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When Shell Bell opens the door to Chronicle, she gets the attic Kiawen first led her to. In she steps, trailed by Juliet, Aurora, and Agent Honey.
thaumobabble
"Hi! Yep, you're a Matilda all right," says Glass. "I also think the girls' friends from Toure-en-Marsh are some sort of template but I haven't seen them before."
cross_and_bow
"Oh hey yeah, I have a set of those," says Juliet. "I was going to bring them to a party but it just hasn't happened yet. Ike and Val. Mine're older."
thaumobabble
"I think being a template is contagious, actually," says Glass. "Not invariably, but significantly."
thaumobabble
"Yes. You didn't catch it - you were 'already' a template. I think Kanim caught it, though, for all that we haven't found more of him - unless we have?"
cross_and_bow
"Not so far as I know. We'd've recognized him. Although in other news I have retroactively acquired a slightly younger sister." And she repeats the story of Soph.
withmypowers
"You have such interesting lives," Agent Honey observes. "And fascinatingly varied magical systems."
thaumobabble
"I know, right? You've got -" Aura, magicalmagicalforestymagical - "the Rainbow kind, and Wellspring, I guess you stopped there on your way here?"
thaumobabble
Whee!
"Given that there's no need to hurry, how long would you all like to stay? The girls are fourteen and thirteen, now, and besides the fluffbat nesting on Shell Bell there's also two more ridiculously cute pets they acquired from a cave Kanim found; perhaps you'd like to meet Icarin and Valeria, I'm sure they'd think you were interesting. In any case I'll take the coin influx, if you don't mind, Aurora."
"Given that there's no need to hurry, how long would you all like to stay? The girls are fourteen and thirteen, now, and besides the fluffbat nesting on Shell Bell there's also two more ridiculously cute pets they acquired from a cave Kanim found; perhaps you'd like to meet Icarin and Valeria, I'm sure they'd think you were interesting. In any case I'll take the coin influx, if you don't mind, Aurora."
incanted
"Yeah, here you go," says Aurora, tossing an assortment in Glass's direction, "were you run down?"
thaumobabble
"No, I'm very careful with anything big - I'm just lucky I live in such a nice world. I was able to layer a few hexes onto some of my local magic capacities, which helps enormously, of course."
withmypowers
"I want to learn all about the local magic," says Agent Honey. "And the nonlocal magic, for that matter."
thaumobabble
"Oh, I should refer you to Kanim, probably, while I'm catching up with my alts. He's a magician just as much as I am," says Glass. [Kanim! Offworld visitation!]
And:
[Icarin, Valeria! Do you remember how I told you about my alts?]
And:
[Icarin, Valeria! Do you remember how I told you about my alts?]
