"...And... you... are?" Kanim asks.

"Tony," says Tony.

"Kanim was at one time asked to be our Tony's backup husband option in case I didn't successfully manage the obvious succession issue," says Bella.

"Yes, and then I ran screaming from the room, let's not forget how I ran screaming from the room."

Tony laughs. "Why did you run screaming from the room?"

"Because if I'd bolted without explanation the queen might've taken offense?" suggests Kanim. "She scares me sometimes."

"...Queen. The queen? There's a queen and you're not her?" Shell Bell asks Bella.

"No-o-o? I wind up doing a reasonable fraction of her job, but she's, you know, still alive."

"The queen is my mother," says the local Sherlock.

"In what way?"

"In the way where our parents are usually dead by the time we're thirteen or so," says Tony. "And usually not royalty of any kind."

"I was thinking more of the first thing. The royalty part makes sense if the template attractor is more along the lines of 'rich and famous' than 'specifically for this list of accomplishments'."

"...Template attractor."

"We come from a lot of different worlds, some of them more different than others. There's a standard Bell backstory, but even where it can't appear in full for world-based reasons, bits of it appear. There are similar things for Sherlocks and Tonies and all the other repeats we've seen."

"All of me are almost basically the exact same," says Tony. "Yours is the first girl one we've found."

"Speaking of which, should I go get her?"

"Good idea!"

"Yeah, what?"

"I am at a complete loss to explain! But they're in the kitchen!"

She giggles, and kisses him, and goes to the kitchen.

Kanim follows her.

"Hi, honey."