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

[cross_and_bow]

"An end to warfare. Such as the one that ended with Toronto destroyed so Tab had to resurrect it on a planet with giant trees."

[eversomuchfun]

"...That does seem reasonable," he concedes.

[cross_and_bow]

"I wouldn't have done it, but I can understand Tab not committing several murders of people she liked, at age twelve or so, in order to make a low-probability attempt at undoing it."

[eversomuchfun]

"I wouldn't have done it, but for purely selfish reasons," he says. "And because I wouldn't know what to do with an empire if I had one."

[cross_and_bow]

"If you ever find yourself in possession of a spare I'm sure you know someone who'd look after it for you."

[eversomuchfun]

He kisses the end of her nose. "You will be my first port of call if ever I need to get rid of an empire," he assures her.

[cross_and_bow]

"I'm so pleased."

[eversomuchfun]

"But I hope to keep from accumulating any in the first place. Saves trouble."

[cross_and_bow]

"I would imagine so. You get to live the cushy Imperial Consort life."

[eversomuchfun]

"Much better than trying to run the bloody thing, in my humble opinion."

[cross_and_bow]

"Isn't it convenient that we have these compatible specialties?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Extremely."

[cross_and_bow]

Kisses! Not particularly specialized kisses, but really, that is how they are supposed to work.

[eversomuchfun]

"I'm sure this thing was grown with a plentitude of comfortable private little rooms," he says, after there have been some kisses. "D'you want to go find one?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Ooh, what an idea." A pleasing idea, judging by the look on her face.

[eversomuchfun]

"Let's," he says brightly.

[cross_and_bow]

She kisses him again and teleports them to the nearest unoccupied private little room.

[eversomuchfun]

Where they will do private things, which Minnie will hopefully not supervise.