she_sells_seashells | in between moments

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.

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she_sells_seashells

"You did? I could maybe introduce you, but I'd have to take you to where she is, since if she leaves the door it closes and I have to wait to find a new one and that will take months, possibly many. I'm not as lucky with the door as some people."

[D'you wanna meet him if he's up for it?]

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sailorheavymetal

[...Sure!]

"Where, in fact, is she?" wonders Tony.

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she_sells_seashells

"Asgard," says Bell. "...Is Asgard public knowledge? I think it may be another planet. I went home with her so I could fix their bridge."

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poeticterms

"Asgard," Tony repeats, and shakes his head.

"Traditional home of the Norse gods," volunteers Jarvis.

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she_sells_seashells

"I met a person called Sif there and another one called Heimdall who appeared to have been supervising a previous conversation without having been present? Is that informative?"

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poeticterms

"Yes," says Jarvis.

Tony shakes his head and smiles.

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she_sells_seashells

"I don't tend to get mythological references and so on, I have a spotty and culturally impoverished education. I've been going to Milliways since I was six and staying until I ran out of seashells to trade for food, so in some ways I'm very cosmopolitan albeit without much information about what things are and are not common across worlds, but I spent the rest of my childhood in a beach town pretending to be slightly crazy, attending an underfunded school designed to turn out docile fisherfolk, working on a clam boat, and generally existing in a context that has lost all its previous ties to Earth history that isn't a fictionalized version of the Roman Empire."

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poeticterms

Tony blinks. "Okay, that's impressive."

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she_sells_seashells

"...Which part?" Bell asks, tilting her head.

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poeticterms

"Being an empress, on a resume like that?" he says.

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she_sells_seashells

"Oh, I could stay in Milliways for a long, long time if I brought enough seashells and didn't eat much," says Bell. "I talked to everyone and read a lot and watched a lot of video and learned everything I could. And after your alt and Sherlock put me on their tab instead - they're rich, you got a lot of money for winning on the TV show, everyone else outside the Capitol was dirt poor - then I stayed for months instead of weeks until I faked my death and stowed away on their train to move in with them. It's possible I'm actually twenty now by subjective time, but I've never added it up."

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pythbox

Tony shakes his head. "Yeah, no, still impressed."

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she_sells_seashells

"All right, be impressed, then," laughs Shell Bell. "So do you want to come meet Darcy?"

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pythbox

"Darcy... your superhero friend?" he hazards.

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she_sells_seashells

"Yeah, she has a magic space hammer that only lets the worthy lift it that she calls Mewtwo because she can't pronounce whatever its real name is and she is learning superheroing from her friend Sif."

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poeticterms

"Mjolnir," supplies Jarvis. "In all likelihood."

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she_sells_seashells

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

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pythbox

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

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poeticterms

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

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she_sells_seashells

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

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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."