"If there's no understanding without looking and they don't mind being looked at why don't Cam or Amariah?"

"People from Amariah's world have their own sort of particular intimacy, which may suffice for her. I don't know about Cam. Possibly it's relevant that the two of them are by far the most likely to follow suit with the behavior that has you so concerned," Rose suggests.

The Beast laughs.

"So I should try one of them?"

"Perhaps. I am sorry I cannot be of more help." She pauses. "And it might be unnecessary to extract these Bells' respective Jokers from their activities, considering that it turned out mon cœur had so little to say."

"I have no wisdom to offer about being a Bell in love with a Joker, ma belle, because I am not one."

"I thought you might be able to reassure me about prioritization, but apparently Rose has you figured out well enough to do that all by herself," sighs Aurora.

"Of course she is."

"I am," shrugs Rose, smiling. "I do recommend mindreading. It - helped."

"I guess I'll talk to Brilliance about that when he. Emerges."

"They're having fun, Aurora. He will still love you."

"He will always love you," says the Beast, hugging Belle again.

Snuggles!

"Okay," says Aurora, "so, we've established that you're adorable even when one of you is a cat monster, I guess that's non-negligibly helpful especially since mine turns into a deck of cards and a magic wand, and I should talk to Cam or Amariah. Thanks."

"You're welcome," says Rose sunnily.

Aurora goes looking for Cam or Amariah.

Cam's over there!

Aurora summarizes her project.

"Yeah, um." Cam scratches his neck awkwardly. "I might be a little less serious with Jellybean than the others with theirs? Like, he's my boyfriend, he tells me he loves me all the time, I'm not really there yet, he doesn't really seem to mind, so it's not like I'm entitled to have a problem with it if he tells Tilly he loves her too or if he gets up to bizarre things with tentacled aliens. Let alone screws his way through the deck of Jokers, because I did that too, it's worth a go if you're into it."

"I don't think so," says Aurora delicately. "I'd give you my blessing to tick Brilliance off your checklist too but it's manifestly clear you don't need it. Do you suppose Jellybean'd have input here? Beast didn't say much but then Rose reads his mind..."

"Dunno, let's find out." [Hey Jellybean, Aurora's having a polyamory soul-searching Very Special Episode, you wanna help her out?]

"Wait, do you guys do the anime magical girl thing too, I thought you were wizards?"