"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.
Lexi hugs him with all appropriate enthusiasm for a unicorn-loving teenage girl who has just met a real live example.
The other Bells distinguish themselves for her.
When the Jokers are all ready to be transported, Jane deposits them, including the dragon if he wants to come within range of her eye in the Atlantis palace.
The demon immediately finds and hugs Sarion.
"Oh my god he's stark naked!" shrieks Lexi. "Why is he stark naked!" She hides her face behind Liselen.
"It seems that Aurora's sister is distressed by your disdain for clothes," Sarion murmurs, leaning her head on the demon.
"I can totally compromise on it just being pants!" says Lexi from somewhere behind the unicorn.
He conjures himself some pants, loose comfortable ones in a slightly darker shade of red than his skin.
"Thank you," says Lexi, peeping out from her hiding place. "Also you totally look like a devil version of Brilliance, did you know?"
"There should be, like, a photograph of him standing with the angel, though," says Lexi, "I think that should happen."
"I am a demon," he says. "And a version of Brilliance, if you are Brilliance," with a gesture to Aurora's Joker.
"I set up the usual array of rooms," says Shell Bell pointedly, "if anyone feels the sudden urge to go be naked and isn't conveniently a quadruped."
"Well," says Aurora, looking around as Jane lands more guests in the pavilion, "let's get this party started."