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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.
"Perhaps for the time being I will go by Sarion in this company. I might think of something better later, I might not."
Magania nods once to all of them, gravely, and leads them out of the cave.
"Where are we g- I mean, it would interest me to know where we're being led," says Pattern.
"It occurs to me that there is a clearing in front of Isibel's home where we might all sit in comfort," says Magania, "since the weather is very fine today and it is unlikely to rain. I can also brew tea there very quickly, since it is where I left my tea-service when I came to this cave."
"It's beautiful here," says Belle, reaching out for a tree branch that obligingly bends to brush her fingertips.
Aegis lets her aura out too, since it will keep her drink in its glass for her while she dances along the path. (It will also casually remove the effects of gravity from her hair, which doesn't puff out as though staticked, but does float.)
"It's not a bad walk, no reason to teleport," shrugs Amariah. She habitually keeps her aura out too; it's easier than reminding everyone she meets not to touch her owl, and she does like looking all witchy. "Besides, it is super pretty."
"Speaking of walking, Sarion, you're not tripping," observes Cam. "Like, at all. Is that an - I suppose that could be an elf thing."
"I once tripped often. These ribbons make it easier not to," says Sarion, indicating the bows around her knees and ankles. "Perhaps you have better solutions."
"Yeah, that's a pentagon, you want me to wish it up for you?" asks Stella, apparently less concerned with avoiding questions, at least when speaking directly to Sarion and not Magania.
Stella's one who wears her aura out all the time, and it hiccups a little, a micro-flare of magicmagicmagic, when she extracts a coin to wish away Sarion's dose of Bell clumsiness.
"It soothes my heart to know that Isibel's... other selves... are all so helpful," Magania remarks.
"We are super helpful," agrees Amariah. "My boyfriend was the one who found her, he was so sad over her - he's one of her demon-and-dragon like we're ones of her - and he called me in and we all met up at Shell Bell's to figure out what to do. It was the obvious thing, I mean, she was broken, we had to fix her, she'd do the same for us if it was one of us and we needed her."
"I thank Leaf and Star for your kindness," says Magania. "And for whatever magic you have wrought to leave Isibel so... whole."