"Sherlock did get rid of Steph for a while," says Soph. "...Should I not have said that, is that horrible to say?"

"Slightly horrible."

"Well - he got her back!"

"That's good?" she says. "I guess? I'm torn between wanting to know why he did it in the first place and - not actually wanting to know that ever."

"Okay, well, let me know if you decide?"

"Will do."

"I don't know the whole story but I have the general idea. Anyway. Hey, is it weird that you all have different numbers of little sisters but you know they'd line up? I don't even know what would happen if somebody else's version of Mom and Dad decided to have another kid, if it'd be a me, but if it would be a me I don't know how I'd feel about that."

"I don't think it is very weird," says Yseult. "I don't think any of us had met Ariel when Maman and Papa had Hyacinthe, though. Perhaps it would be different if we had."

"Jane said Samaria was out six years so probably the littler cherubs are partygoing age now?"

"I think so," says Damaris. "They know Things now."

"Is it offensive or anything to say cherubs, rosebuds, etcetera? That's just how Bella collectivizes you guys with the sisters."

Damaris shrugs. "It's sort of cute," she says.

"I don't mind," says Yseult.

"I am perfectly okay with being an etcetera," says Helen.

"Well, you don't need a collective word, you aren't a collective."

"Yep."

"I wonder what kind of collective you would be if you were one though."

She shrugs.

"Amariah's nickname doesn't really suggest anything the way 'Angela' and 'Rose' do," hums Soph thoughtfully.

"It's weird that they're all named after their Bell, anyway," says Helen. "Most people have multiple parents. Aren't Rose and Beast's kids really more like - rosecubs?"

"I think that is cute," Yseult declares.

"Rosecubs! Awwwww. I dunno, does 'Kas' mean anything?"

"A witch goddess," she says. "Kas Petaal. She's the only goddess with a male aspect."

"...Demigod? I dunno, is the thing they call Amariah that the Alethia title department needs to be fired for also supposed to be a kind of god, because then you wouldn't be very demi-..."

"I am okay with being a demigod," she decides. "And an etcetera. I don't think people have deified my secret mom; not explicitly, anyway. Maybe I'm a - something about myths? Because one of my parents is a legendary figure and the other one's named after a goddess? Well, Amariah is the name of a goddess too, but she didn't call her daemon Lytess or anything, it's not quite the same."