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[...Right. Remind me never to go to one of those meetings. I'd fucking punch someone.]

bellfounding

[And you wouldn't believe how people get about immortality, especially religious groups.]

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[Oh, do tell.]

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[I'm depriving life of its natural meaning, I'm going to slow down science and politics because conservative theorists and ideologues won't shuffle off the mortal coil in a timely manner, I'm depriving people of reasons to have faith in something greater than themselves, I'm the literal Antichrist, torching is snake oil and I'm encouraging people to behave unsafely, resurrection obstructs a healthy mourning process and how dare I interfere.]

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[Ooh, are you the Antichrist?]

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[No. I can't wait to hear what kind of results Juliet gets when she starts working with humans as well as demons, though, she has an aura of menace and also fire.]

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[...She can turn it off, can't she?]

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[She can, she probably will, but it'd be funny if she left it on to talk to the local Pope, wouldn't it?]

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[Hilarious.]

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[She was all nervous about it when she first got it, but she got to like it.]

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[Is there another story there?]

bellfounding

[Yyyyyes but it's not for general audiences. The abridged version is that she comes from a world where vampires lose their souls and this has behavioral consequences, and she got murdered, and turned, and there were behavioral consequences, and the one of her that's running around now is just the one from Downside so she doesn't have continuity with the vampire her but she still feels bad.]

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[All right.]

bellfounding

[Hmm, Bell stories, Bell stories... any requests?]

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[Nothing springs to mind; I don't think you've left any major loose ends dangling that I remember...]

bellfounding

[There's a funny one about how Glass got engaged.]

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[All right, let's hear it.]

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[So Glass lived in this little house in the Enchanted Forest, which is the name of a kingdom which is both enchanted and a forest. And the Sherlock and Tony from her world - Steel and Iron respectively - are princesses of it, and they show up and introduce themselves to her cat - cats belonging to magic-users in Chronicle are smart, but only their people can understand them when they talk - and she meets them and they invite her to come back to the castle with them to look at a magic thing, 'cause Glass is a magician, she's the most magic-geeky of any of us and we're all kinda magic-geeky.

[So they go hiking through the forest, and they're talking about how the princesses are supposed to be on a quest to find a husband because they need at least one kid between them to inherit the throne, right? And Glass is like 'husbands, not really my area, I am gay as a rainbow that is only attracted to rainbows of the same sex' and Iron keeps flirting with her and Glass mentions that it's probably a minor technical problem to figure out how two women could have kids, and by the time they get to the castle, they're both engaged to her contingent on their mom the queen allowing it.

[And they go up to their mom, and say, 'We found this magician and we want to marry her!' and their mom was like 'well, what's her name' and it turned out that Glass had not introduced herself and Iron and Steel hadn't asked her name the entire time they were getting to know each other and deciding they wanted to get hitched.]

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...

He cracks up.

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[So Glass introduced herself and the queen said she could marry one of them and if she could get that one pregnant she could marry the other one too. So she married Steel and knocked her up and married Iron too and they have each emitted one kid now, one a little older than the other two.]

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['Emitted',] he giggles.

bellfounding

[Yep. Three girls. There are eight kinds of Bell kids and so far they're all girls for some reason - I mean, Glass has a causal reason, the magic just worked that way for when it's two moms.]

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[Eight kinds?]

bellfounding

[Yeah. Glass's three are unique so far - the other ones with Sherlocks and Tonies don't have kids. Angela has four, Rose's two match the older two of Angela's, and Golden has one with Edward.]

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