She leads her alts and Jellybean to the door, opens it, leads them all through.
"Last semester Celo found the bar - it was on holiday, he was allowed to be naked - and we met Etty and Nona," says Bella, shutting the door. "Do you know them?"
"Nope, not yet. You didn't go up to the bar, or was this due to time-screw-uppedness before the founding of the Belltower?"
"It's not a glamour, it's my enchantress's aura!" says Aegis, grinning, hopping into the air, and twirling effortlessly. "If you do enough enchanting you get one. We all have them. They do different things. Amariah's makes her witchy and tells everybody not to touch Path, Cam's makes him all honest-looking, mine does - moving, basically, two different ways. I'm Aegis," she adds. "And there's ten more! Plus this one and - which was the Bell, Etty or Nona? And however many more we haven't found yet."
"Etty was the Bell. Nona was her - Joker, I guess - girlfriend. I guess I need a nickname?"
"Yep," says Cam. "I'm lucky, I got to keep my regular nickname because I'm the only boy one so far."
"You should've seen the look on my face when I found out there were eight more of Jellybean. And now there are more than that within peal reach," snorts Cam when he observes this smile.
"So what's this world like? Is it a fantasyland, I'm getting a fantasyland vibe if nymphs are a thing that exists."
"The most common place for Bells to come from are variants of Earth, but there are some from farther-flung locales, with more or less magic."
"Or none, Angela's from a nonmagical world and not the Earth in it. But it has an Earth, and Glass's world, or Sarion's, don't."
"This is definitely a magical world. I have no idea how a non-magical one would even exist," snorts Aether.
"Some of us do pretty well!" says Aegis cheerfully. "Jane's the next best thing to minting and she's not magic at all, technically!"