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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?
campanas
she_sells_seashells
"We come from a lot of different worlds, some of them more different than others. There's a standard Bell backstory, but even where it can't appear in full for world-based reasons, bits of it appear. There are similar things for Sherlocks and Tonies and all the other repeats we've seen."
ferratus
"All of me are almost basically the exact same," says Tony. "Yours is the first girl one we've found."
she_sells_seashells
"Alt," corrects Shell Bell. "One of us has a twin, but she doesn't look like us!"
allthebrightest
"I can see why Kanim had trouble explaining you. You should explain you instead," Tony announces.
she_sells_seashells
"Besides this one who doesn't have a nickname yet, there are a dozen of us!" says Shell Bell. "We're each from a different world. I'm Shell Bell and my world is called Atlantis. One of your daughters found a door into an interworld hub called Milliways and met my girlfriend there. When Bells meet each other Bells we swap magic powers and acquire very long to-do lists."
thaumobabble
"Technically, yes, but I'm still getting the safety lectures and so on," says Bella. "As for a nickname, I don't know, how about 'Glass'?"
ferratus
"Yeah, when 'Tony' and 'Sherlock' don't cut it, I'm Screwdriver and she's Pearl," says Tony.
allthebrightest
"You're a me? Wow, you're totally a me," says Tony. "Um... what if I can't think of a good nickname?"
she_sells_seashells
"None of them could," says Shell Bell dryly. "They wound up deriving ideas based on their coin colors."
thaumobabble
Glass nibbles her lip for a triangle in a dozen colors of stained glass, all mosaicked together.
"Ooh."
"Ooh."
she_sells_seashells
Shell Bell makes a square of her own, shows it off, and spends it to produce illusion coins in the princesses' colors.