The Joker smiles and waves jauntily.

"So," says Bella, patting Brilliance on the head as she walks past him into the house, "these other mes, without Lexis, with wings and assorted genders and stuff - what do they do?"

"Whatcha mean?" he asks, ruffling Brilliance's hair as he follows.

Brilliance trails after them.

"Well, they have fancy wish magic, yeah? Tell me about what they do with it."

"Stella made herself a space empress and opened a colony on Mars. Golden was an empress already, she doesn't use it for much. Pattern's got a colony set up in Saturn but I'm not sure if she's taking immigrants yet. Angela's bossing around her god. Not sure what the rest are up to. Oh, and they took over Hell, think I mentioned that before."

"Brilliance -" Bella maneuvers and hugs him. "Brilliance, what's wrong?"

"I met one of you," he sniffles, "I didn't really know what the hell happened, but - she had one of me and she said she had to bond with him to save the world and he reads her mind all the time and she's fucking wrecked."

"She says he sleeps as much as he can 'cause he doesn't do it then, and he tried to kill himself but she loves him too much to let him."

"It happened this morning, I wanted to wait until you were home, and then - " he gestured to the Joker, "he happened."

"These other mes," Bella asks the Joker, "with their fancy magic, could they get to her and help her? How much freedom of movement do they have, I assume it's not infinite or I'd probably have gotten a visit on some key birthday?"

"They can get to any world they've been to. Had some success hopping to worlds they haven't, but they can't just knock on the door and say 'show me a Bell I haven't met yet, please'."

"But - the specific one that Brilliance met - the one who's disintegrating in the head, god -"

"Maybe they could find her. Maybe not. We'll find out when we catch Milliways again and I go get 'em."

"Yeah," he says, "I wish I had too. But now we gotta play the hand we're dealt, and there's no rushing Milliways. Bells've tried. It'll show up when it feels like. All we can do on this end is keep opening doors."

Bella chews her lip. "...Okay. So Disintegrating Bell is stuck until one of us finds the place again. What else can we do that's productive?"

"I can mint ya," says the Joker, gesturing between Bella and Brilliance. "You too," he nods to Lexi, "if you want. Then you get to make wishcoins. Triangles do itsy bitsy wishes, squares do bigger ones, pentagons do medium-sized ones, hexes can get some serious shit done, and upward from there you start running into trouble if you don't know what you're doing." He bites his lip sharply and displays the resulting square. "Coins're made of pain."

"Pain? Oh, geez, tell me there's a loophole, or are you trying to tell me that if I were an only child I'd also be a masochist?" winces Bella.