"Thanks. Yeah, I don't even remember being here before, the spell that made me couldn't figure out how to make memories of being anywhere besides Sunshine so I remember having this annoying magical affliction where I couldn't leave the world," says Soph, heading for the door, "or get wished on with anything bigger than a pentagon, because it couldn't copy those effects either, but now it is gone and I can go wherever."

"It is! I can teleport and stuff." Here is the door; here is the "backyard" of Milliways; here is the door to the bar, which Soph holds. "I'm not used to it so I don't do it as much as Bella - Juliet - calling her that is weird, her boyfriend calls her that - but it's really nice for sometimes."

"I don't know very much about individual Bells," says Helen. "What's your world like?"

"Full of demons. There's magic in it, but it's kind of gross mean magic, I tried a teeny bit - well, I remember trying a teeny bit - and it didn't work so I stopped, that's probably to 'explain' why Bella didn't have all kinds of magical resources around. She can't do Sunshine magic herself, her opacity is protecting her from it being gross and mean is the going theory."

"Is it the kind of magic everyone knows about or is it a big secret?" says Damaris.

"The demons all know about it! Humans mostly don't."

"What's a demon?"

"That's a kind of a catchall term for anything on Sunshine that's not a human and is smart. Vampires count or don't depending on who you ask. Most of the demons are from other sub-worlds originally."

"There's so many that you need a catchall term?"

"Oh, yeah. Thousands."

"Thousands, really? Wow," says Helen. "And nobody notices? Do they just - not interact with humans who don't know already?"

"Sometimes they interact with humans who don't know already and usually what happens next is the human dies."

"Oh," she says. "Yeah. That'd do it."

"Yeah. There are some nicer demons. The Sessiaki are supposed to be neat, I haven't been to where they're from but Bella based a lot of the garden around her palace on neat plants from there."

"Ooh, plants," says Yseult. "What do they look like?"

Soph commences describing wacky demonic plants from her sister's garden as they find seats in the bar. This naturally leads to: "She wasn't going to have such a complicated garden, except she needed something for her demonic minions to do."

"Your sister has demonic minions?" says Helen. "Not the people-killing kind, I hope?"

"Oh no they're really sweet actually! But they're not very pretty, to humans anyway. They wanted someone to be minions of after Bella had to kill the hell-goddess they were working for. They like M&Ms and they don't get bored if I want to play Monopoly and insist on playing through the whole endgame, I like them."

"That's cute," says Helen.

"It is! Bella made them a dorm on Mercury and they do her gardening and sometimes she takes a couple along when she is going on diplomatic excursions to try to get other demons to stop eating people, for added consequence. They are supposed to call her Your Majesty, they won't say 'Bella' - and sometimes they forget even that and they call her 'your flammableness' or something."

"Your flammableness?"

"It's her aura, it makes her all flamey, it's really cool-looking."

"Ooh. Kas's aura just makes him look huggy," says Helen. "I haven't seen anyone else's."

"I haven't seen anybody's besides my Bella's. I'm all excited and nervous about the next Bellparty."