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

[exactlyright]

"What can it do?"

[telesonorous]

"Things," she shrugs. "Mostly subtle things. Making sick trees healthy, lighting fires, stuff like that. Sometimes bigger stuff, though, like flying," and she gestures to the branch on which she sits.

[exactlyright]

"Chronicle witches ride broomsticks too. Except Bella doesn't like them. She has flying armor and a flying carpet and she can just plain fly."

[telesonorous]

"Alethia witches ride cloud-pine," says Helen. "It's a special kind of pine. Amariah made her palace be a giant one. And because my daemon's so big, I can ride her, but I don't know of anybody else who can do that with theirs."

[guessguess]

"Broomsticks on Chronicle can be made out of anything. They don't even really have to be broomsticks. You can make flying laundry baskets, if you want!"

[telesonorous]

"...Flying laundry baskets actually sound a lot more stable," she muses. "I mean, if it was a big enough basket. You could sit in it. Falling off of cloud-pine branches isn't a huge widespread problem or anything, but something basket-shaped has more of a sense of... snugness to it."

[guessguess]

"Yeah, it's only they're not very aerodynamic, and hard to steer."

[telesonorous]

"I can imagine!" she says. "Maybe if it was more... boat-shaped? Like, I don't know, a flying kayak."

[forgefires]

"Oooh, flying boats," says Tanalin. "I want a flying boat! I'm gonna ask Tony to make a flying boat."

[guessguess]

"That sounds like fun! It could have sails! You could sail around in the clouds!"

[forgefires]

"If she makes it big enough for more people, we could sail around in the clouds!"

[exactlyright]

"I like just plain magic flying best, I think. It just sort of works without being all complicated."

[guessguess]

"We can sail around in the clouds and you can fly next to us like a sky dolphin!"

[forgefires]

"This is such a great idea," says Tanalin.

[telesonorous]

Helen giggles.

[exactlyright]

"That does sound fun," admits Carinna.

[guessguess]

"I have fun ideas," says Kiawen.

[forgefires]

"You do! You're a fun person."

[guessguess]

"Yes."

Keys nearly falls off her shoulder, but she catches him.

[forgefires]

Tanalin giggles.

[telesonorous]

"What is that, by the way? It looks like a tiny panda," says Helen. "A really adorable tiny panda. In a really adorable tiny waistcoat."

[guessguess]

"This is Keys! He is my piano bear. I made him the waistcoat so he would be able to get dressed up for the party, too." (Kiawen is in a pretty princess dress being a pretty princess.) "Piano bears are from the Gentle Cave, like fluffbats -" She waves at Sunrise. "And poofs. Carinna has a poof."

[exactlyright]

Carinna takes Mossy out of her pocket.

[telesonorous]

"So many small cute fluffy things!" says Helen.

[forgefires]

"The Gentle Cave is the best cave," says Tanalin. "I love my fluffbat."