"Sure!"

"I don't mean exactly the format, but I mean that's the other example of someone writing about about a Bell who hasn't had a chance to do it herself," explains Stella, peering over his shoulder. "You probably at least want to identify yourself as a Whistle, even if you don't put anything else about you in."

"You can do that if you want," he says.

She shrugs. "Okay."

"Why don't you want to, Sue?" asks Angela.

"'Cause I don't," he says inscrutably.

"I feel so enlightened."

"Are you going to tell Aegis about this place?" Stella asks.

"Oh, she'll probably figure it was just a dream if he does," says Angela.

"Sure I will," he giggles. "It's an awesome dream."

"I can just see it. 'Hey Aegis, I had a dream where I met two more of me and two more of you, and they were paired off and one of the pairs was even engaged and pregnant, and one of the yous was an angel and the other was a space empress who lives on Mars, and they had me write about you in a book in a room they keep for copies of you and their friends to use!'"

"If Aegis knew there was a bunch of her, she'd want a room for all of you to meet in and stuff," he says. "She'd love it, I bet. Especially your crown, it's pretty," he adds, in Stella's direction.

"Of course she'd want a room for all of us to meet in. She's one of us, and we wanted it," says Stella, grinning. "Well, Shell Bell and Amariah started it, but same difference. You like this crown? I think there's a page of all the crowns extant in there, plus Amariah's prospective design for when she finishes her project."

"Hers she made out of magic rock I found," he says. "In the game. Not real magic rock. She doesn't have a real crown."

"Maybe she'll fix that when she's a little older."

"Or not such a little bit older. I'm willing to wait my turn," says Angela.

"Sure. But I don't think Aegis lives in a theocracy," says Stella.

"Nope," Sue confirms.

"In which case the pattern is that she'll take over the world after locating some treasure trove of applicable resources - maybe local, maybe not," says Stella, "maybe a combination - Amariah could've done it without my minting her but she'll be faster this way, Shell Bell needed the boost."

"Obviously," says Sue. "She's gonna take over something, that's for sure."

Stella laughs. "Is it that obvious, that young? I don't think I started talking about it until I was at least thirteen, and I wasn't particularly serious until I found my first wishcoin. But I suppose I didn't have close friends, growing up. I moved a couple times, I was too introverted."

"I have had close friends and have never moved, and everyone who knows me know I want to be Archangel," says Angela wryly.

"Well, look what she did to the game," he says. "Empress of the bird people. I'm even building her a castle."