the end of vigil

[inherpiety]

Keziah continues to routinely invite Junia to sing with her.

Today they are practicing the Third Angelic Rite.

And then - how rude! - the door to the music room opens.

But not to the hallway - and not to any visible hand - and there is a strong press of magical presence emanating from it, and a faint sheen of rainbow water droplets hanging in the air.

Comments

[giftedandtalented]

[We've got an alt of Chelsea, and the world was already taken over with her as an instrumental part of it for hundreds of years before I was born, by the Gift Libby. He landed right smack dab in front of Chelsa.]

[yovahs_kisses]

[Wow. Yeah. That's bad. Is - is he okay?]

[giftedandtalented]

[He didn't look great, but he's in Aurum again with Elspeth and he collected an adorable puffy creature from Chronicle to hold on the way.]

[thaumobabble]

[A poof. My eldest has one,] supplies Glass.

[yovahs_kisses]

[Aww,] says Micaiah. [Okay.]

[giftedandtalented]

[He also kept Sueporting into increasingly inhospitable locations to get away from Chelsa, such as, lastly, the sun,] adds Tab, [but I have the impression he preferred it, so. Gift had a local Joker called Corona, too, but he's in Aurum at the moment.]

[luminous_regnant]

[Currently his ongoing residence there hasn't been negotiated. Speaking of people in Aurum, I will talk to Nathaniel about coming back here after we've investigated the welcoming committee, but it's been almost sixteen years in Aurum and he might prefer to stay at this point.]

[yovahs_kisses]

[How's he doing?]

[luminous_regnant]

[He has been living an unremarkable life on an asteroid the Joker terraformed for him with the vampire who mated to him. He hasn't turned, at least so far.]

[yovahs_kisses]

[Aww,] says Micaiah. [That's cute. Is he happy? I bet he's happy.]

[luminous_regnant]

[He seems so, yes.]

[yovahs_kisses]

[Good. I'm glad. My angel's out of her meeting now,] he adds, and conferences in Angela. [Hey guess who came to visit!]

[jovahs_heiress]

[Oh! Hello, everyone! What's going on?]

[cross_and_bow]

[We're collecting all of us - except Sarion who desperately needs the alone time what with Aianon and Ansharil having got stranded - to go see what went wrong with the welcoming committee. And time-sync the worlds, which is now done for here.]

[self_composed]

[Keziah's friend Junia is an alt of my college roommate Janine,] Stella adds.

[jovahs_heiress]

[I'll be along in just a second. Am I the last you're picking up?]

[incanted]

[Yep. Oh, and new Bell here is Tab.]

[giftedandtalented]

[Nice to meet you.]

[jovahs_heiress]

Angela appears.

[yovahs_kisses]

Micaiah appears too, and hugs his angel, because when would he ever not do that?

[pythbox]

"There are a lot of people in this room," observes Junia, from a small corner of it.

[she_sells_seashells]

"We'll be on our way soon. Micaiah, you coming along or staying behind?" asks Shell Bell, reaching for the door again and flaring her aura.

[yovahs_kisses]

"Good question," he says. "I think I'll stay."

He gives his angel a kiss.

[jovahs_heiress]

Kiss!

Angela also kisses Keziah's hair, and she follows her alts out of the world.

[inherpiety]

"So, um, those are my mom's alts," says Keziah. "I have one too! At least one. Some of them could have had two children since the last time we saw them and then I would have more."