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"Is magic allowed in single combat?"

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"Good question," she says. "Please don't find out the hard way."

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"I'll let you do the talking," Shell Bell agrees.

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"Thank you."

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Shell Bell sips her milkshake. "Is there a lot you'd want done as long as I'm there? Should I bring my girlfriend along? I can't make more significant magic without her, it's actually kind of a problem, the last time I met one of my alts I couldn't pass along the nifty magic because I was all out of coins from meeting the last one before that."

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"I think fixing the bridge is pretty much it," she says, shaking her head.

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"Okay." Sip sip. "I want to go check the Belltower in case there's anyone there, but then I'll be happy to go back to your world - unless you're waiting for something or someone here?"

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"Nope! Just hanging out with my best bud," she says, patting the hammer at her side.

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Shell Bell finishes her shake, teleports up, finds the tower empty and nothing new in the book, and teleports back down. "Shall we?"

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Darcy likewise finishes her mead.

"Let's!" she says, and opens the door.
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Shell Bell goes through, looking for someone to ask to hold it for them.

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How about the tall woman with the ponytail and the spear?

"Sif!" says Darcy, waving. "This is Shell Bell, I found her in Milliways, she says she can maybe fix the Bifrost, do you want to hold the door for us so we can go talk to Heimdall about it?"

"You have the most interesting friends," Sif says dryly, coming to take the door from them.
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Shell Bell waves and smiles but doesn't talk, because she's not sure if this counts as one of the people Darcy is being diplomatic with for her or not.

(She has quite forgotten that she illusioned up a crown - she'll remember if reminded, of course, but it's slipped from her attention without the weight on her head to remind her.)
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"Thanks," says Darcy, and she turns to Bell. "Can you take us straight to the end of the bridge?"

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"Which end? I have to specify a unique location," says Shell Bell.

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"Sorry—there's only one end that's the end," she explains. "The other end is the beginning."

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Shell Bell laughs and teleports them to the not-beginning end of the bridge.

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It looks extremely broken. The jagged end of a beautiful slab of crystal, stretching out toward the stars.

There is a man in elaborate golden armour standing on the very end, gazing out into eternity.

"Heimdall!" says Darcy. "This is Shell Bell."

"I heard," says Heimdall. "Can you repair the Bifrost, Shell Bell?"

"You can talk to Heimdall," says Darcy. "He's cool."
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"Okay. I can certainly try to repair the Bifrost! There's not, like, more than one way for it to be 'fixed', is there? If there is then I have to know what I'm aiming at or my wishes get confused."

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"It stood here once," he says, gesturing to the empty space past the broken end of the crystal on which they stand. "Unchanging, for many thousands of years. You speak of a magic that is not known to me, but if it needs only a clear example, it will not lack one."

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"It's good at following examples," says Shell Bell. She tries a pentagon, but it's not heavy-duty enough. She tries a hexagon. There it goes. "All better!"

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Heimdall chuckles.

"Great," says Darcy, and impulsively gives Bell a hug.
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Shell Bell is all for hugs!

"Will Sif mind waiting with the door while I go see if your Tony here is worth talking to? I barely ever find a door, if she lets it close I might wait a year and a half before I could go home."
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"Tell you what," Darcy suggests, "take me back to it and I'll hold it for you."

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"Okay," says Shell Bell. Teleportation occurs! "Do you want me to put you on the brainphone so you can let me know from here if you get sick of standing in one place?"

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