STEAM LONDON: Realms of Aether Game Thread

[Nigel Wetherby]

"But wait," Patrick stepped foreward, touching Emma's shoulder. "If ye stay here, who will pilot the d-hopper?"

"Well," Cain began. "Emma had me test pilot the d-hopper. I could probably pilot us home."

"I always knew you were far smarter than you looked."
Madame Arachne interjected, scuttling into the room with a sway of her hips.
"I saw the light show and Figured I should stop by. Everyone's cheering, so I suppose everything went alright?"

[Stella Gaslight]

"Mama." Angel squealed. "Come meet the other me she is a queen!"

"Monkey I am not going to stay here forever but this kid needs our help." George grinned he would not admit it but he had missed Patrick.   

Emma shook her head at the nickname, some things never changed. "I was wondering if some of your students couldn't use some hands on training. After all we are only a jump away.  You could even found a sister school here.  Now that we can travel from world to world I see no reason why we can't sow the seeds of knowledge there too."  Emma could see there being a branch of the Aether league in every world and it made her proud.

[Nigel Wetherby]

"Well that just goes to show you," Hyacinth chuckled. "Your loved in every universe."

"I missed ye too!" Patrick exclaimed, hugging George tightly. Jen giggled warmly at the sight.

"As for a school...That might not be a bad idea." Patrick turned to Cain.
"Hey, Bro, do ye think ye can hold down tha fort over in our london while we build the new academy? This world might need George Cain and Zora more than ours. What do ye say Cain?"

"Well, Angel would you like to help me raise a new generation of white-flamers? I suppose it would be like living in a fairy tale."

[Stella Gaslight]

"I can teach singing and being nice, maybe Dreyfuss can teach how to make stuff and Mama can teach how to make people better."  It was obvious Angel liked the idea both because she loved to teach and because she loved being around children. "We can come and visit here tho right? Cause I want to watch the babies get big."

[Nigel Wetherby]

"Of course!" Patrick grinned. "We'd be honored to have you over."

Madame Arachne nodded, "I love that idea! I'd love to meet some of the student body, such wonderful potential could be fantastic to study!"

"Well, Mister Dreyfuss, would you like to help teach a new generation of white fire-hurlers?" Cain proposed with a wide, hopeful grin.

Sigmund looked to Helena, holding her hand.
"Well, Helena...where do we belong?"

[Stella Gaslight]

Helena rand a hand through his hair and smiled. "I think right now we belong wherever needs us the most but after that well the world is wide open.  Besides most of all we belong to each other right?"

[Nigel Wetherby]

"You know, this world is alot more different than yours, perhaps I could show you my world and all the beauty it has to offer."
Sigmund stared dreamily off into the distance.
"The flourescent fields of Ireland, the carved mountains of Peru, the guilded halls of the temple of Vladimir the enlightened... The piza observatory. I want to finally share the beauty I've seen with someone who sees it as something beautiful and not just an object of shelter or something to hide behind to avoid being shot."

[Stella Gaslight]

"I would really like that." The room filled with happy sounds as Macaroon came out of hiding and found Sweets. Angel and Cordelia could not stop giggling as their kittens played with one another. Helena smiled too somehow seeing them play like that felt right and she wondered if that wasn't what the big voice in the sky had meant for them all to do.

[MWBailey]

Dreyfuss smiled, and then grinned widely at Cain. "Well, Jockand Mina tell me that the Airwise University's started off well, and some of the brightest of this year's O'Landry seniors volunteered for duty on this trip (they were those dashing young folks in the souped-up blimps blazing back and forth out there, and a few of the wing-packers rescuing beleaguered rebels.); and I hear Esme and Lotta and Rebecca are back together, and Privates Smith and Wesson are part of that group (but i heard a rumor those two were gettin' hitched)."

If we can have permission to take the Elmo back and forth between Our London and this one and teach some piloting and hands-on navigation, maybe some gunnery and arms in case of Aether demons and other threats,, then I think that Yes, I'd like to stay and help out!" Dreyfuss was fairly bursting with pride over how the educational project was turning out.

Cleopatra uncoiled from Dreyfuss' shoulders and glided down and started in playing with the two kittens, and it was rough-and-tumble, flapflapflap, Mrowr!meow!hiiisp! all around the lab...

[Nigel Wetherby]

Hyacinth watched the animals at play with a sweet grin.
"Come on Angel, let's get home. The kids at the acadamy are going to want to meet their new headmaster and headmistress. Along with their school nurse."
Hyacinth touched Angel;s shoulder, wishing she was not the one to pull her from the delight of meeting her alternate self.
Cain nodded in agreement. "She has a point. We'll all take the Boheme, but...let's say our goodbyes first."
Patrick jostled his brother. "What are ye talkin' about? Goodbyes? Not while I still breathe! Yer me brother, and dammit all I'll visit ye and ye can visit me whenever ye like. I'll be happy to have ye."

[Stella Gaslight]

"Bye bye every body we will be back soon!"  Angel did not like goodbyes but Patrick was right this wasn't a goodbye it was a happily ever after and everyone knew that those were never sad.  Angel looked out over the happy faces and knew that everything was going to be alright.

The End

[Jemima Annabelle Clough]

((destickied by request))