we feel misfortunes deep and keen

[dark_light]

Pensive cuddling goes on a long time.

Path nudges against Kas occasionally, almost like he's testing over and over to see if it hurts, but he never flinches, so it must not.

Comments

[telesonorous]

Kalavar laughs. "Not really."

[dark_light]

"Then you can find them anywhere you like," says Path serenely, "if they won't get in anyone's way there."

[telesonorous]

She giggles and snuggles the side of her face against his feathers again.

[dark_light]

"But there might already be some somewhere. Jane would be likeliest to know, when she's sorted herself out and caught up on everything that's happened."

[telesonorous]

"Okay," says Kalavar.

[dark_light]

Well, there's a topic exhausted.

"Have you been checking on the angel tank?" Path asks Petaal, meaning her and Kas, either or both.

[truthwright]

"Once in a while. Nothing much happened to it."

[dark_light]

"Did you hear about the angel tank?" Path asks Kalavar.

[telesonorous]

"Huh?"

[dark_light]

"I'll take that as a no. There were some angels who were involved in the afterlife being how it used to be. Now they are in a tank my Isabella made so they can't make trouble. She'll have to check on it soon."

[telesonorous]

"Oh. Okay," says Kalavar, bobbing her head a little.

[dark_light]

"Not the same kind of angels you'll meet at the party. Another kind," Path clarifies.

[telesonorous]

"That makes sense," she says.

[dark_light]

"It seems like only humans are about the same everywhere."

[telesonorous]

"I wonder why."

[dark_light]

"I'm not sure. And not exactly the same, anyway. This is the only place humans have daemons, and it's only one subworld in a sheaf at that."

[telesonorous]

"But they seem to be more the same," she says thoughtfully. "I hadn't noticed, but it's interesting."

[dark_light]

"It's almost as though species - and planet Earth, if not so much others - are templates like kinds of individual people are. And have more or less variation and commonality."

[telesonorous]

"Yeah," says Kalavar. "Huh. There aren't any other planets that template like that, then?"

[dark_light]

"Well, Earths come with Marses and so on. And Jane finds the stars familiar world to world and can use them to figure when and where her vantage point is, and they're pretty similar in Rêverie, which is very Earth-like but has a variant history. But there's nothing we've found yet that is as similar to Chronicle's or Thilanushinyel's planets."

[telesonorous]

"Do Chronicle and Thilanushinyel have familiar stars, or no?"

[dark_light]

"No, they're different. Materia might be too, and Lake, Jane hasn't checked yet that I know of."

[telesonorous]

"It would be interesting to know," she says. "Does the light in different worlds feel different?"

[dark_light]

"A little. Not by very much, in the worlds we've been to. But we haven't been to Chronicle or Thilanushinyel at night, so they might be different."

[telesonorous]

"Moonlight on the moon is amazing," she says. "Have you ever been?"