Pattern has returned home, and reintroduced herself to her parents with much weeping and hugging and explanations, and she is sort of living with Charlie again (Renée's Jacksonville place does not have a room set up for her).
But she's also made herself a pretty palace on Titan. She has deliberately not matched the Atlantis or Eos palaces, nor any of the capitol compounds on Aurum. Her palace is a spiral-twist tower of pale lapis lazuli and surrounded by a dense and ivied garden of magically blued plants and water features bubbling up out of kyanite structures. She's apparently picked a theme color and run with it, although not everything is blue (there is trim in white agate framing the windows and the edges of the outer spiral wall, and a stripe of pale jade waterfalling down one side; only the traditionally green parts of her plants have been blued, so the flowers and the resident hummingbirds and butterflies are every color).
This palace (she calls it "Tethys", after an aquatic Titaness) - specifically the open bottom floor, which has more than enough room to host a Bellparty if Pattern is ever called upon to do so even if the peal and its associated escorts quadruple in size - is where everyone will be meeting before descending upon Saturn above/below to enchant it into a habitable colony world.
She conjures up a big whiteboard with the spells she and Sandy have worked out and a division arrangement so no one is enchanting on top of each other, and she tells Jane to tell everyone that she's ready to receive them.
Apparently nothing will do for this news but for Amariah to return to Origin and teleport to her sweeties and hug them.
[It didn't touch Beast and he was right next to me being my channel at the time. Shredded the fuck out of me, though. Like somebody put my brain in a blender and then lit it up with a flamethrower.]
[That's certainly. A vivid description.] Pattern passes this information to Jane for general propagation to the peal.
[Have you all got torching installed? I can just do that right now in case someone else slips up,] Amariah offers.
[Thanks!] says Ghosty, as spokesjoker. She flickers over to Beast and occupies him comfortably.
Amariah returns to her sweeties and kisses them both and says, "I'm going back home. I'll see you when you're auraed up to your satisfaction."
It settles out that at any given moment, the numbers of Jokers enchanting, channeling, and taking breaks are all roughly equal. Queenie does the most enchanting out of all of them; she is therefore the first one to get a little bit of aura. It's not as powerful as the Bells', but maybe that's just because the Jokers are taking it so much slower. She gets back to casting.
Stella comes by to visit her Alice once it's clear that this is going to take a while.
"Hiiiii," he says, wrapping his arms around her and showering her with kisses. "I love you."
"Fun! Fun is how," he asserts. "Queenie's got a little bit of a something, but nobody else has got shit yet, last I checked."
"You might have a little bit," Stella says. "I'm not quite sure. What do you think you'll get for your specialty stuff? I still don't know what mine does."
"Yep!" he says brightly. "So, I'm about up for a break, you wanna go fuck somewhere?"