Bell and Sherlock haven't worked up to star-manufacture yet, but Bell has a couple dozen declawed "starter" stars from Stella in that shimmery black color that Alice makes. (Sherlock's coins are a pale pearly grey. Shell Bell thinks they are much prettier.) She uses several of these to place revised versions of Stella's ground rules - on Earth, and on the Moon - and then one to scoop up the whole Capitol and put it quite literally on the Moon.
She is even kind enough to hexagon everyone who lives in the Capitol but is not there at that moment back into their homes before making the transfer. (People who do not live in the Capitol but are there anyway she wants to investigate. Most of them will probably go home without incident. Some of them may be... problems.)
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"Shall I go make an appointment for a week's time with your secretary?" Bell asks.
"Yes," says Coin. "That would be helpful."
"Can do."
Bell goes and makes the appointment (meeting with Empress of Atlantis re: hiring agreement) and then fetches Sherlock and teleports them back.
"I'm going to design a crown," she says brightly.
"Yes," says Coin. "That would be helpful."
"Can do."
Bell goes and makes the appointment (meeting with Empress of Atlantis re: hiring agreement) and then fetches Sherlock and teleports them back.
"I'm going to design a crown," she says brightly.
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"Oh yes. I've had about five years to think about it, after all," she says, grinning.
She closes her eyes and calls up all the fleeting mental images that she can remember now of sea-gems and shapes and colors. She discards most of the early ones, and fuses the others together, and -
Square.
"What do you think?"
She closes her eyes and calls up all the fleeting mental images that she can remember now of sea-gems and shapes and colors. She discards most of the early ones, and fuses the others together, and -
Square.
"What do you think?"
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[I wonder if I should start referring to you as my Imperial Consort?] muses Bell, kissing back quite happily.
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Bell starts with the design of her own crown, and sleekens and simplifies and shrinks and smooths and sharpens - and squares, and places the result on Sherlock's head with a kiss.
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