Queen Marianne is not entirely sure what to think of all this.

"Hiya," says Aegis, twirling by and coming to a graceful stop. "You're alive! That's unprecedented. I think the others are planning to get their parents raised from the dead maybe eventually sometime."

"...Is that something that happens?" she asks, raising one eyebrow.

"Raising people from the dead? Yeah. When Jane's working, anyway. Shell Bell and Juliet and Pattern are all sort of dead."

"In that case," says Marianne, "I would like it very much if someone would fetch me my husband."

"Have to hook you up to Downside first, and I think we'd wanna make sure there's not a reason none of his alts are walking around, there's some people who're blacklisted and I don't have a Sherlock, I have a Joker, so I dunno if he's one of them."

"Who would I talk to about that?" she inquires pleasantly.

Aegis shrugs. "Juliet's got a Sherlock, Shell Bell's got a Sherlock, they'd know, or you could just ask your kids to ask Glass, Glass is a Bell and has the rights and privileges thereof and this is her world." Aegis peers quizzically at Marianne's circlet. "Unless she's, like, missing key ambitions on top of being uncharacteristically gay, there's always that possibility."

"Thank you. I am the Queen of the Enchanted Forest," she adds, in response to Aegis's puzzlement. "Glass is an extremely useful daughter-in-law."

"Aaaaah-hm. Golden has parents-in-law she gets along with, but I don't think they get to wear imperial jewelry."

"In this case," she says, "Glass married into royalty. Twice. So it is extremely appropriate for her to wear a crown on formal occasions. Tony made her one for the first wedding. Have you seen it?"

"Yeah, I did, it's pretty," says Aegis. "It's probably not gonna make any sense for me to wear a crown in the next few decades, I'm aiming at a democratically elected kinda title, it's a pity." She peers at Marianne. "You must be a good queen."

"I am," says Marianne. "And now I think I will go see my daughter-in-law about resurrecting my husband."

"Okay," says Aegis, and she spins off to find somebody else to talk to.

Marianne's daughter-in-law is over here, talking to Rose!

"Excuse me," Marianne says politely to both of them. Then to Bella, "I'm told you can now raise the dead?"

"I haven't done it yet, and it's actually Jane," (there is now a pale green Janegem hanging from the same necklace as Glass's power marble) "but yeah, I have the rundown on how it works."

"Then I would like my husband back, please," she says.

[I haven't met the template, but, my Tony invented intelligent life twice before his thirteenth birthday trying to get someone to love him back. I guess indifferent parenting isn't a hanging offense.]

[Mine aren't in any great hurry about theirs. They'll be in the general queue, not jumped. Not so much indifferent parenting as their having been dead for a while and having nowhere obvious to go. The thing you should know is that if this set comes with a Stane or a Snow or anyone like that, he's a no-rez.]

[No.]

[Are you kidding? You can do that? Do that right now!]

"Just tell him I'm looking forward to seeing him again. The rest can wait," she says.

"Okay. Jane, if you don't mind," Glass says to her new gem. "King Howard Stark, died eleven years ago."

"Oh, by all means," says Howard, "take me to the party."

Yoink!

Glass waves tentatively.

"I brought my Renée back as soon as Jane returned, and her reunion with Charlie was not so seamless," Rose remarks to Glass, "alas."

Glass smiles faintly, and notifies her wives and offspring that a certain someone has returned.

Marianne takes her face off her husband's face long enough to say, "Thank you very much, we'll just be—" and then she pulls a thread of forest magic and the pair of them disappear.

[...Nevermind, they've gone. I imagine they'll be back eventually.]

Tony giggles over brainphone.