who will be coming?

[small_magics]

Aianon has made a plant in the open airless space above the surface of Thilanushinyel. It is a very, very large plant - some dragons will be attending the party, after all, even if Ansharil in particular is going to be assorted small things and stay on Sarion's person the bulk of the time.

The locals will be Sarion, her beloveds, their other beloved, the five conjured dragons (and their Bondmates, where applicable: Virgivere and Lissa), and Liselen - Magania has, as usual, declined, and so far no Bell party has featured Bell parents.

Amariah is bringing her boyfriend and spontaneous daughter and two of the spontaneous daughter's friends, as well as an Alethian instance of the Rupert template.

Shell Bell is bringing Pearl and Screwdriver.

Golden is bringing her usual large contingent, as usual not including her husband but including her daughter and daughter's grown fosterling (the other remaining at home) and his wolf, both mothers-in-law and one father-in-law, adopted siblings, staff members including the Joker and Nathan, and the children of the aforementioned.

Glass is bringing both wives, all three daughters, Kanim, and her cat. She invited Icarin and Valeria, but their parents are not willing to let them gallivant into other worlds unsupervised and had a scheduling conflict.

Stella's bringing a smattering of people including Alice, Anna, Sandy, Libby, Bridget, her college roommate Janine, and Lazarus.

Tab is bringing Aelise (but not Kers) and Luhan.

Etty is bringing only Nona.

Aether, likewise, brings no one but Celo.

Pattern comes with Ripper, Slipstick, Queenie, and Ghosty.

Aegis is accompanied by her four-bodied boyfriend, Merryweather, Whitlock, and Howlett.

Aurora comes with Brilliance, Lexi with her Device Persica, Agent Honey with her Device Adularia, and Beth.

Rose brings her husband and three children and her former apprentice, Luc.

Angela brings her husband, her four children, several of her friends, and some of those friends' children and grandchildren with and without wings. Keziah also brings a friend.

Juliet shows up with Soph, Minus, Red, Giles, James, Virginia, Minnie, Ike, and Val.

Cam brings Jellybean and Tilly and stops there.

And from unBelled worlds hail additional Sherlocks and Tonies, Darcy, Matilda, Pepper, and Eights.

Comments

[wildlymagical]

Lycaelon laughs.

[snowandsparks]

"The spaceship does what she says now, but it used to pick Archangels by itself," explains Lucas. "I don't know if it had picked her out before, or if she had to tell it to pick her."

[lexicality]

"That kinda thing cannot be usual with dragons and their dragon-havers," says Lexi, "I mean mostly they go around dragon-shaped, right?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Seriously? She's Eights," says Anna.

Eights shrugs.

[newtimov]

"Oh. Yes, there's that," he says. "You could always ask, I guess."

[thaumobabble]

"And you can mint her, as long as she's not going to mint Chainsaw or give him coins," says Glass, "but that's her, in particular. Don't just mint all your friends."

[wildlymagical]

"Mostly they do," he agrees, "and mostly Bonded are not - like that. But my Bonded are very much like that."

[snowandsparks]

"It would be a kind of presumptuous question! And I still don't really know her."

[lexicality]

"Jokers," snorts Lexi.

[lookingforwardtoit]

"What are you on," says Anna. Eights becomes minted.

[thaumobabble]

"Did Stella actually hire you without warning you about not minting people?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"No," says Anna. "Which is why I find it weird and kind of insulting that you're telling me it's okay to mint Eights but I shouldn't do it to just anybody, like wanting to mint my alt who has spent more time being a Downside contractor than the Bells have collectively been alive somehow means I'm going to start flinging hexes at people I pass in the street?"

[newtimov]

"I could ask Juliet," he says.

[wildlymagical]

"Jokers," he agrees, grinning.

[thaumobabble]

"Some templates vary more than others and Bells are holding some information that doesn't necessarily percolate to everybody for assorted reasons. And I don't know you and Stella's not here, and I can't tell by looking if your algorithm is 'she asked nicely' or 'if one member of a template is minted they all should be' or 'I felt like it' or what you said."

[snowandsparks]

"Would she know? I'm not clear on how much they talk to each other about that kind of thing. Also there was something to do with time going on that I don't understand."

[lexicality]

"How come you haven't named your template?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Okay," says Anna. "Well, next time, try leading with the part about Bells having secret information nobody knows about, because that actually makes sense. Let's go meet our dragon alt, Eights."

She heads for the nearest dragon-sized doorway. Eights doesn't follow immediately.

[newtimov]

"If she doesn't know, I'm sure she can find out!"

[wildlymagical]

He shrugs. "We were busy talking about other things. Or not talking."

[lexicality]

"Not talking," giggles Lexi.

[thaumobabble]

Glass shakes her head, shoots an apologetic look at Eights, and moves on.

[wildlymagical]

"My template likes to have a drink and sit quietly sometimes. I don't know what you're thinking." (Yes he does.)

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan takes a couple steps following Anna, waiting for Eights.

[lookingforwardtoit]

She starts walking as soon as he does.