do: make introductions; don't: usurp the government

[giftedandtalented]

Tab goes home by door, right into Aelise's office. "Hello again."

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[giftedandtalented]

"Yeah. If Golden had been more reliable about the shielding back then they could have taken over the world together, because Allirea could share, too - only with one person and only while she was faded out herself, but Golden would still be able to see her, and Golden blocked everything that got past Allirea. They could've walked into the throne room of the previous rulers and casually disassembled everyone while their next victims were trying to figure out how to blame the weather. But Golden kept slipping so they had to go with something more complicated involving Elspeth and Nathan and a straight-up fight."

[salus_populi]

Aelise laughs.

"Now there's a mental image."

[giftedandtalented]

"Blaming the weather? Yeah."

[salus_populi]

"Still, congratulations to Golden, not that she wants them."

[giftedandtalented]

"I think it's probably best if you and Golden don't directly talk to each other very much. Go through Lizzie or me."

[salus_populi]

"That's about what I figured."

[giftedandtalented]

"Yeah, I didn't think she was hiding it very well."

[salus_populi]

"I don't get the impression she meant to."

[giftedandtalented]

Tab nods. "Okay. So here's Toronto on the planet Arborea which is probably not even in the Milky Way. Home?"

[salus_populi]

She shrugs; she teleports back to her office.

[pythbox]

Somewhere else, Corona tells Jane, [Think I'll head out now.]

[mind_game]

[Tab wanted to talk to you about minting for her.]

[pythbox]

[...Seriously?]

[mind_game]

[Yep. It would not, most likely, involve setting foot on Gift's Earth at all.]

[pythbox]

[...okay,] he says. [Where would I be setting foot instead?]

[mind_game]

[Tab found a planet that is not even in the Milky Way probably and she's going to put Toronto on it.]

[pythbox]

[That's just about far enough away,] says Corona. [Okay.]

And he teleports to the local Janepoint.

[mind_game]

[Tab is on the planet in question, want to just go there?]

[pythbox]

[Yeah.]

[mind_game]

Pop!

He appears before Tab has left.

[giftedandtalented]

"Oh! Hi, Corona. Welcome to Arborea."

[pythbox]

"Hi," he says, glancing around at the planet. "You wanted to talk?"

[giftedandtalented]

"Yeah. I need a mint. I can try to hire away Pattern's spare, but I thought I'd try you first, in case 'probably not even in the Milky Way' is far away enough from Chelsa to suit you. I'll be resurrecting Toronto just about as soon as I have coin influx sorted out. I'm gonna put it there." She points at the place.

[pythbox]

"You know, I wouldn't have thought I'd want to come back, but a galaxy away is actually far enough," he says. "Surprisingly."

[giftedandtalented]

"I hoped so! Anything else we should work out? I'm probably going to install ground rules on Arborea not unlike what other space-colonist Bells are doing, I hear this might annoy you, will routine vacations out of the world do the trick or do we need to think of something else?"