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

[tearingup]

"So," says Ripper, "Pat mentioned you might like to borrow me."

[lifes_sake]

"Well, I'm presuming if she said that you come highly recommended. It looks like for a limited time only you might also be buy one get one free."

[tearingup]

Keth snorts.

Ripper glances sideways at Keth, and then starts giggling.

[lifes_sake]

"Intra-template telepathy? I thought that was just Sherlocks."

[tearingup]

"Nah," says Ripper, "you just reminded us of somebody for a second there."

[lifes_sake]

"In a good way?"

[tearingup]

"Mmm..." says Ripper.

"Yeah," says Keth, "we'll go with that."

[lifes_sake]

"I do prefer to be pleasantly reminiscent. Pleasantly everything, for that matter."

[tearingup]

"You're certainly pleasant to look at," says Keth.

[lifes_sake]

"So are the both of you. I had heard that Juliet found you hilarious but had no warning that you were this attractive."

[tearingup]

Ripper laughs. "You should've asked Pattern, then."

"Or Amariah," Keth says cheerfully.

"Want a closer look?" says Ripper.

[lifes_sake]

"I definitely do. You wanna get a room?"

[tearingup]

"We definitely do!" says Keth.

[lifes_sake]

Excellent, then all of them can be teleported to a room, right? How about now? Here is a room.

[tearingup]

The Rippers laugh.

"Usually we like a little more warning with the teleporting," says Ripper.

"But we'll let it slide this time because you're so pretty," says Keth. Hecate leaves his shoulder to approach Grace.

[lifes_sake]

"I am very pretty, I'm glad you noticed."

Grace hops off Cam to a convenient daemon-sitting place.

"Ah, fair warning, Grace doesn't really talk to anybody except me, even other daemons," Cam remarks. "Not like Path. She'll snuggle up, though."

[tearingup]

"Fine by me," says Hecate. "Kit's not talkative either."

She snuggles up.

Keth and Ripper give Cam extremely similar speculative looks.

[lifes_sake]

Cam stands open for speculation. He spreads his arms and takes a step forward. And regards them openly, the one and then the other, like he's going to be giving an extremely sexy presentation later on their point-by-point similarities and minor differences.

Grace doesn't say a word, but she does laugh softly and put a wing over the smaller bird.

[tearingup]

Hecate snuggles comfortably with Grace.

Ripper says, "I think this would be more fun with fewer shirts," and he and Keth take theirs off.

[lifes_sake]

Cam's is wished away before theirs are over their heads. Poof!

"I think you are absolutely right."

[tearingup]

The Rippers gaze at Cam admiringly.

[lifes_sake]

It's mutual.

Cam steps forward again. There is now personal space overlap. Isn't that exciting?

[tearingup]

"Fewer clothes in general, really," says Ripper, and this time they use wishes.

[lifes_sake]

Cam follows suit, laughing, and closes the distance with a randomly chosen Ripper (he winds up with the one who most recently spoke) and kisses him.

[tearingup]

Mm, kisses. Reasonably familiar kisses!

Keth steals a turn at the first available opportunity.