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Isabella Amariah ⍋ "Amariah" ([personal profile] dark_light) wrote2013-05-18 11:28 am

we are not truly immortal

After Glass's party is over with, Amariah and Kas go home.

Amariah fetches down their alethiometers.

"It's about time I took care of Alethia's afterlife, whatever it may be," she says quietly. "What can the alethiometer tell you about what I'll find?"
truthwright: (⑼ and i'm still on my own)

[personal profile] truthwright 2013-05-22 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay. ...Speaking of visiting it, maybe we should be doing all our sitting around talking about stuff while we're in the six-thousand-times-slower time distortion thing where we left Ghosty," he suggests.
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-05-22 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Sue follows them there.
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[personal profile] lifes_sake 2013-05-22 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Cam shows up a minute later, dockside time.

Didja miss us, Ghosty?
Edited 2013-05-22 22:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-05-22 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, I've been having a great time, she says cheerfully. Calliope's a blast. And the name thing caught on - now there's Aello and Ocypete and Celaeno and Nicothoe and Aoide and Clio and Melpomene and Sappho. They really liked the Greek theme for some reason.
Edited 2013-05-22 23:10 (UTC)
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[personal profile] truthwright 2013-05-22 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Yeah," says Kas, after consulting the alethiometer, "good plan, because right now it's possible for a shade to die and if they do they just - stop."
truthwright: (⑿ when all the world's asleep)

[personal profile] truthwright 2013-05-22 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He consults.

"No."
Edited 2013-05-22 23:20 (UTC)
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[personal profile] truthwright 2013-05-22 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh..."

He asks.

"...So there's this stuff called - the concept I'm getting is something like 'sparkles'," he says. "It's a particle, but it doesn't work like most other particles. It's generated by conscious thought. If somebody makes this stuff, they're a person. So you can tell who is and who's not, empirically. That should be enough to wish on, right? If there's even a coin big enough to do that."

He asks that, too.

"There are no coins big enough to do that currently in this worldsheaf," he says.
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[personal profile] truthwright 2013-05-22 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then I'm pretty sure the alethiometer's telling me there's at least the potential for a coin bigger than an arrow to exist. But I'm not lining up to make it," he laughs.
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[personal profile] truthwright 2013-05-22 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Try Brill?" he suggests.
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[personal profile] truthwright 2013-05-22 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...

He asks the alethiometer.



"No," he says. "They're - kind of symbols. Like the ones on the alethiometer, but a different set, for a different purpose."