will you marry me?

[small_magics]

When the party has been going on for a few hours but no one has left yet, everyone is called into the main room. (The dragons will have a sufficient view if they prefer to perch at the outer doors.)

Angela has worked out a ceremony that will satisfy the involved parties, a reworking of standard Samarian traditions with some revised wording and adjustments for the fact that the groom inhabits two bodies. This ceremony, unlike the elven one, doesn't involve any jewelry.

And then Sarion and her beloved are married. Again.

Comments

[thaumobabble]

"I don't suppose you know what it could be - or have a guess? It'd have to be something that applies to several worlds, including two that weren't initially hooked up to Downside and one that still isn't - but be world-flavored per person..."

[carillons]

If he's looking for an eleven-year-old angel, he might find one tucked into a roomlet on the main floor level. But she is quiet enough and still enough to be easy to miss, even with those bright white wings.

[pina_colada]

He's got pretty keen vision. "Hey there! Are you Ariel?" he inquires.

[pythbox]

"Yep," he sighs. "So - I mean, I don't just want to give myself a bigger censor bar, because maybe there's somebody who'd be okay with what I've got but doesn't want to see me without it, right? I want it to have levels. And just settle at where everybody wants it. And maybe be less obviously censor-y than a big black square. Little cloud of magic fog, maybe?"

[carillons]

"Yes," says Ariel. "Who are you?"

[pina_colada]

"I'm Kerron! I'm your cousinoid - one of the Joker's kids."

[subtly_artistic]

"I'm not sure if fog would be an improvement for anybody, but it probably wouldn't make anything worse."

[ending_of]

"...I do have a guess," she says. "But the thing I am thinking of doesn't come in quantities as far as I know."

[thaumobabble]

"What is it?"

[pythbox]

He shrugs. "I think it'd be an improvement for me."

[subtly_artistic]

"Then that seems like an obvious win."

[ending_of]

"There is a... place," she says. "At most one person per world is able to go there. Once someone is able to go there, they do not stop being able. I have been there once. I did not like it. I will not be returning."

[thaumobabble]

"...Yeah, that doesn't obviously sound like it comes in amounts. I don't want to ask Callahan and if Lissa knew I think she would have brought it up."

[pythbox]

"Yeah." Snuggle. "Now I guess I just have to figure it out and then cast it. It'll probably be too big to cast by myself, especially since we don't know if fucking up an enchantment could actually kill me."

[ending_of]

"Some of the people I met there could be said to embody their respective universes," she adds. "Others could not, at least not obviously, and I would say no such thing of myself. I believe they all shared my ability to observe any part of my world to which I might direct my attention, but I did not confirm it before I left. It was long enough ago that recalling specific details about individuals would require more effort than I care to apply."

[carillons]

"I haven't met any cousinoids yet," says Ariel. She smiles.

[thaumobabble]

"Hmmmm. Why didn't you like it?"

[subtly_artistic]

"I could do it, or you could channel it through some other Joker."

[pina_colada]

"Well, you've got a bunch. Alts of your sisters and me and my sister and since you're also a Bell kid the Chronicle little princesses count for you even though they don't for me."

[carillons]

"That's a lot," says Ariel. "I think I'm okay with seeing you one at a time. What's it like in your world?"

[pina_colada]

"I'm from Aurum. We're the world with the vampires and the werewolves and the witches."

[ending_of]

"It was... unaesthetic," she says.

[thaumobabble]

"This place sounds interesting even if it's unrelated to shininess; what else can you tell me about it and the people in it? Without the," Glass waves, "excess effort, anyway."

[ending_of]

"It did not have a fixed physical reality."

[pythbox]

"Mm... another Joker, I think," he says. "Jellybean made me the censor bar; I wanna make this one myself."