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When Shell Bell opens the door to Chronicle, she gets the attic Kiawen first led her to. In she steps, trailed by Juliet, Aurora, and Agent Honey.
There is a pink fluffy creature in the attic, with pink batlike wings and a round fluffy body and four small paws arranged in the usual quadrupedal manner.
It lands on top of Shell Bell's head, settles in, flops its wings out to either side, and goes 'wheep'.
It lands on top of Shell Bell's head, settles in, flops its wings out to either side, and goes 'wheep'.
she_sells_seashells
"Well," says Shell Bell. "That's very cute."
[Glass, Steel, Iron! How long has it been here?]
[Glass, Steel, Iron! How long has it been here?]
cross_and_bow
[She's not,] agrees Juliet. [We're here by virtue of Shell Bell's aura. As long as we can't communicate freely and this is the only unJokered universe without at-will, independent access to Milliways, thought we'd drop in and see if you need a coin infusion from Aurora. Or anything else.]
she_sells_seashells
[After this I'm going to see if my aura will get me a door to 'wherever that new Bell was supposed to be from', in which case it'd be nice to have Glass along to take a look at the place and see if she can see what might be the matter that way, but it might not work.]
calendarofcrime
[I strongly suspect it is a fluffbat,] says Steel. [Its name is Sunrise and it belongs to Tanalin.]
thaumobabble
[Why don't you come out to the parlor, bat and all? There's not very much point to hurrying, I don't think.]
incanted
[Sure. We brought a Matilda, there turned out to be one in my world - you might want to sweep for templates, I checked for a bunch after I met Agent Honey and found a Rainbow Libby, who'll be going by Beth.]
And the visitors, bat and all, teleport to the parlor.
And the visitors, bat and all, teleport to the parlor.
withmypowers
"Goodness," says Agent Honey. The moonstone pendant around her neck shimmers.
thaumobabble
"Hi! Yep, you're a Matilda all right," says Glass. "I also think the girls' friends from Toure-en-Marsh are some sort of template but I haven't seen them before."
cross_and_bow
"Oh hey yeah, I have a set of those," says Juliet. "I was going to bring them to a party but it just hasn't happened yet. Ike and Val. Mine're older."
thaumobabble
"I think being a template is contagious, actually," says Glass. "Not invariably, but significantly."
thaumobabble
"Yes. You didn't catch it - you were 'already' a template. I think Kanim caught it, though, for all that we haven't found more of him - unless we have?"
cross_and_bow
"Not so far as I know. We'd've recognized him. Although in other news I have retroactively acquired a slightly younger sister." And she repeats the story of Soph.
withmypowers
"You have such interesting lives," Agent Honey observes. "And fascinatingly varied magical systems."
thaumobabble
"I know, right? You've got -" Aura, magicalmagicalforestymagical - "the Rainbow kind, and Wellspring, I guess you stopped there on your way here?"
incanted
"Yep. Me and Juliet are in progress for Wellspring, nothing sticking so far."
thaumobabble
"Yes, please! I was going to set that up before Jane broke."