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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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[I know, but - the other characteristic Voice had was not wanting people to look at them.]
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"Nathaniel, are you scared? You don't need to be scared, they're nice," murmurs Angela.
"Yes, angela," he murmurs, and reluctantly comes out from behind her wing.
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"Shell Bell's just like me, only she's from a different world and has had a different life," explains Angela. "If that makes sense."
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"Didn't we decide that was a silly question as long as you're awake and can do things?" asks Angela.
Nathaniel frowns in puzzlement, but doesn't say anything.
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"I died," Shell Bell explains for Nathaniel's benefit. Ostensible benefit. "Sherlock brought me back, and I'm all right now, but I did die."
"Oh. I'm sorry," he says softly.
He nods.
jovahs_heiress
"For the last few months he was rehearsing with a children's choir for the Gloria, but that's just concluded, so the choir has disbanded - Nathaniel, is that what you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Yes," he murmurs.
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"Have you thought about where you want to go next?" prompts Angela.
He looks nervous.
"I'd like to stay at the Eyrie, if... if that's all right."
"I'd like to stay at the Eyrie, if... if that's all right."
jovahs_heiress
"I think that will be fine. It's not uncommon for angels to move one or two in-laws in, and you are that." And she finally notices what is up with her counterpart. "Shell Bell, are you okay?"
Nathaniel looks very nervous.
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Shell Bell makes an awful face, mostly at her lap but distinctly about Nathaniel, and she mutters, "I'm going to the Belltower," and disappears.