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 [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]] next ends up in a [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|more mundane universe]] in a [[Right-On By The Sea|very familiar-feeling seaside town]], just in time to hear the first cries of a fire having broken out. Trying to make her way through the crowd, she attempts to pass the fire extinguisher Cha Ni told her to bring onto the right person without being seen by people familiar with the [[Jenny Everywhere#In Right-On By The Sea|local Jenny]], so as not to “make things awkward” for her other self. She is less than successful at this, however, with [[Bradley|a tall one]] directly noticing her through the commotion and a bald man (who already seemed to find something odd about her) directly seeing her shift away as she leaves, to her abashment.
 ====Part 6====
-[[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]] joins a number of her other incarnations in [[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|another universe]] to spook a [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]] who apparently did a great, if unspecified, wrong to some other Jenny. The story's main Jenny plays her small part as, while walking down the street, the man finds that everyone around him — from the [[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|biker]] to even the [[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|shish tzu dog]] — is a version of Jenny. The “helpful” Jenny and “shifh tzu” Jenny soon climb onto the “biker” Jenny's motorcycle and they give chase to their quarry all the way to [[Elysium Park]], where he comes across [[Jenny Everywhere#Confrontation in Elysium Park|the local Jenny Everywhere]], much to his surprise. Realising everyone in the park is also Jenny, he is appropriately cowed as the local Jenny chews him out. With their work done, the biker Jenny tells the “helpful” Jenny that there's going to be an afterparty and invites her along.
+[[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]] joins a number of her other incarnations in [[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|another universe]] to spook a [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]] who apparently did a great, if unspecified, wrong to some other Jenny. The story's main Jenny plays her small part as, while walking down the street, the man finds that everyone around him — from the [[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|biker]] to even the [[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|shih tzu dog]] — is a version of Jenny. The “helpful” Jenny and “shifh tzu” Jenny soon climb onto the “biker” Jenny's motorcycle and they give chase to their quarry all the way to [[Elysium Park]], where he comes across [[Jenny Everywhere#Confrontation in Elysium Park|the local Jenny Everywhere]], much to his surprise. Realising everyone in the park is also Jenny, he is appropriately cowed as the local Jenny chews him out. With their work done, the biker Jenny tells the “helpful” Jenny that there's going to be an afterparty and invites her along.
 ====Part 7====
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+[[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]] indeed joins the afterparty. After listening to other Jennies' guesses as to what precisely the [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]] had done, she tries to get close to [[#Jerry at the afterparty|Jerry]], but finds many other Jennies vying for his attention, with the [[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|shih tzu]] eventually winning out (by virtue of being a cute dog). She has a quiet, ponderous moment wondering how other people would see this gathering of versions of herselves, before deciding that, actually, if they don't see this peaceful gathering of (outwardly) highly different people as a good thing, it's their loss.
 ===Worldbuilding===
 ====Jenny Everywhere====
 *The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|main Jenny]] is the version previously seen in ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'' and ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]''.
 * It is suggested that the oracle [[Cha Ni]] is also a version of the Shifter. She described as “about [Jenny's] height, with long silver hair”, wearing “a layered white robe and, of course, a long stole and a blindfold over her eyes”.
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 *In [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is a medieval princess called [[Jenny Everywhere#Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve]] who styles herself the “Princess of Everywhere”. She occasionally has “prophetic dreams”, implicitly nuggets of information or messages from her other selves, but does not seem fully aware of her true nature.
 *[[Universe (Name's Not Down)|One universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere#In Right-On By The Sea|Jenny]] wears “a jacket with a furrier collar than [the story's main Jenny would] choose”. She is friends with a [[Clea|“butch chick”]] and a [[Bradley|very tall man]]. (The implication is that this is the Jenny from ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' and ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]''.)
+*[[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere#Confrontation at Elysium Park|Jenny]] lives in [[New Guernsey]] and is the one to call down retribution on the [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]].
+*Present at the “scaring the sandy-haired man” free-for-all and at the afterparty are the [[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|“biker” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|shih tzu Jenny]] who wears a short pink scarf, the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a ninja|“ninja” Jenny]], the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a barbarian|“barbarian” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Priest Jenny|“priest” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Silver jumpsuit Jenny|Jenny]] wearing “a silver jumpsuit with a blinking LED scarf”, and a handsome male incarnation called [[Jenny Everywhere#Jerry at the afterparty|Jerry]].
 ====Universes====
 *The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|main Jenny]] lives in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. She visits [[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|another one]] which is home to the [[Temple of the Oracle]], and the universes of the various Jennies mentioned in the previous section of this article.
 ====Other====
 *[[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]] once saved “her world's computer inter-network” in something to which she refers as “the [[Eye of Tripoli]] thing” and got banned from [[Shangri-La]] for “putting the ram in the Rama Llama’s ding-dong”. She insists that she only had good intentions.
 ===Continuity===
 *A Jenny with silver hair and a blindfold, thus fitting the description of [[Cha Ni]], previously appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'' as one of the patrons of “[[the Restaurant]]”, as did the “[[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|biker Jenny]]”.
+*The [[Jenny Everywhere#As a ninja|“ninja” Jenny]] also appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'', after having first been mentioned, alongside the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a barbarian|“barbarian” Jenny]] (who also appears in ''Paying It Forward''), in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Beauty as a Beast (comic story)|Beauty as a Beast]]''.
 * [[Cha Ni]] reminds Jenny of how she “fought [her] [[Jenny Nowhere#Killed by a dinosaur|mirror self]] to her death”, referring this Jenny's first encounter with a [[Jenny Nowhere]], in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'', as well as of her saving the Internet from the [[Eye of Tripoli]], something mentioned as a recent achievement of Jenny's in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'')
 *One of the items sought after by [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place|Janni]] is “an owl made of lightning”, an allusion to ''[[Lightning Made of Owls (series)|Lightning Made of Owls]]'', a webcomic with which [[Jenny Everywhere]] previously crossed over in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls]]''.