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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
she_sells_seashells
"Alt," corrects Shell Bell. "One of us has a twin, but she doesn't look like us!"
allthebrightest
"I can see why Kanim had trouble explaining you. You should explain you instead," Tony announces.
she_sells_seashells
"Besides this one who doesn't have a nickname yet, there are a dozen of us!" says Shell Bell. "We're each from a different world. I'm Shell Bell and my world is called Atlantis. One of your daughters found a door into an interworld hub called Milliways and met my girlfriend there. When Bells meet each other Bells we swap magic powers and acquire very long to-do lists."
thaumobabble
"Technically, yes, but I'm still getting the safety lectures and so on," says Bella. "As for a nickname, I don't know, how about 'Glass'?"
ferratus
"Yeah, when 'Tony' and 'Sherlock' don't cut it, I'm Screwdriver and she's Pearl," says Tony.
allthebrightest
"You're a me? Wow, you're totally a me," says Tony. "Um... what if I can't think of a good nickname?"
she_sells_seashells
"None of them could," says Shell Bell dryly. "They wound up deriving ideas based on their coin colors."
thaumobabble
Glass nibbles her lip for a triangle in a dozen colors of stained glass, all mosaicked together.
"Ooh."
"Ooh."
she_sells_seashells
Shell Bell makes a square of her own, shows it off, and spends it to produce illusion coins in the princesses' colors.
allthebrightest
"...Red-hot iron, apparently," says Tony. She peers at Sherlock, and laughs. "And you're steel. Is there a Steel?"
she_sells_seashells
"Any ideas on how to turn yours into a nickname?" Shell Bell asks Princess Tony.
she_sells_seashells
"I guess you could go by 'Princess' for now? It's not perfect, you wouldn't be the only princess at a Bell party, but I think it wouldn't be that hard to keep your family and Elspeth straight, and if you can't think of anything else..."
allthebrightest
"I've got to have more identifying characteristics than that," she says.
ferratus
"You totally don't, there's a reason the rest of us named ourselves after coin colours."
thaumobabble
"So you're all blacksmith fire-witches who make flying armor?" says Glass skeptically. "Granted I don't know how to turn any of that into a nickname..."
she_sells_seashells
"Blacksmiths not so much - more engineers - low-tech here? - and what is a fire witch - and yes on the flying armor, Iron Man did that."