"Well," says Cam to Tilly. "I wanna meet the other you, d'you wanna meet the other you?"

"Love to," says Tilly. "Let's go find her."

Cam laughs softly. "It didn't work on Shell Bell, is it liable to work on any of us other Bells?"

"No statistics either way," says Other Matilda. "I can always try it and see."

"Yes, please," says Cam, smiling. "Who doesn't like new forms of magic? I try not to go too long without meeting any new forms of magic."

"Voila," says Other Matilda, and Cam also levitates.

"Thanks!"

Other Matida also conjures each of them a laptop like hers and sends them the latest version of her collected resources on How To Magic.

Cam sits Grace on the conjured laptop and tells her to make friends.

"Is there something particularly funny about getting my magic-notebook-with-special-privileges-re-my-brain to do my reading for me?" inquires Cam.

"Yes," says Tilly.

"I think it makes perfect sense," snorts Cam.

"You have a different idea of fun than we do," says Matilda.

"I'm still going to learn all the stuff, I'll just have Grace help," says Cam. "She's my extremely customized curriculum generator."

"But if I just read it all directly myself, when would Grace get to have any fun?"

Matilda shakes her head. "That's between you guys, I guess."

Cam smiles. "So what do you do, Other Matilda? Is your world even named yet?"

"Wellspring," says Matilda. "You know, I think calling your Matilda 'Tilly' is sufficiently non-redundant that you don't have to call me 'Other Matilda' too."

"But I don't typically call mine Tilly, that's mostly Jellybean's thing," says Cam.

"And yet, we've picked our non-redundant names, and mine is not Other Matilda."

"Eh, for certain values of non-redundant. Fine. Matilda," shrugs Cam. "Is it that hard to think of nicknames? I could've come up with something besides Cam if more of me were boys."

"We don't actually like nicknames," says Tilly, with Matilda nodding agreement. "I just put up with 'Tilly' because - Jellybean."

"Jellybean's very persuasive," says Cam.

"I have no idea either," snorts Cam. "Bells are demonstrably able to cozy up to Jokers at nearly any age but I don't know about you guys."

"He is most definitely," upstairs gesture, "but he might be between R-rated acts and willing to extract himself, you want me to find out?"

"Yes please," says Tilly.

[Hey Jellybean, you wanna meet the Wellspring Matilda?]

[Not right now,] says Jellybean dreamily. [Maybe in a bit.]

"Jellybean is nnnnnot available at this moment," snickers Cam.

"What a surprise," says Tilly.

"I for one am astonished, who could possibly have predicted that after two months without access to any other Jokers that would be the first thing he'd do."

"Template thing," says Cam. "They're all like that. Bells vary more and the high end does nnnot keep up with Jokers for long."

"Well, we know two of you," Cam points out. "If the only Bells who'd ever met each other were, say, Stella and Pattern, I imagine they'd tentatively conclude low variance too."

The Matildas exchange a glance and a smile.

Cam tilts his head at a word from Jane. "Important peal business of some kind," he reports, "off I go." And he wanders to the growing cluster of his alts.