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It has been a couple of months now since the wedding, since the revelation about Jovah. Isabella has been busy. She is not as overt as some of her counterparts. It is not now impossible on Samaria to commit crimes of violence, for example - although anyone who gets going with one will tend to feel a sensation of being watched, and this is enough to noticeably ding reports of such misbehavior.
She's been noticed.
Linus has been calling all of the changes, collectively - because once one or two got overt attention the others were plain as day - "Jovah's hand moving among us".
Isabella is all right with the ship getting credit for her handiwork. It will be more accepted that way. No one riots over the god choosing to peer closely at them if they raise their hands to strike; no one theorizes about the appropriateness of meddling in the natural processes of things like childbirth when they believe Jovah is the active party.
Meanwhile she shadows Delilah. She makes routine visits to Monteverde to talk with Linus about this or that. (She can bring Micaiah, now that they're married.)
She gets steadily more pregnant. The heaviness is no burden to an angel, but it is somewhat physically awkward to be so bulky. She works around it. She's going to have a baby, and she just glows with it.
And, one day, for the first time since before the wedding, she finds Milliways in her and Micaiah's guest room in Monteverde.
"Oh, here it is, I was wondering when it would come by again," Isabella says.
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jovahs_heiress
sicaria
Sherlock... goes still.
She was already not moving a lot; now she is not moving.
She was already not moving a lot; now she is not moving.
Nathaniel flinches and edges sideways to put Angela's wing between himself and Sherlock.
jovahs_heiress
"I take it your project hasn't worked out, or I would've seen you before now," says Angela.
she_sells_seashells
"Yeah, not even the new ones can do it," says Shell Bell. "We'll have to think of something else or make do with Milliways alone."
Nathaniel continues to hide, silently, behind Angela's wing.
jovahs_heiress
"Nathaniel, are you okay?" asks Angela. "Do you want to go home? If you go out the door it'll be right when we came in and I'll be along in a second."
He doesn't say anything, but he does glance at the door.
jovahs_heiress
"You can go or stay, either one. One of the ways that this place is magical is that if you leave before me, I can still stay as long as I like and you won't have to wait more than a second."
"I don't want to be rude," he says softly.
jovahs_heiress
"People come and go as they like, insofar as they can," says Angela. "Although, if you leave, there's no guarantee you'll find a door again any time soon."
He sidles a little farther behind her.
sicaria
[I would like to know,] says Sherlock, [what about this person keeps making you nervous.]
she_sells_seashells
[I - don't know. It's only when he talks. He can't be more than ten, he's Angela's brother-in-law, I can't imagine why he'd scare me -]
jovahs_heiress
Angela's quite unaware of all this. "I'll certainly check the Belltower before I go, but is there any major news since my last?"
Nathaniel continues to hide.
she_sells_seashells
[I don't know. I can't be sure. They could just sound similar. Although come to think of it I don't like the way he's hiding.]
