in between moments

[she_sells_seashells]

Shell Bell has not found Milliways by herself since the occasion on which she first met Sherlock.

Today, after eight months, she does.

She makes sure that Sherlock and Tony are both awake, finds that they are but do not want to join her in the bar today unless she finds something interesting, checks her coin supply and finds it sufficient, and steps through.

Comments

[she_sells_seashells]

"That doesn't sound very much like Mewtwo at all," Bell remarks.

[pythbox]

"Cultural reference," says Tony. "To a videogame. Jarvis, how do I explain Pokemon?"

[poeticterms]

"A question for the ages," Jarvis says dryly.

[she_sells_seashells]

"I know what a videogame is," says Shell Bell helpfully. "I've never played one, but I've heard of them."

[pythbox]

"That's a start!" says Tony. "Mewtwo is a... rare and powerful imaginary animal from a videogame about collecting imaginary animals and making them beat up other imaginary animals for you so you can collect those too."

[she_sells_seashells]

"That actually sounds kinda fun," says Shell Bell, "if the imaginary animals don't spend the whole time being miserable about beating each other up."

[pythbox]

"Nope, as far as I remember, they're mostly weirdly cheerful about it."

[she_sells_seashells]

"That's good, then. Now I get Darcy's reference. Are we gonna go introduce you or talk about video games?" Shell Bell giggles.

[pythbox]

"Video games," he says, pointing at her emphatically, "are serious business."

[she_sells_seashells]

"Perhaps I'll borrow one from Milliways on my way home and collect some imaginary animals."

[pythbox]

"Anyway," he says, "I think I'll pass on the interplanetary travel."

[she_sells_seashells]

[He says no interplanetary travel for him,] Bell relays to Darcy.

"You're not particularly adventurous," she comments. "...At least not when someone else drives."

[pythbox]

Tony grins. "You got me."

[sailorheavymetal]

[Reasonable,] Darcy concedes.

[she_sells_seashells]

[If you want to meet him bad enough, then Sif could hold the door and I could pop up and get you, but I dunno how much you care.]

"I do know several of you," Shell Bell points out, "even if you're older than all of them and less Sherlock-having."

[sailorheavymetal]

[I don't think I care that much,] says Darcy.

[pythbox]

"Yeah," says Tony, "that's still weird, by the way."

[she_sells_seashells]

"I suppose not everyone has desperately wanted to meet their alts since they were thirteen."

[pythbox]

He smiles. "Well, none of mine are empresses of anything, right?"

[she_sells_seashells]

"Not as far as I know, although there's a girl Sherlock, maybe there's a girl you somewhere too, maybe she's an empress?" shrugs Bell.

[pythbox]

He laughs and shakes his head. "Who knows."

[she_sells_seashells]

"Not me, yet, but I plan to live forever and maybe in all that time I will find out," says Shell Bell pleasantly.

[pythbox]

"Ambitious," says Tony.

[she_sells_seashells]

"Ambitious is that I want pretty much everyone else to live forever, too, and today I plan to see if I can raise the dead," says Shell Bell. "Planning to live forever is self-preservation."

[pythbox]

"...Yeah," he says, "it's self-preservation if you can do it."