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"I think I'd be better off learning your names one at a time," says Liselen.

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"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.

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"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.

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"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."

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"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."

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"All right, sounds like a plan."

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[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?]

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"Yes, please!"

There is widespread nodding.

"And pass on the question to the Jokers, if you would," Rose adds.
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"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.

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"Sarion's friend Magania thanks you for your very gracious invitation," says Magania, "but thinks that she would be lost among so many humans."

"Did somebody say party?" says Liselen.
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"We throw parties when we find new Bells, and now we have found two new Bells," says Stella, "you wanna come?"

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"Yes," says Liselen. "Yes I do."

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"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."

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"I will make this known to any who might visit here," says Magania.

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"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?"

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[Will do.]

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"Is that everything? Let's have a party," laughs Cam.

And all the Bells and Elspeth and Liselen disappear.
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