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

[snowandsparks]

Lucas looks him over. Almost casually. "I could pick you up," he repeats.

[newtimov]

"I am not sure I believe you!" says Ike. "I demand empirical testing."

[snowandsparks]

Lucas grins, and -

scoops him right up.

[newtimov]

"Eee!" squeaks Ike. "I am surprised and delighted!"

[snowandsparks]

"You are heavier than a regular mortal your size would be, but not four times heavier or anything," grins Lucas. "I'll admit I probably couldn't carry you and your sister at the same time even with a basket or something."

[newtimov]

Ike giggles. And, since he is scooped and all, hugs Lucas.

[snowandsparks]

Lucas laughs; he's already using his arms, but he's got wings! Swoosh. Now they are around Isaac.

[newtimov]

Isaac is surrounded by fluffiness! "I feel very snuggled," he says.

[snowandsparks]

"Let me know if you get too warm. Angels are. Warm, I mean."

[newtimov]

"I have noticed that. It's nice," he says.

[snowandsparks]

Lucas grins. "It's so we can fly at high altitudes and not freeze."

[newtimov]

"That's convenient!" he says. "Convenient and also cuddly."

[snowandsparks]

"Yep. Although not all the mortals know about it, so if we stay in inns or things like that the fire's usually piled way too high in our rooms and so on. The angel holds are too cold for mortals and they all go around in long sleeves and extra layers."

[newtimov]

He giggles.

[snowandsparks]

"Well, Cedar Hills isn't that cold, since it's at ground level," amends Lucas. "But I live in Monteverde."

[newtimov]

"I do not know what either of those places is like!" he says.

[snowandsparks]

"Monteverde, and the Eyrie, where the Archangel-Elect leads the host, are carved into mountains, lots of chambers and it's a long walk if you want to take the stairs. Windy Point used to be the least accessible of the lot, but then the Archangel Gabriel destroyed it and built Cedar Hills instead."

[newtimov]

"...For... reasons?"

[snowandsparks]

"Oh, it was a den of wickedness, all of its angels were dead, half on Mount Galo and half because the previous Archangel Raphael had poisoned everybody who wouldn't go with him to Mount Galo." Pause. "Mount Galo is the first thing the spaceship everyone thinks is a god smites if we don't sing the Gloria every year, and that year the Windy Point faction wanted to skip it to prove divine impotence so Raphael could keep power instead of handing it off to Gabriel."

[newtimov]

"I take it that did not go as planned."

[snowandsparks]

"Nope. Spaceship exists, spaceship really does smite Mount Galo if we don't sing, a bunch of angels from Windy Point and some of their mortal friends were up there and they all died, it took a long time for the angel population to recover."

[newtimov]

"That is sad," says Ike, snuggling up.

[snowandsparks]

"Well, yes," says Lucas, adjusting his wings around Ike, "but if Raphael had stayed in power we'd still have slavery and so on, so."

[newtimov]

"Ye-es. It's sad that he poisoned a bunch of people and then got a bunch more killed trying to play chicken with a spaceship," says Ike. "It would have been much better if he had just not done any of that."

[snowandsparks]

"Yes. That would have been an improvement."