Paying It Forward (novel): Difference between revisions

| featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cha Ni]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Paying It Forward)|“Stunt pilot” Jenny]]<br>[[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place]]<br>[[Jamek Tagilono]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Genie Everywhere]]<br>[[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny_Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|Jenny on the seaside pier]]<br>[[Clea|“Butch chick”]]<br>[[Lex|"Man with extinguisher"]]<br>[[Bradley|“Tall man”]]<br>[[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|“Sandy-haired man”]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Second Date)|“Biker” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere 5 (Paying It Forward)|“Shih tzu” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere 6 (Paying It Forward)|“Elysium Park” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Cornelius]]<br>[[Jeanne Partout (Paying It Forward)|Jeanne Partout]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Priest Jenny|“Priest” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Silver jumpsuit Jenny|“Silver jumpsuit” Jenny]] <br>[[Jerry Everywhere (Paying It Forward)|Jerry Everywhere]]

Later, in [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|a different universe]], Jenny climbs the stone wall of a medieval castle until she reaches an arrow slit through which she is able to converse with “[[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]”, who is apparently under imminent threat from a [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|Baron]]. Jenny hands Genevieve a loaded gun through the arrow slit before sneaking off again.

[[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|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 3 (Second Date)|biker]] to even the [[Jenny Everywhere 5 (Paying It Forward)|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 6 (Paying It Forward)|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 (Parallax Universe)|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 Everywhere (Paying It Forward)|Jerry]], but finds many other Jennies vying for his attention, with the [[Jenny Everywhere 5 (Paying It Forward)|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.

* Present at the “scaring the sandy-haired man” free-for-all and at the afterparty are the [[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Second Date)|“biker” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere 5 (Paying It Forward)|shih tzu Jenny]] who wears a short pink scarf, the [[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Beauty as a Beast)|“ninja” Jenny]], the [[Jenny Everywhere 4 (Beauty as a Beast)|“barbarian” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere 9 (Paying It Forward)|“priest” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere 10 (Paying It Forward)|Jenny]] wearing “a silver jumpsuit with a blinking LED scarf”, and a handsome male incarnation called [[Jerry Everywhere (Paying It Forward)|Jerry]].

* [[Cha Ni]] reminds Jenny of how she “fought [her] [[Jenny Nowhere 1 (Parallax)|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]]'')