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Bella very carefully checked just how firewitchy her firstborn was before letting her do anything with hot glass - healing spells or no healing spells, getting burned is reportedly not fun - but now Carinna's allowed to play with the gooey warm stuff as much as she likes, provided she is careful not to get it under her fingernails where it would be hard to get out again. It's better than clay. It glows pretty - Carinna isn't firewitchy enough to heat it up again if it cools, but she can stick it in the fireplace and then pull it back out again whenever she likes. She sits on the floor next to Bella in Bella's workshop. Bella's making lenses. Carinna's making - something.
She thinks it's a pretty something! She holds it in place, covered in fingerprints and glowing bright, till it holds its own shape, and then she gets up and carries it out the door and runs around looking for Grandma Marianne. Where's Grandma Marianne?
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she_sells_seashells
Shell Bell considers that statement, fails to derive firm conclusions, and decides to wait for the local Bella.
thaumobabble
The local Bella appears presently. She's trailed by Kanim, and she's quite bewildered. "...Hello?"
she_sells_seashells
"Hi! I'm Shell Bell. I'm an alt of you from another universe. There's eleven more of you and me in other worlds. One of your kids found a door to the interdimensional hub and spotted my girlfriend."
she_sells_seashells
"The place Kiawen found a door to is called Milliways, but it's no longer the only way to get from place to place," says Shell Bell. "One of us brought in a -" She glances at the architecture. "...Distributed person, who can inhabit objects, like, this," she indicates her Janegem, "and move anyone she can see from such an object to anywhere she can see from such an object. We've also got a couple of shareable kinds of magic, both of which are really powerful with certain loopholes abused. You're not the only one with kids but you're the only one with a Sherlock and kids, so far. There's me, the one who brought in wish magic, one who's a witch - not of your kind; cats are not involved - and one who's an angel and one who's a vampire and one from a world with different vampires who was a vampire Slayer and the one who brought our distributed friend and one with no distinguishing features yet and the one who brought in enchanting and a boy one and an elf one and a sorceress one with a twin sister."
thaumobabble
Bella peers at Shell Bell, then reaches into her hat for her spectacles and puts them on.
She reels back and yanks them away from her face.
"I want," she says, scrubbing at her eyes, "to know how you did all that."
She reels back and yanks them away from her face.
"I want," she says, scrubbing at her eyes, "to know how you did all that."
she_sells_seashells
"Wishcoins, mostly," says Shell Bell. She lets her aura out; it's happy, excited. "This feature's enchantment-based though."
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"I'm not getting much. I felt the - enchantment thing," says Kanim, "but everything else must be - really efficient, if I can't get a sense for it."
she_sells_seashells
Shell Bell giggles and starts giving her the rundown of the powers she is about to receive.