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

[newtimov]

"Bell reasons," he summarizes. "I guess she wanted us to introduce her to our Sessiaki relatives and show her around Siathe and stuff. Which we did, and it was okay."

[snowandsparks]

"I have... no frame of reference at all, for being half demon and being able to show a Bell around a place she hasn't been."

[newtimov]

Ike giggles.

[snowandsparks]

"I mean, angels are relatively exotic, there aren't that many of us, but the Archangel-Elect lived at Monteverde for a year once working with Linus - he's the current Archangel."

[newtimov]

"Juliet was the Slayer for a while - that is a legendary sort of thing to be, among demons anyway. Now she's just meddlesome. But in a good way!"

[snowandsparks]

"What's a Slayer?"

[newtimov]

"A... magic... legendary... person. There is one of them at a time and she has superpowers and beats up evil things."

[snowandsparks]

"Are there any Bells whose own worlds don't frame them as special according to local - ideas of specialness? I heard somebody saying that the one who's hosting this party is a saint."

[newtimov]

"I suspect that in cases where they are not already special in some way, they arrange to be," says Ike.

[snowandsparks]

"Yeah, there's that," snorts Lucas. "I'm not actually sure if Isabella was already going to be the next Archangel or if she arranged it."

[newtimov]

"Well, what's the difference?"

[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."

[newtimov]

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

[snowandsparks]

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

[newtimov]

"I could ask Juliet," he says.

[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."

[newtimov]

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

[snowandsparks]

"Okay then."

[newtimov]

He brainphones Juliet.

[Hey, do you know if Angela made herself be going to be Archangel or if she was already going to be anyway?]

[cross_and_bow]

[She was a likely candidate but her probability hadn't gone up enough to be announced until she interfered. Why?]

[newtimov]

[Idle curiosity. Thanks!]

He relays this information word-for-word to Lucas.

[snowandsparks]

"Huh. Kind of between the guesses."

[newtimov]

"Yep!" says Ike.

[snowandsparks]

"I have no idea how the spaceship used to pick them, though. I mean, it picked Raphael."

[newtimov]

"So clearly whatever way it picked them had problems."