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

[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.

[carillons]

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

[pina_colada]

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

[carillons]

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

[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."

[carillons]

"Does everybody know about magic there?"

[pina_colada]

"Most people. Not literally everyone, but it gets closer every day."

[carillons]

"That must be nice," she says. "Magic is a secret in Samaria."

[pina_colada]

"Yeah, I've heard. You'll get there. It used to be secret in Aurum too."

[carillons]

"We will," she agrees, nodding. "But not for a long time."

[pina_colada]

"How old are you, anyway?"

[carillons]

"I am eleven," says Ariel.

[pina_colada]

"I think that makes you older than your alt, have you met her yet?"

[carillons]

She shakes her head. "I haven't. Have you?"

[pina_colada]

"Nope, I was looking for the one or the other of you and found you first."

[carillons]

"I'm not very findable in here," she says. "Did you have to look hard?"

[pina_colada]

"I looked for a while, but you were still more findable than Hyacinthe."

[carillons]

"I bet she is somewhere you wouldn't expect anyone to be," says Ariel.

[pina_colada]

"Maybe. Why's that?"

[carillons]

"Because I go places like that, and if you found me before her she's probably even less findable."

[pina_colada]

"Suppose so. Do you want to be alone, when you do that, or is it something else?"

[carillons]

"Not alone, exactly," she says. "But out of the way. There can be other people there if I don't mind them."