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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
thaumobabble
[Okay. I'm not short of local magic, anyway, I can probably scale it up really well with just a few judicious wishes.]
she_sells_seashells
"Okay, but don't get too involved in anything," says Shell Bell. "It's traditional when we find new Bells to throw a party!"
she_sells_seashells
"It tends to depend on how closely spaced the parties have been. The last one was when Jane came back online and that was a couple months ago, so we can expect a majority of the invitees, coming up on ninety people, one of them is a dragon. If you don't have a good place to put the party someone else will be happy to host. Not everyone's gotten a turn yet since by the time we threw the first Bell party there were already eight of us."
campanas
Meanwhile, Carinna has decided that Grandma should know about these extra children she has acquired. "Graaaaandma!"
campanas
"Grandma, there's extras of Sherlock and Bella and Tony in the kitchen from another world."
"That," Marianne says gravely, "is surprising."
She pulls a thread of forest magic and arrives in the kitchen.
She pulls a thread of forest magic and arrives in the kitchen.
thaumobabble
"Hi, Marianne," says Glass. "Apparently there are many universes and versions of us appear in several of them. This is Shell Bell."
pleasantsurprise
"Is this becoming a family thing? This looks like it might be a family thing. I can leave."
sicaria
"The kitchen is getting somewhat crowded," Sherlock observes. "Perhaps now is the time to move us all to that meadow you mentioned."
"Fire-flower Meadow? Are we expecting a significant number of guests?" asks Marianne, her hand hovering by a thread.
thaumobabble
"There are a lot of me. Them and all their friends will want to come meet me and my friends," says Glass. "It's not necessary to host the resulting party in this world instead of one of theirs, but as long as we can..."
"Then let's," says the queen. She glances around to make sure she has everyone included, and then pulls on the thread.
she_sells_seashells
"I can set up if you like," Shell Bell says to Glass. "Nametags and rooms and stuff. Oh, these flowers are pretty."
thaumobabble
"Very, but they'll also set people on fire if you step on one," says Glass, "usually before an event they just all get picked."
she_sells_seashells
"Oh, but that would be a shame, they're so decorative," says Shell Bell, "I can take care of that too."