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Bella very carefully checked just how firewitchy her firstborn was before letting her do anything with hot glass - healing spells or no healing spells, getting burned is reportedly not fun - but now Carinna's allowed to play with the gooey warm stuff as much as she likes, provided she is careful not to get it under her fingernails where it would be hard to get out again. It's better than clay. It glows pretty - Carinna isn't firewitchy enough to heat it up again if it cools, but she can stick it in the fireplace and then pull it back out again whenever she likes. She sits on the floor next to Bella in Bella's workshop. Bella's making lenses. Carinna's making - something.
She thinks it's a pretty something! She holds it in place, covered in fingerprints and glowing bright, till it holds its own shape, and then she gets up and carries it out the door and runs around looking for Grandma Marianne. Where's Grandma Marianne?
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campanas
carillons
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Tanalin crawls out from under the table, stands up, and puts her hands on her hips.
"You found us extra parents," she accuses. "Did we not have enough of those already?"
Tanalin crawls out from under the table, stands up, and puts her hands on her hips.
"You found us extra parents," she accuses. "Did we not have enough of those already?"
campanas
Kiawen grins, tags her on the shoulder, and runs away, whooping.
she_sells_seashells
"I'm sure you have plenty of parents," laughs Shell Bell softly. "We're not exactly that."
she_sells_seashells
"We," says Shell Bell, with half an eye on the local Sherlock to gauge her reaction, "are alternate versions of your parents, from another world. There's lots of us, actually. More of me than anybody - the Bella who's your mom will be the thirteenth we've found."
she_sells_seashells
Oooof course. Shell Bell would like a peek at that conversation. And she has an avenue for same.
sicaria
Pearl's brain gives the impression of not very much happening very very quickly.
Cricket wanders into the room.
He peers at the scene.
He meows loudly, and when Shell Bell doesn't answer him, he goes up to the resident princess Sherlock and bats at her knee with one paw.
He peers at the scene.
He meows loudly, and when Shell Bell doesn't answer him, he goes up to the resident princess Sherlock and bats at her knee with one paw.
calendarofcrime
"Kiawen has found us extras," says Sherlock, kneeling down to offer Cricket scritches. "I am sure Bella would be much obliged if you would let her know that interesting things are going on in the kitchen."
Cricket peers suspiciously at Shell Bell, and Other Sherlock, and Other Tony, and trots off.
she_sells_seashells
Shell Bell considers that statement, fails to derive firm conclusions, and decides to wait for the local Bella.
thaumobabble
The local Bella appears presently. She's trailed by Kanim, and she's quite bewildered. "...Hello?"
she_sells_seashells
"Hi! I'm Shell Bell. I'm an alt of you from another universe. There's eleven more of you and me in other worlds. One of your kids found a door to the interdimensional hub and spotted my girlfriend."
she_sells_seashells
"The place Kiawen found a door to is called Milliways, but it's no longer the only way to get from place to place," says Shell Bell. "One of us brought in a -" She glances at the architecture. "...Distributed person, who can inhabit objects, like, this," she indicates her Janegem, "and move anyone she can see from such an object to anywhere she can see from such an object. We've also got a couple of shareable kinds of magic, both of which are really powerful with certain loopholes abused. You're not the only one with kids but you're the only one with a Sherlock and kids, so far. There's me, the one who brought in wish magic, one who's a witch - not of your kind; cats are not involved - and one who's an angel and one who's a vampire and one from a world with different vampires who was a vampire Slayer and the one who brought our distributed friend and one with no distinguishing features yet and the one who brought in enchanting and a boy one and an elf one and a sorceress one with a twin sister."
thaumobabble
"...I'm the magician one. With a cat. Who married princesses," says Bella.
