"One time, okay, it was just - I wasn't planning on two of my alts having married two of his and four more dating them, okay?"
"You didn't tell me!"
"No, I didn't, it was just going to be a one-off, and for the love of sunshine and rainbows don't spread it around any farther, okay?"
"I won't, but the Joker totally knows."
"Ugh."
"Well, not for sure, but he suspects, and not just because most of you are doing most of him."
"I think your grammar implies a little too much."
"Whatever, you know what I mean," laughs Lexi. "So what're you going to do?"
"I," says Bella with dignity, "am going to think."
And she teleports to a spot in midair, high up to the point of being a speck in the sky above Forks to any grounded observers, and she murmurs "flight" as she begins to fall, and she stands in place in the air.
And she thinks.
+Brilliance?+ she asks after about half an hour.
"She's not completely better, but Kas found her and got Amariah and Amariah got the rest of us and we got her adequately detached from her demon-and-dragon and gave her slightly off-standard perfect recall and she should be able to unbreak herself the rest of the way," says Shell Bell.
"We interrupted your Bell in the middle of lunch with her dad and one of her friends," says Shell Bell, "so we're waiting for her now. And the others will be along soon. We always throw a party when we find new Bells and this looks like a good place."
"She's Earth-based but she's not stuck there," says Brilliance. "I found this planet for us to practice magic on, and then when the Joker showed up he copied it into the solar system for fun. We're on the copy."
"Oh, so that's where he went, he didn't show up to the heap. Who'll be along in a sec, you'll be pleased to know."
"Hi," says Aurora, appearing with Lexi and bowls of macaroni and cheese, one of which she offers to Brilliance, "you must be the elf one and one of the one who's not easily visually distinguished? I decided to go by Aurora."
"The elf one is going by Sarion and I'm Shell Bell," says Shell Bell. "Do you want to set up here for a party or have it somewhere else? We could just as easily meet everyone back at my palace. Who's your friend?"
[Hey,] he says, [some Bells showed up!]
"So, you - want your sister in on everything?" she asks Aurora.
"She's got enough Charlie in her to not care about everything, but I am not sneaking around behind her back if that's what you mean, I trust her," says Aurora. "And sure, let's have a party on this here planet, can you set up, I don't know the guest list."
"Sure," says Shell Bell, and presently a setup not unlike the first Bell party on Mars decorates Planet Rainbowsand, although Shell Bell doesn't put out bowls of triangles and squares.