[I'm home,] she announces to everyone who's likely to wish updates on her whereabouts.
Juliet holds herself very small.
This doesn't actually affect the vengeful hellgoddess of flames and danger effect that pours off her when she lets her aura out; it's been built up more than enough to override body language.
She withdraws it after a second.
"Stella called it an aura of menace," she mutters.
She might be letting the teeniest bit of it peep out.
All the auras react to emotional state, if their enchantresses let them. It turns out a happy aura of menace likes to wrap itself around its enchantress's loved ones and snarl at the rest of the world. Not that Juliet can tell, from the inside.
"Ours are all different. We don't even know what Stella's does. And some of them we only know some of it - they mostly seem to do two things apiece, so, Shell Bell does water but we don't know what else, like I do the menace and the fire. If you want one, there's a lot of Saturn left, I'm sure Pattern would let you put in a new wing. Or I could think of something for you to do here if you give me long enough. You'd have to arrange for a channel though."
"Somebody to funnel the enchanting through. Enchanting hurts, but as a side effect, not a fuel source like for minting. You can do it yourself but you have to maintain control of the spell at the same time so it's not a great idea. We were all using Jokers."
"You'd have to ask one. I imagine Jane would happily transmit the request. I borrowed the eponymous Joker, since Golden didn't want to use him - they do have the drawback of finding the entire thing sexy and that discomfited her so she got Eights out of Downside instead, don't know if you met her at one of the parties."
Bella withdraws the aura. "I didn't like it at first, but it's growing on me," she says. "Stella calls it an aura of menace. You know I did almost literally come out of a Hell recently, right? I can show up in a place that till the other day thoroughly earned the name and implement policy changes."
"Auras are supposed to be convenient," says Bella. "Maybe that's why I have this one. They don't all match. Angela got so angely that Shell Bell almost cried. I bet it would freak people out to have me and Angela obviously working together with our auras out."