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It has been a couple of months now since the wedding, since the revelation about Jovah. Isabella has been busy. She is not as overt as some of her counterparts. It is not now impossible on Samaria to commit crimes of violence, for example - although anyone who gets going with one will tend to feel a sensation of being watched, and this is enough to noticeably ding reports of such misbehavior.
She's been noticed.
Linus has been calling all of the changes, collectively - because once one or two got overt attention the others were plain as day - "Jovah's hand moving among us".
Isabella is all right with the ship getting credit for her handiwork. It will be more accepted that way. No one riots over the god choosing to peer closely at them if they raise their hands to strike; no one theorizes about the appropriateness of meddling in the natural processes of things like childbirth when they believe Jovah is the active party.
Meanwhile she shadows Delilah. She makes routine visits to Monteverde to talk with Linus about this or that. (She can bring Micaiah, now that they're married.)
She gets steadily more pregnant. The heaviness is no burden to an angel, but it is somewhat physically awkward to be so bulky. She works around it. She's going to have a baby, and she just glows with it.
And, one day, for the first time since before the wedding, she finds Milliways in her and Micaiah's guest room in Monteverde.
"Oh, here it is, I was wondering when it would come by again," Isabella says.
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"She expects to succeed at things," Angela says, "when she really tries."
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"Still, she expects that if she means to strongly enough she will manage, and she may assume that you expect the same of her, and so she could suppose that if she fails you'll believe she didn't really try."
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"There you are, then. Let's see. Where does she come from? I'm trying to imagine what sort of world hers is."
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"...Well," says Angela. "That's cute, but it doesn't help me. The specific village almost certainly doesn't matter. I mean the world. The magic, the politics, the sorts of people who live there."
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"I've been trapped alone in a castle for a hundred and fifty years," he says. "I don't know much."
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"But, for example, you don't expect people to have wings. Things like that," says Angela, fluttering her feathers.
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"They're very pretty," he says. "But no. Of course, I don't expect people to have fur and fangs, either."
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"I was born with my wings," says Angela, "to a mother with wings; it's not any sort of magic."
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"Not very many. Shy of a hundred and fifty. But we're generally known to exist."
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One of Angela's wings goes around Micaiah, settling there comfortably. "One of us, nicknamed Stella, comes from a world with a form of magic that works by wishing. She's been able to share this magic with several others of us, including me. If I wish on a wishcoin -" She makes a little triangle, and shows it to him - "then what I wish for happens, as long as the wishcoin is the right kind. Triangles like this are for trivial little wishes. Turning you human took a pentagon."
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"You're sweet," says Beast. "Do you have any more advice for me, or can I borrow your husband now?"
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"I think I'd have to meet her to get any more specific," says Angela. "Borrow away."
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Micaiah leaps into them.
A moment later, they both disappear, still cuddling.
A moment later, they both disappear, still cuddling.
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Angela goes up to the Belltower.
She has a rather significant entry to insert.
She has a rather significant entry to insert.
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A little while later, Micaiah appears, looking slightly rumpled and very pleased with himself.
"He woke up," he reports. "Or disappeared, anyway. What's new with the Bells?"
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"Apparently there is an afterlife and it has got to go," says Isabella. "I am also advised in the strongest possible terms not to ever turn into a Sunshine vampire. Juliet has been minted, with some mishap. Awful things have befallen Shell Bell but she has recovered. Coins can apparently be made with as many as nine points."
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"I'm not sure I want to imagine that. But the Joker has made several and Stella wrote that she intended to see about her Alice and the staff mints."