[Thanks, everybody,] says Bella, later, to the local Jokers. [That was the best date venue ever.]
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It is a bit later when Bella tells Queenie, [We are not going to be dating anywhere else but we're not doing sexual exclusivity.]
gunpowdergelatine
Several days later, Queenie brainphones her.
[Hey, you don't mind if I give Ripper an agony beam type thing, do you?]
bellfounding
[If it just works on you guys, that's fine; on general principle I don't think it should do for arbitrary targets.]
gunpowdergelatine
[...mmmmnot quite what I was thinking,] says Queenie. [Arbitrary consenting targets work for you?]
gunpowdergelatine
[Great,] she says cheerfully. [So we're gonna borrow your boyfriend for a while now.]
bellfounding
Bella presumes that fun will indeed be had. She goes back to sorting her list of dead people, and makes a catacomb-like structure that will hold them all on the far side of Titan from her palace.
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The catacombs are now full of dead people - an arrow proved able to produce thirty thousand and change - and she now has a small department of suitably empowered staff who can check that they have places to go and that their loved ones are ready for them and transport and wake the dead accordingly. J helps. Bella steers for the first couple of days, but by the time Ripper is returned to her she isn't quite so busy anymore.
[Wanna go ice skating?]
[Wanna go ice skating?]