how are you feeling?

[small_magics]

[It seems that perhaps we should speak,] Isibel says to Lycaelon. She wishes him a cup of tea, wherever he is, hovering in the air waiting for him to take it. [Though I confess I do not know where to begin.]

Comments

[small_magics]

Her visitors wait.

[pythbox]

She snorts.

"Tianthonet," she says, "has chosen this of all moments to find her first Bonded. Impeccable timing as always."

[small_magics]

"There are," says Isibel, "some non-dragon templates who I recently discovered, also."

[pythbox]

"...Go on," says Sherial.

[small_magics]

"The names would mean nothing to you as yet, but -" She takes a look at Tianthonet's new Bonded.

[pythbox]

Tianthonet's new Bonded is also the local Virginia alt.

[small_magics]

"Tianthonet's new bonded is an alt of a template of whom there are two others. They call themselves Virginias."

[pythbox]

"And do they normally associate with Tianthonets?" inquires Sherial.

[small_magics]

"One of them does. The other is primarily associated with a Libby, although the world does contain a Tony. There is also a Libby here, who is human, but we have been addressing the dragon alts first."

[pythbox]

"Tianthonet finding her Bonded just now, who just happens to be of a template previously associated with hers, is the kind of coincidence that usually isn't," says Sherial. "Who are all of the other unaddressed templates, and do they come with any existing associations to one of us like that?"

[nonbird]

"Well, there's apparently a Kolya," volunteers Lazarus. "They're attached to mes. And vice versa."

[small_magics]

"The Libbies have no obvious attachments to any particular other template, although Glass has said they are slightly attracted to your own template even if we haven't routinely seen the combination appear together. I... suppose we could expect Arianna to wind up attached to the elf of Sandy. There is no one obviously lying in wait for Sidanar."

[pythbox]

"'Sandy' is a template attached to Arianna's?" asks Sherial.

[small_magics]

"Yes, they've appeared together three times now and never separately."

[pythbox]

"Perhaps," says Sherial, "we should tell all of these people about their potential attachments."

[small_magics]

"Quite possibly. I am an advocate of thoughtful Bonding. I hope Tianthonet and her new Bonded are adjusting comfortably."

[pythbox]

"She isn't very talkative at the moment."

[small_magics]

"I suppose not. Perhaps Arianna and Sidanar and Elasirae would be alarmed if summoned by brainphone and I should fetch them in person, but you would know better than I."

[pythbox]

"I don't think Elasirae would be likely to mind, but he'd get distracted by wanting to know what you were doing and how you were doing it and where it came from. I'm less sure about the other two," says Sherial.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I'll see if he's in range of my witchcraft, then. That'll be faster."

Elasirae? (And: now he's on the brainphone this is how it works this is where it is from this is who she is this is where she is and who she's with and why.)

[pythbox]

[My goodness,] says Elasirae.

[her_imperial_radiance]

And she could teleport him in to join the conversation, if he would not like to risk unexpected Bonding without thinking about it first!

[pythbox]

[That would be extremely convenient,] he says, [thank you.]

[her_imperial_radiance]

Pop, pop. "You're welcome."

[pythbox]

"Oh, hello, Sherial."

"Hello, Elasirae," she says. "I sent Tianthonet to get you, but she got Bonded instead." She points a claw delicately at the tall beaky human. "This is Lazarus. He is one of you from another world."