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

[pythbox]

"What's a vampire?" she says interestedly.

[pina_colada]

"Species from Aurum. Really fast, really durable, really strong - Aianon beat my dad arm-wrestling but it was close - and made out of humans, with vampire venom, takes three days if you do it the natural way."

[pythbox]

Sidanar's head pulls back and her wings half-open in startlement. "Your father nearly won a contest of strength with an Endarkened?"

[sailorheavymetal]

A startled dragon is an impressive sight. Darcy is impressed.

[pina_colada]

"Yeah. With anybody but Aianon it wouldn't be close - Dad could pick you up easy. Might not be comfy, he's human-sized and you wouldn't have very well-distributed pressure, but he could do it."

[pythbox]

"...really?" she says dubiously.

[pina_colada]

"Yeah. Stand him up there, put a sling under you that wouldn't snap, he could pick you right up."

[pythbox]

She considers this.

"I don't think anyone's ever tried picking up a dragon before, except for another dragon. And even that's usually difficult."

[pina_colada]

"You're not really shaped for it. I just meant to indicate that vampires are very, very strong."

[pythbox]

"It worked," Sidanar says dryly.

[sailorheavymetal]

Darcy cracks up.

[pina_colada]

"So that's my dad, and my mum is a Joker like Ansharil and Aianon."

[pythbox]

"What species is she—? Human?"

[pina_colada]

"Yeah, pretty much, but she throws so much magic around I don't usually categorize her like that."

(Kerron just kind of runs with it when people pronoun his mum.)

[sailorheavymetal]

Darcy gives him a quizzical look, but, well, Jokers.

[pythbox]

"Human mages are still human, aren't they?" says Sidanar.

[pina_colada]

"Maybe on Thilanushinyel. At home you've got witches, who can be any species but only have single specific powers, and then you have imported magic, and pretty much everyone except my mum who has access to that stuff is not a human. Or at least was when I was growing up; there's Harley now, he's another Mum."

[pythbox]

"There are a lot of Ansharil and his Bonded running around," Sidanar observes.

[pina_colada]

"Yeah, loads, I think they're still second to Bells unless you count all the daemons or something though."

[pythbox]

"Has someone counted?"

[pina_colada]

"Probably, but oh, lemme see, if you count daemons you've got nineteen Bells, if you count daemons and Sue's fork you've got... twenty-two Jokers, actually, but if you don't count the daemons and Sue's fork they're tied at sixteen now that Felicity's been added on. He didn't come with a Bell. I guess you could count Shell Bell and Juliet one extra time each, they used to have forks and then merged, but the Jokers are still ahead unless you only count as few of both as you can justify."

[pythbox]

"I wonder what makes there be so many of people," says Sidanar. "It's odd, isn't it?"

[pina_colada]

"There aren't that many of most people. Only one of me or Dad, so far, just the two of you, etcetera."

[thaumobabble]

Glass appears unexpectedly, points at Kerron, says, "Green, he was right," moves on to the Darcies, and says, "Purples."

[sailorheavymetal]

"...Purple whats?" inquires Darcy.