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.
"If you think that's weird, there's also the part where according to the same metacausality-detecting mechanism, I am gay because Sherlock and Tony are girls here."
All right then. "I might be able to produce more pronouncements but I think you'd have to actually be standing next to each other."
"If people are curious, I'm willing to open the relevant doors, although I think everyone who isn't in their own world should probably stick by me even though Jarvis should be able to let you out of Sunshine any time - I'm just not sure how to figure the time-syncing when it gets this complicated."
"Well, if we're gonna go traipsing through strange worlds, we should probably tell Mom and Dad first," says Val.
Eventually they have a list of everyone they'd be glad to have located if they located one, but it turns out Chronicle lacks any person known to the peal in a form yet unaccounted for.
He looks contemplative for a moment, then shakes his head.
"Mom says she doesn't want us leaving the universe."
"I don't suppose meeting in Milliways instead of going all the way to Sunshine makes a difference? If you can't leave the universe at all you won't be able to attend future Bell parties when Jane is back. Presuming she comes back."
"She would probably feel much better about it if she had more advance warning and also if leaving the universe was a thing people did more often," he predicts.
"I'd offer to see about bringing Sunshine's set to you, but without Shell Bell I can't easily exit universes without Jarvises and get into universes that aren't mine. I hope Jane is back soon. Glass, it sounds like you've been waiting longer than me or Aurora, let alone Shell Bell who hadn't even noticed when I forced her door."
"Yes, but it hasn't been so bad. I've had a lot to do. I've read through Rose's enchantment library, now."
Aurora laughs. "No, I'm precisely Glass's height. It's a kind of magic user from Rainbow. I actually don't know that much about the technical details of using it, because until I met Agent Honey the other day my only teacher was Brilliance, who wasn't really designed for teaching magic. But I assume we can conjure up a library at least as good as Rose's for Glass to play with. You will be hampered by the lack of Device, but maybe Jane will be back soon and Agent Honey can hook you up; she found a stray one that got along well with Lexi."
Icarin peers at Glass and Aurora as though trying to verify the assertion about their relative heights.
"We're all almost exactly the same height," laughs Shell Bell, "except when there's reasons for us not to be - Cam is taller, because he's a boy, I'm a little shorter because I didn't eat well growing up and Rose is between me and standard for similar reasons, Aegis is taller because she grew up in space. And if you count Angela's wings she's got a few inches even on Cam, but otherwise she's like everyone else."