[inhispockets]

Felicity does not emerge from his room again that day.

He grabs breakfast early the next morning, and then spends almost the whole day wandering around the island.