"Doesn't look familiar," says Shell Bell, "but there's a first of everyone."
She reels back and yanks them away from her face.
"I want," she says, scrubbing at her eyes, "to know how you did all that."
"Wishcoins, mostly," says Shell Bell. She lets her aura out; it's happy, excited. "This feature's enchantment-based though."
"So much so," says Shell Bell, and she kisses her Sherlock on the cheek.
"You're carrying more power around than any dozen dragons," says Bella frankly.
"I'm not getting much. I felt the - enchantment thing," says Kanim, "but everything else must be - really efficient, if I can't get a sense for it."
"...Ten minutes ago," says Bella, "I would've said - everything."
Shell Bell giggles and starts giving her the rundown of the powers she is about to receive.
"I am! These two rescued me and Tony from the Cave of Unpleasant Surprises a few years back, now I am just sort of around!"
"Then I asked Bella out to dinner but she is gay! And then Tony hit on me. And now I am - sort of around! I give the littler princesses magic lessons periodically when Bella is too neck-deep in politics or they're curious about something more my specialties than hers."
"No! You're the only one. I'm straight-with-a-special-circumstances exception. Cam is bi. Amariah says 'daemons don't count'. Otherwise across-the-board straight."