"- None of them have Lexis at all?"

"Nope."

"...Oh."

"Sorry."

"...And there are lots of you."

"Yep," he says. "Three of 'em have brothers."

Lexi puts her elbow on the table and her chin in her hand. "Oh."

"My type don't get along with our families so well, though. One of me didn't even meet her brother until they were both dead."

"Wait," says Lexi, "what?"

"Oh, the Bells took over Hell a while back," he says cheerfully. "Tidied the place up a bit."

"The Bells. I guess that sounds like something my Bella would do, if she could," muses Lexi.

"Don't it just?" he agrees.

"Yeah, she's been learning to, like, conjure food, so she can teleport to Africa or wherever and make big heaps of it for the starving orphans and whatnot, but probably Hell would be more important if she could do something about it, yeah. Did all however many of them just run into each other here and then do that?"

"More or less."

"Oh. Kinda sucks none of them are here now, Bella would flip."

"Kinda does, I guess," he says agreeably. "Bet she'll find the place eventually, though. And then they'll throw a big party and load her up with all kindsa nifty magic."

"Well, that's good, I guess."

"Nifty magic is fun," he says cheerfully.

"I guess. I went flying last night and Bella forgot to tell me I could run out of mana and so I did and I fell right out of the sky but Brilliance fixed me so I guess he doesn't hate me completely, or he likes Bella more than he doesn't like me."

"If he is one of me, betcha he doesn't hate you," says the Joker. "My bunch doesn't hate easy."

"Well, he kind of - some of him kind of - it's really complicated but basically I got possessed and it was sorta him but sorta not and then, well, Bella called it being 'catty'," Lexi shrugs.

"Okay, but, I don't know how much people are like other people who look like them," Lexi says.

"What is he like?"

"He's, I dunno, Bella likes him, he likes her," shrugs Lexi. "He likes food, he was made by some people to destroy planets but he didn't want to."