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

[lexicality]

"Why not? Is it because it's sappy, because it is totally sappy."

[wildlymagical]

He laughs.

"All right, maybe. Not that I don't feel sappy. But I don't need to go around advertising it to everyone."

[lexicality]

Lexi laughs too. "Awwwww."

[wildlymagical]

He smiles.

[lexicality]

"Awwwwwww! Oh hey did you hear Sarion's going to marry them?"

[wildlymagical]

Lycaelon laughs. "I did, yes."

[lexicality]

"And Angela's gonna officiate, an angel is going to get a demon and an elf and a dragon all married, it's hilarious!"

[wildlymagical]

"Is there something I'm missing about angels?"

[lexicality]

"Oh, at home, demons - not like all the millions of kinds Sunshine has so much, red ones with horns and tails and wings just exactly like Aianon pretty much - and angels, basically like Samaria angels only with halos sometimes - are kind of, like, mythical opposites? The angels are the good guys and the demons are the bad guys."

[wildlymagical]

"Aha," says Lycaelon.

[lexicality]

"We don't actually have either thing and so far the worlds with demons don't have angels and vice-versa, but it's still funny!"

[wildlymagical]

"I can see that."

[lexicality]

"There's this thing - people don't actually believe it but like in cartoons and stuff if someone is trying to decide between a good and a bad choice, they get a tiny little demon and a tiny little angel, one on each shoulder, telling them what to do. Sometimes I call Bella my shoulder angel. My shoulder Bella, anyway."

[wildlymagical]

Lycaelon laughs.

"There are legends here of the Dark being able to influence people in a similar way, but unfortunately I think those are true. And we have no angels."

[lexicality]

"Well, since the shoulder angel and shoulder demon idea exists and everybody recognizes it, there are cartoons that, like, play with it, making it so there's only the one of them if the person is very good or very bad, or having them fight each other, or whatever."

[wildlymagical]

"Ansharil sometimes turns into the Samaria kind of angel," he mentions.

[lexicality]

Lexi thinks about this. She tilts her head. "Okay, that's kinda weird."

[wildlymagical]

"He likes the wings. So do the rest of us. They're very soft."

[lexicality]

"They look it! I haven't grabbed any though, Aurora says Angela says it's like grabbing their butts."

[wildlymagical]

"Yes," says Lycaelon.

[lexicality]

Lexi blinks, then bursts out laughing again.

[wildlymagical]

Lycaelon laughs.

[lexicality]

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

[wildlymagical]

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

[lexicality]

"Jokers," snorts Lexi.