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

[pina_colada]

"That's me. And your dad would be Kas, presumably. I don't think I'd heard that he had kids."

[telesonorous]

"He has a kid," says Helen. "It's... a thing."

[pina_colada]

"A thing," says Kerron, scanning colorshapes. "What kinda thing?"

[telesonorous]

A thing she wants to talk about, apparently!

"Amariah was gone for something like sixty years while Jane was down. Kas really didn't take it well. He decided to have a kid, and he wished himself pregnant without really specifying, and I turned out to be me, and when she got back and I was me and thirteen Amariah really didn't like it."

[pina_colada]

"Ow."

[telesonorous]

"Yeah."

[pina_colada]

"I don't really know Her Majesty that well, let alone any of her alts - was the not-liking-it a huge thing..."

[telesonorous]

"Moderately huge? We're on speaking terms, and she didn't dump Kas or anything. But it's still pretty awkward."

[pina_colada]

"That really sucks."

[telesonorous]

"Yep," says Helen. It's possible that she would kind of like a hug.

[pina_colada]

So Kerron hugs her.

[telesonorous]

...Surprised and pleased, Helen hugs back.

"Thanks."

[pina_colada]

"You're welcome. I can do hugs, I learned from the best."

[telesonorous]

Helen giggles.

[pina_colada]

"How are you liking your first Bellparty?"

[telesonorous]

"It's pretty good."

[pina_colada]

"I was much littler than you at my first one, yea big," says Kerron, holding a hand above the floor. "Capering around being adorable. This is my sister's second, though."

[telesonorous]

This reminds Helen that she had vaguely planned to meet Kerron and his sister. She has now met Kerron!

"Did all the Jokers hug you?"

[pina_colada]

"There weren't as many of 'em back then, and they didn't all literally hug me, but they all crowded around watching me be a munchkin. They did all hug Aedyt when she first turned up to one, let's see if we can find her and introduce you." He starts looking around for his sister, or her colorshapes, whichever is easiest to spot.

[pumpkin_pie]

There she is! Next to the buffet, with Lily.

[telesonorous]

"I bet you were cute."

[pina_colada]

"I was very cute, and to cap it all off I got Mum to turn me into a blue fox. My sister's over there," he adds, pointing and leading Helen thataway.

[telesonorous]

"Well spotted!"

[pumpkin_pie]

As they approach, Aedyt is saying, "Pretty good, actually! I will definitely put a word in with Mummy if you run out and want to conjure more."

[pina_colada]

"What's good?" Kerron asks. "Aedyt, Lily, this is our cousinoid, Helen. Helen, my sister, and Lily of no relation - Emperor's little sister."