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Isabella has read the guestbook. Stella began her work slowly because others in her world had magic and could have used it against her. Shell Bell began her work abruptly and openly because she had a government to depose.
The angel Isabella has neither problem. No one will oppose her. She herself does not oppose the Archangel Linus, who is doing a perfectly serviceable job. And anything she does will be taken as Jovah's own miracles until and unless she announces herself. She is willing that credit for her thought and design and for Micaiah's tithe in pain go to Jovah, who permits them to wield this power, who ought to be shown that she can control the magic, that she's not in it for glory.
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manofmyword
"Well, I don't know your name," he says reasonably. "What do you want me to call you?"
jovahs_heiress
"My Belltower nickname is Angela," she says. "My real name is Isabella. Either's fine but the first will be less confusing if you're going to mention the other Bells."
jovahs_heiress
She shrugs. "It's still a little weird to me. We've met Kas and Alice but everything except for lap-sitting went on behind closed doors."
yovahs-kisses
"We're just hugging," laughs Micaiah, although there is enough lipstick on his face to give him the lie.
yovahs-kisses
He giggles, and disentangles himself from the Joker long enough to give his angel a hug.
jovahs_heiress
She hugs him back, with wings. (Her wings are not Pathalan; she doesn't have to warn everyone she meets first of everything that they're not public property. Strange kids where she does intercessions run up and pet her all the time and she often just puts up with it then, instead of explaining.)
yovahs-kisses
"Snuggly," he sighs. "I love you. I'm gonna go fuck this guy, okay?"
jovahs_heiress
"That's fine," says Angela. "I'll wander a bit and then check in at the Belltower; do you want to meet there or just go home separately and assume we'll be back at the same time to tell Rinnah and Charles?"
yovahs-kisses
"Mm, meet at the tower, I think," Micaiah decides. He disengages from the hug.
jovahs_heiress
"I - think I'd rather not," says Angela. "I'm not particularly huggy in general. And I wouldn't put my wings around a stranger anyway if that's what you meant."
yovahs-kisses
Micaiah has an idea.
He turns it over in his mind a little, and then very carefully makes a wish.
And then he hugs the Joker, and wraps iridescent black wings around him.
He turns it over in his mind a little, and then very carefully makes a wish.
And then he hugs the Joker, and wraps iridescent black wings around him.
jovahs_heiress
- Angela blinks.
"That's - not permanent, is it?" she asks. "Is it just the wings or are you all the way an angel - two angels can't - we're not Nathan and Magdalena -"
"That's - not permanent, is it?" she asks. "Is it just the wings or are you all the way an angel - two angels can't - we're not Nathan and Magdalena -"
yovahs-kisses
"I can go back and forth!" he assures her, demonstrating. "And my clothes change when I do, to make room for the wings."
yovahs-kisses
"Of course not!" he says. "Just when I'm here."
And he hugs the Joker again.
And he hugs the Joker again.
jovahs_heiress
"Okay. I'll meet you at the Belltower," says Angela, and she goes a-wandering through the bar on her way to the stairs.
manofmyword
Micaiah and the Joker wander in that direction, too, but they take a different route and end up on a different floor.
Micaiah's new optional wings are very, very snuggly.
Micaiah's new optional wings are very, very snuggly.