Continued from Sages post [For Random Xtras]

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[ww_npcs]

There are a few thermal blankets - thin silvery things, but much more effective than they look - the kit. Rocinolle will hand those over to John as she gets the rings in place and activated.

[random_xtras]

"Is it safe to move her?" he asks as he carefully tucks them around his wife.

[ww_npcs]

With the last ring in place and activated Rocinolle nods. "It is now."

[random_xtras]

"Good. Thank you." Ann is quickly lifted and cocooned in the blankets, and then he's asking Grace for a hand up as he aims to bring her up into the pouch.

[ww_npcs]

Rocinolle stays near. And Plant is still giving scritches to the two younger mammoths.

[random_xtras]

John swings toward the uninhabited pouch, feeling that Ann will need a little quiet. The flap is pushed aside and the two vanish into it. A moment later Tara crawls from the first pouch and goes to peek in at her parents.

[talkstodaisies]

Sheldon's guarding the portal now, until someone else can arrive. Several batontons fly overheard to track the location of the escaped sabertooth.

And Plant's still petting both smaller mammoths and curiously checking the older little one for burrs.

[random_xtras]

The cat's easy to track... till he vanishes into thin air.

No burrs here either, but down in the fur by her toes are what look like normal carrot seeds.

[talkstodaisies]

That surprise causes more that a bit of panic, and a hasty recall of the batontons. The area where the cat vanished is noted as hazardous and warnings are made to avoid it, just in case. Theories range from it simply 'nexus-poofing' back home to being LOLed invisible to being disintegrated by something. Whichever it is, no one is going to be going near that area for a while.

Plant will just collect a few seeds for further study. She's not too sure if this will be any use to Mars yet, but new plants always have her curious.

A couple Repliforcers arrive to guard the portal in case of more stray animals, and Sheldon, Scarab, and Gate prepare to head home and see what's become of the woolly rhino.

Rocinolle sticks around for a bit, to pass along instructions about how the leg brace works and answer any questions if needed.

[random_xtras]

Grace is rumbling, her discomfort at being in these temperatures in her winter coat combining with the desire to take her family back to where she knows how things work leading her to call to her daughters and turn her face toward the portal. She waits though. Her people are talking to the other people, and she doesn't know if the other people want in a pouch.

"How long does this thing stay on?" John is asking. "Do you want it back?"

[ww_npcs]

"No need to return it. They're common enough in our world," says Rocinolle. "There's a set of lights on the rings. They'd be red now, meaning to be careful. When they turn yellow it's clear to put some weight on the leg, but the bone's not all the way healed yet. When they're green the brace can come off."

"There's a set of four buttons and the order to press them in to unlock is printed under them." It had been done that way to keep people from accidentally knocking the braces off.

"If there's anything else you need to know, I live here in the Nexus. There's a building that way with a big yellow metal creature in front." She knows they won't know what a metool is. "It's harmless, and I'm usually in the repair building right next door."

[random_xtras]

He nods, listening to this all carefully. At the last he frowns slightly. "Do you think we'll be able to come back?"

[ww_npcs]

"So long as the portal remains stable," says Rocinolle. "Otherwise..." she looks around for a moment and fetches a handful of PINPoints and an instruction pamplet from nearby, and then holds them up. "Here, these are a sort of teleporter that will let you get back here if you want."