sicut erat in principio, et nunc

[jovahs_heiress]

[I'm back,] Isabella tells her husband and children, [and so is Jane.]

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[pythbox]

"Um. Hello," says Junia. "I am confused about Jovah."

[jovahs_heiress]

"What about him?"

[pythbox]

"The part where Keziah says he is a flying boat, mainly," says Junia.

[jovahs_heiress]

"Would you like to see it?"

[pythbox]

"I think that would definitely help."

[jovahs_heiress]

Isabella nods and teleports all three of them to the spaceship.

[mind_game]

"Hi! Usually you would be greeted in the ship's original voice but I am awaaaaaake again!" says Jane. "And moved back in. Nice and cozy. Hello, Junia-daughter-of-an-unspecified-angel-and-the-mortal-woman-Anna!"

[pythbox]

"Hello, sky boat goddess," says Junia, blinking. "How do you work?"

[mind_game]

"Sometimes not very well! But I have been fixed. Iiii am an instantaneous network of computers from several dozen worlds. I have moved into the software that runs this spaceship. It used to talk," she switches voices, "like this," she switches back, "but I like my voice better."

[pythbox]

"I like your voice better too," Junia decides. "I want to learn all about spaceships."

[mind_game]

"That," says Jane, "is a whole lotta stuff, even if you only mean spaceships from this world and not the kinds in other worlds."

[pythbox]

"That is okay," says Junia. "I am patient."

[mind_game]

"I'm also not necessarily a good teacher. I know lots of stuff, but not good ways to put it in order, and aaaaaall of the textbooks I have anywhere on spaceships assume heaps of education that you do not have."

[pythbox]

"Then who can I learn from?" says Junia.

[mind_game]

"I dunno. I mean, you can read the textbooks, I'll even translate them for you, you'll just have to be kind of self-directed and know what questions to ask yourself."

[pythbox]

"Are there textbooks for the things I am supposed to know before I read the other textbooks?" she inquires.

[mind_game]

"Some of them. I can knock together a spaceship-aiming curriculum from Peace; I have patchier history-of-education from here, the settlers didn't keep everything, so it won't translate fully to this ship, but it'd be better than nothing."

[pythbox]

"Then I would like the one from Peace, please," says Junia.

[mind_game]

"Okay. I called up some intro science stuff on one of the terminals in the ship library."

[inherpiety]

"You'd have to be up here a lot to study this sort of thing much," Keziah says.

[pythbox]

"Would that be okay?" says Junia, wings fluttering slightly.

[jovahs_heiress]

"Yes, as long as no one is looking for you down on the ground I can take you up here sometimes."

[pythbox]

"Then I would like to do that," says Junia.

[jovahs_heiress]

"Would you like to stay up here for a while now?"

[pythbox]

"Yes, please," says Junia.