"I can tell," says the Joker. "Milliways'll come through. Could be a while, but it'll come through."

"How long have you been meeting Bells, if you have to wait a 'while' for doors every time? Is there even somebody worth meeting there every time?"

"Oh, now they've got Jane they can hop in and out whenever they feel like it. She hooks up all their worlds, Milliways and the afterlife included, and she can send people any which way."

"Oh. And I'm not hooked up yet."

"Precisely."

"Dang. Here's hoping Milliways likes at least one of us, huh?"

"Mhm."

"We can't just wish the world - let's call it Rainbow - into the system, I guess?"

"Try it," says the Joker.

"I feel like it might help if I knew more about how Jane worked."

"She's an internet-eating computer person who can move people between worlds if she's looking at the person and the place she wants to put 'em. The technical details are lost on me," says the Joker. "Think it's something to do with the way I used to go to Milliways in my dreams, though."

"Hmm." Bella shrugs, and tries a few wish designs on a few coin sizes. "No dice."

"Didn't think so. But there's no harm in trying."

"Apparently not. Do you need to crash here while we wait for a door? Because that would be harder to sell Charlie on than Brilliance was, I think."

He laughs. "I'll bet," he says. "Nah, I can find somewhere to snuggle up, don't worry about me."

"Okay, good. I hope you're not stuck here too long what with the adorable moppet at home."

"I love my munchkin," the Joker says fondly, and the air shows Juliet a scene of Kerron cuddling his mummy. "But I can live without him for a while. He'll still be there when I get back."

"I noticed the angel one is pregnant. Just how many of me have reproduced, if you don't count Jane?"

"Golden and Edward have a daughter named Elspeth. She's a sweetheart." The Joker illustrates her. "And Micaiah and Angela have a fetus, and I think that's it."

"...Elspeth looks about as old as Golden and Edward do," observes Bella. "Vampire thing?"

"Yep!"

"Nifty."

"It is!" he agrees.

"So how does enchanting work and how does it run on pain 'worse' than minting does?"

"Minting, you get hurt and you make a coin and then you can fix whatever hurt you and you're done," he says. "Enchanting, whoever's casting the spell needs to use somebody as a channel - if it's you, it hurts and you might lose control of the spell and kill yourself; if it's somebody else and they're into it, it'll hurt them in a way that sticks around afterward, and there's just not that many people willing to let you give them chronic pain problems so you can do nifty magic; and if it's somebody else and they're not into it, it'll give them nasty brain damage." He grins. "Us Jokers are all over channeling, of course."