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Everyone pops in. All the Bells, all the Jokers - except for the Joker, who is missing for some reason - and the Bells immediately, without having to speak, divide their tasks amongst themselves. Stella and Angela and Pattern and Cam start brainstorming solutions - not implementing them, yet, just generating ideas that might work depending on what they're dealing with. Golden, as the one who's actually had her mind read by a loved one - albeit under more controlled circumstances - is working with Shell Bell, the other previously broken-beyond-recognition Bell, on coming up with a plan to help walk Isibel through recovery after they fix this somehow. Cam eventually folds into this conversation from the other since he's the one with a talking notebook; if they can find Isibel's old books they might be able to turn them into something that could help more actively. Rose is peering into Isibel's mindscape, looking for visible damage that she can just heal directly. Amariah's popping back into Milliways and forcing the door to the elf's world so she can drop a Janepoint in the cave to keep it temporally synced, then coming back and joining Juliet and Aegis in interrogating the demon and the waking dragon about what exactly they have done to Isibel.
"I think I'd be better off learning your names one at a time," says Liselen.
"I'm envisioning us doing a sort of regular rotation to hang out with Sarion and help her patch herself back up the rest of the way, so I guess if you come visit you could learn us one at a time," Juliet shrugs.
"How about as we come off person-of-contact for Downside we go on person-of-contact for Sarion, with person-of-contact-ing involving visiting or not depending on what she's in the mood for?" suggests Stella.
"I'll take it, but that leaves whoever's person-of-contact for Downside before me a long Sarion shift, we should rotate that around or drop me to a normal-length rota."
"I don't think there's much ongoing reason to leave you with an unusually long shift. Plenty of us now have rather quiet worlds and when we're busy we've never had trouble covering for each other, and Jane can handle virtually everything on her own now."
[Shell Bell's aura does Milliways doors, turns out,] says Jane. [Sarion couldn't force it, but Shell Bell got it to take her to the world they had in mind without a coin. They're waiting for the new Bell to disentangle herself from her Charlie and some friend of hers now. You want to all go congregate on the planet they're waiting on?]
There is widespread nodding.
"And pass on the question to the Jokers, if you would," Rose adds.
"I bet you this turns into a party. Maybe Sarion's friend Magania wants an invitation even though all our friends are going to have almost as much trouble as we do with not asking questions," Stella says archly.
"Did somebody say party?" says Liselen.
"We throw parties when we find new Bells, and now we have found two new Bells," says Stella, "you wanna come?"
"Yes," says Liselen. "Yes I do."
"Well then," says Angela. "Shall we? Oh, and Magania - please don't disturb the object you were looking at in the cave. It's not exactly easy to break, but if it broke anyway, time would not pass at the same rate here as in the other worlds we look at, and by the time we came back it could've been any number of years and that would be inconvenient for Sarion."
"I will make this known to any who might visit here," says Magania.
"I don't think it ought to make the national news," says Aegis. "And Jane, if you see anyone looking at it funny, swoop one of us in, okay?"
And all the Bells and Elspeth and Liselen disappear.