small_magics | who will be coming?

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.

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Spontaneous imprint hugs are way more important than eclairs! "I love you too!" Hugsnuggle.

Snugglehug!

"Some girls came and said they could get rid of more of what Chelsa did and they did and it's gone and it's wonderful," he says, mostly into Zeus's shoulder.

Squish-hug. "That's great! I didn't even know there was anything left."

"Jokers bounce back fast from being doused but she still did it," he explains, "and it was still slowing me down, and now it's not and did I mention I love you? I love you." Snuggle snug.

"I love you." Zeus kisses the top of his imprint's head.

"I love you tooooo." Snuggle snuggle. "Hey, do you wanna come meet some Jokers? You haven't, right? They're fun!"

"Uh, maybe. I actually do not know what will happen if I am presented with a bunch of people who look just like you but aren't!"

"They don't really look just like me," he says thoughtfully. "Well, not to me, anyway, I dunno about you, would it be too weird?"

"I guess we can find out. Maybe if the Imperial Seer is not busy she can check to see if I will explode, first?"

"Sure!" says Harley. "Let's go bug her."

Eventually Alice is located.

She makes kind of a face. "Jokers give me a headache," she sighs, but she closes her eyes anyway. "No, no explosions, not even Edward's weirdness around Bella's alts, you're fine."

"Thanks!" says Zeus.

"Thanks!" beams Harley. "Sorry about your headache!"

And he leads Zeus to the predictable location of a large number of Jokers: the orgy chambers located among the roots of the space plant, under the main room and its encircling platform.

Zeus is sufficiently Harleysexual that he wasn't likely to wander into an orgy for reasons of his own, but he's also a wolf with the consequent casualness around both nudity and personal privacy. He follows his imprint happily.

Anyway, Harley brainphones ahead, and when they enter the correct room everyone is mostly just snuggling.

"Hi, everybody! This is Zeus, he's my wolf and he's the best," he says, giving Zeus the huggiest of hugs.

"Aww, you're adorable," says Queenie from amid the general pile. "Wanna hug?"

Zeus does not need to worry about Andrea coming into contact with other Jokers, so he just says, "Okay!"

Queenie extricates herself and comes up and hugs the Zeus-and-Harley concatenation.

She is extremely cuddly. The cuddliest. Magically cuddly. It's pretty great.