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]

"He's very admirable that way."

[lexicality]

"He is! How do you communicate through Mageprice, it doesn't sound much like - you know, talking."

[wildlymagical]

"It's exactly as not like talking as it sounds, but it's still more communicative than not interacting directly at all," he says. "When I cast a spell, the Wild Magic learns something about what I want; when I get a Mageprice, I learn something about what it wants. Not exactly a conversation, but still kind of an exchange."

[lexicality]

"That sounds really frustrating."

[wildlymagical]

"I like it just fine," he says, shrugging. "I don't need any more from the Wild Magic than I get."

[lexicality]

"I'm glad I don't have to do that with Persica. She just talks."

"Yes," agrees Persica, glittering.

[wildlymagical]

"Not very much," Lycaelon observes.

[lexicality]

"She's not a chatty peachy, but she can talk in complete sentences and understand English," says Lexi, patting her Device.

[wildlymagical]

Lycaelon laughs.

[lexicality]

"And did I mention she can turn into a kickass staff, because she can, do you want to see?"

[wildlymagical]

"All right."

[lexicality]

Lexi plucks Persica from her chain, and Persica changes. She's a long pearlescent coruscation of warm colors ranging from pastel orange through yellow and rose, capped in a small peach-colored gem at one end, and at the other end sporting a larger gem with a peachlike cleft impressed in it, which is surrounded by golden, sleekly mechanical leaf-shaped protrusions.

"Device Mode," Persica announces. Smugly.

[wildlymagical]

"Very pretty," says Lycaelon.

[lexicality]

"Thank you," says Persica and Lexi at the same time.

[wildlymagical]

He grins.

[thaumobabble]

Glass pops into existence beside them. "Hi. I'm dividing everybody's templates into clusters, of which there are two, we don't know anything else yet. You're green," she says to Lexi, "like the Bells are - and you're purple," she says to Lycaelon.

[lexicality]

"What about my Peachy?"

[thaumobabble]

"Huh? Oh. Not a template, but green."

[wildlymagical]

"Who else is purple?"

[thaumobabble]

"Sherlocks, Tonies, Jokers, Ikes - I don't know who all you've met so I'm not sure who to list."

[wildlymagical]

"I have met Jokers," he laughs. "The others, no."

[thaumobabble]

"Oh, and Darcy and Sidanar, Sidanar being one of the conjured dragons, are purple too, although if you haven't met any Sherlocks or Tonies then you haven't made an investigation of the conjured dragons."

[wildlymagical]

"I don't meet very many people."

[thaumobabble]

"I'm getting that sense. So, Bells and Lexi here are green, Jokers and you are purple."

[wildlymagical]

"I wonder what it means. I suppose you've said you don't know."