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

[newtimov]

"I have not had any pets either. But someday I will have a cute fluffy robot friend."

[lifes_sake]

"I wish you the best of luck. The fur exterior won't present insoluble problems with cooling the processors or anything?"

[newtimov]

He shrugs. "Not very many things are really insoluble if you are clever and have flexible parameters!"

[lifes_sake]

"I like that attitude."

[newtimov]

Ike beams!

[lifes_sake]

"You are very cute and I would rather like to kiss you."

[newtimov]

...Ike beams more!

"I would like to kiss you too!" he says.

[lifes_sake]

"Excellent," says Cam, "that's very convenient."

Ike is shorter than he is, so Cam just leans right down and kisses him.

[newtimov]

Kisses! Kind of grinny kisses. Hopefully that is okay.

[lifes_sake]

It is okay, if a little giggle-inducing.

[newtimov]

Giggles can be a bad sign, but in this case Ike tentatively concludes that they are okay.

Kisses. Kisses are nice. Cam is so pretty. Also he is very kissable.

[lifes_sake]

Cam is pretty and kissable and nice! Ike is also those things.

This kiss should be accompanied by more of a hug. The one of Cam's arms that is not attached on one end to Ike's hand participates in bringing this about.

[newtimov]

A hug! Hugs are nice too. Ike squeaks, but it is a delighted sort of squeak. And he hugs back.

[lifes_sake]

[You are adorable.]

(This particular use of the brainphone is a large fraction of its use cases, really.)

[newtimov]

[I am glad you think so!] says Ike. [You are really attractive, wow.]

[lifes_sake]

Well, the only appropriate response to that is more kisses.

[newtimov]

That is the best response. Ike is so pleased.

[lifes_sake]

Good. Pleased kissing: best kind.

[newtimov]

And Ike is very pleased, so it is very best.

[lifes_sake]

Cam is pretty damn pleased too. Cute boy, pleased kissing, all is well.

[newtimov]

They could be at this for a while.

[lifes_sake]

They could.

[So do you prefer this display of affection public? Because there are less-public rooms available in the space plant.]

[newtimov]

Ike considers this!

He says [Hmm,] and disengages from kisses so he can think about it properly.

And then he says: "Yes I think that is a great idea."

[lifes_sake]

"I wonder if the space plant knows where to send us. Hey, space plant, where is an unoccupied room with a door?"

[pythbox]

"There are many rooms like that under the main floor, reachable by stairs next to the archways," says the space plant, in the mode of the Speech used by unthinking objects when queried about their physical structure.