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

[keyed_up]

Kissing Tony is Soph's favorite thing. (Although apparently watching attractive third parties kiss Tony would also make any multi-item list.)

[toblameforit]

Tony beams.

"Okay, let's do the roof."

Blanket! Big colourful thin-but-snuggly patchwork quilt, to be specific. It's the lightest blanket available and therefore the easiest to stabilize. Tony rolls it up and hoists an end.

"Somebody wanna take the other end so we can unroll it over the walls, and somebody else wanna lay down more pillows on top?"

[keyed_up]

"I'll take the end," says Soph, and so she does.

[toblameforit]

"Awesome! Over here," he says, hauling his end higher so they can carry the rolled blanket to the back of the fort.

[tearingup]

Ripper follows with some long flat pillows he judges suitable for pinning the blanket down atop the walls.

[keyed_up]

And then their fort is complete!

"I haven't made a blanket fort since -" says Soph, and then she stops and shrugs and flops on Tony.

[toblameforit]

Hugsquish!

[tearingup]

Ripper awws at them a little, and then crawls into the fort to test its coziness level.

"Cozy as hell," he reports. "I've definitely never made a pillow fort this awesome."

[keyed_up]

In goes Soph.

"It's kind of dark in here," she chuckles.

[toblameforit]

Tony follows.

"But snuggly!" he says, snuggling up between the other two.

[keyed_up]

Snuggles! "It is! Best pillow fort."

[toblameforit]

Snuggggggggles.

"Best pillow fort," Tony agrees.

[tearingup]

"Best pillow fort," laughs Ripper.

[keyed_up]

And also pretty best snuggles. Snug.

[toblameforit]

Snug! Mmmmsnug.

[tearingup]

"Now, I don't know about you two, but I know what I do with pillow forts when I'm done with them," says Ripper.

[keyed_up]

"What?"

[tearingup]

"Wreck 'em, of course," he says promptly. "Either with everybody inside, or in a huge pillow fight, or both."

[keyed_up]

Soph hmmmmms. Then she seizes a long foundational pillow and thwacks both of the boys at the same time.

[tearingup]

Cackling, Ripper pulls a pillow out of the wall on his side and hits back.

[keyed_up]

Wheeeeeeee pillow fight!

Soph is nearly as unfairly good at pillow fights as Tony is at driving-oriented video games. They might have to gang up on her.

[toblameforit]

So they do.

The walls of the fort are definitely beginning to sag after all three participants have pulled out their first weapons, but it's one of Tony's wild swings that thwacks against the ceiling and pulls one corner completely out of its supporting pillow structure. That end of the blanket settles gently down onto the combatants.

[keyed_up]

Soph immediately attempts to trap Tony in it.

[toblameforit]

He manages to escape to the fort's opposite corner, where the blanket is still anchored.

[tearingup]

Ripper covers his retreat.