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]

"Now that you mention it, I think it is non-optimal!" says Ike.

[lifes_sake]

Cam decides that shirts can be removed the long way around on this occasion.

[newtimov]

Ike supports this decision fully! Or he would, if he knew Cam had made it. He is definitely pleased about both the outcome and the process, anyway. Also it has been a long time since he has kissed Cam, and he is going to fix that now.

[lifes_sake]

Mmmmm shirtless kisses.

[newtimov]

Yeeeees.

(Ike's ribs are indeed angled funny, and his spine is human in general curvature but not in the shape or placement of individual vertebrae. It's not something you'd notice with his shirt on, but it's pretty obvious now. He is mostly not self-conscious about it; it's not like the fact that he's part demon is news.)

[lifes_sake]

Cam has an only-mildly-academic interest in all these shapes. He will investigate them a little.

[newtimov]

...ooh.

Ike gets kind of squirmy when thusly investigated! But in a good way. With grinning.

[lifes_sake]

That is good. Cam does check periodically to make sure that the squirms are good squirms.

[newtimov]

They continue to be that. Yes. Definitely positive.

[lifes_sake]

Good, good.

Eventually there is a natural lull in the proceedings during which the snuggle to nibble ratio is rather high.

"Have you formed an idea what you wanna do here?" Cam inquires lightly, putting a lock of hair behind Ike's ear.

[newtimov]

"Not exactly..." says Ike. "I mean, I definitely have a general idea, but I am lacking in specific ones."

[lifes_sake]

"What is your general idea like?" (He nuzzles the side of Ike's neck.)

[newtimov]

"It involves the same broad category of thing that we have been doing for the last... hour or so? I have completely lost track of time."

[lifes_sake]

"Hour and eleven minutes."

[newtimov]

He giggles. "You're handy."

[lifes_sake]

Cam walks one of his hands up Ike's chest. "Yep."

[newtimov]

He giggles harder.

[lifes_sake]

"I could break the question into smaller bits if that helps. For example, should we continue wearing pants?" (Nibble. It's really cute when Ike is distracted, okay?)

[newtimov]

"You are distracting me on purpose," Ike accuses, giggling.

[lifes_sake]

"Yes. Because it causes adorableness."

[newtimov]

Ike attempts to glare, but there is too much giggle.

[lifes_sake]

Cam kisses his nose.

[newtimov]

Ike squeaks.

Then he kisses Cam's nose right back, so there.

[lifes_sake]

Cam beams.

And says, "Pants?"

[newtimov]

Ike contemplates pants.