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Aianon has made a plant in the open airless space above the surface of Thilanushinyel. It is a very, very large plant - some dragons will be attending the party, after all, even if Ansharil in particular is going to be assorted small things and stay on Sarion's person the bulk of the time.
The locals will be Sarion, her beloveds, their other beloved, the five conjured dragons (and their Bondmates, where applicable: Virgivere and Lissa), and Liselen - Magania has, as usual, declined, and so far no Bell party has featured Bell parents.
Amariah is bringing her boyfriend and spontaneous daughter and two of the spontaneous daughter's friends, as well as an Alethian instance of the Rupert template.
Shell Bell is bringing Pearl and Screwdriver.
Golden is bringing her usual large contingent, as usual not including her husband but including her daughter and daughter's grown fosterling (the other remaining at home) and his wolf, both mothers-in-law and one father-in-law, adopted siblings, staff members including the Joker and Nathan, and the children of the aforementioned.
Glass is bringing both wives, all three daughters, Kanim, and her cat. She invited Icarin and Valeria, but their parents are not willing to let them gallivant into other worlds unsupervised and had a scheduling conflict.
Stella's bringing a smattering of people including Alice, Anna, Sandy, Libby, Bridget, her college roommate Janine, and Lazarus.
Tab is bringing Aelise (but not Kers) and Luhan.
Etty is bringing only Nona.
Aether, likewise, brings no one but Celo.
Pattern comes with Ripper, Slipstick, Queenie, and Ghosty.
Aegis is accompanied by her four-bodied boyfriend, Merryweather, Whitlock, and Howlett.
Aurora comes with Brilliance, Lexi with her Device Persica, Agent Honey with her Device Adularia, and Beth.
Rose brings her husband and three children and her former apprentice, Luc.
Angela brings her husband, her four children, several of her friends, and some of those friends' children and grandchildren with and without wings. Keziah also brings a friend.
Juliet shows up with Soph, Minus, Red, Giles, James, Virginia, Minnie, Ike, and Val.
Cam brings Jellybean and Tilly and stops there.
And from unBelled worlds hail additional Sherlocks and Tonies, Darcy, Matilda, Pepper, and Eights.
small_magics
"I'm kind of not on speaking terms with her anyway, but for mostly unrelated reasons," he says. "And I'm technically my own god these days, but I still don't wear clothes, because it's not a religious thing for me, it's about being who I am. The religious thing is why nymphs in general walk around naked - without censor bars, that's actually violating the divine edict, just not in a way I personally care about - and why I don't get arrested when I do it at home."
lexicality
"Why could you not be who you are now with added pants?" She does jazz hands at "now with added pants".
Celo sighs.
"It's complicated. Part of it's that wearing clothes for somebody feels, like, really kinky, which I'm not totally opposed to, but I feel like the kind of people who don't want me walking around naked definitely don't think of it that way, so then it just gets weird and uncomfortable and gives me bad feelings? And part of it's that I just don't want to. In an important personal way, not a meh-don't-feel-like-it way. It's important to me to not wear clothes."
"It's complicated. Part of it's that wearing clothes for somebody feels, like, really kinky, which I'm not totally opposed to, but I feel like the kind of people who don't want me walking around naked definitely don't think of it that way, so then it just gets weird and uncomfortable and gives me bad feelings? And part of it's that I just don't want to. In an important personal way, not a meh-don't-feel-like-it way. It's important to me to not wear clothes."
lexicality
"Wearing clothes as kinky. Wow. That is one of the stranger things I've heard today and this is a Bellparty so it has competition."
lexicality
"Yeah, I think I've been some people's weirdest-thing, showing off my Peachy." (Persica, hanging round her neck, glitters.) Lexi inspects miniature sandwiches and takes one with prosciutto or some sort of custom organism that can pass for it.
lexicality
Lexi picks up the necklace chain from which Persica dangles. "Persica. You've met Brilliance, right? I mean, I don't know if you actually talk to each other when you're all piled up, but he's a deck of cards, she's a little peach."
"Hello," says Persica politely.
"Hello," says Persica politely.
lexicality
"Well, there's mine and there's Agent Honey's and there's Bella's - Aurora's I mean - there's Brilliance. And that's probably all the ones you're going to find at a party, I haven't met any other ones unless you count the really really dumb one Be- Aurora has on her hair elastic to do her anti-clumsiness that's not smart enough to say hi."
lexicality
"So which world are you from, are you from the one that broke Jane or one of the other new ones, which has nymphs?"
lexicality
"The Bells went to all this trouble to set up the nametags and like half the people I meet aren't wearing theirs."
lexicality
"Or don't have anything to stick it to. I bet you could get one that sort of floats illusionishly if you wanted."
"Yeah," he says, "pretty much literally - I mean, when I need a name on paper or out loud, I use Celosia because that's what grows in my garden, but my actual name is... kind of a psychic impression. Another nymph thing. Lemme see..."
He stands there looking thoughtful for a moment, idly doing tricks with a coin that he wasn't holding a second ago. His aura comes out.
His aura says that he is a god. He glows with the faintest touch of sunlight, and smells like a field of grain on a summer day, and is somehow warm to look at, and he is unquestionably divine. Helpfully, the aura also advertises his friendly regard for people in general (including Lexi in particular) and currently positive mood.
After a few seconds, the aura fades and an illusory nametag floats in the air near his shoulder. It proclaims his template to be Joker and his world to be Materia in the usual fashion, but the name entry is just a smear of vibrant colour, which when looked at with the intent to read produces Celo's name. It turns out that his name was part of his aura, but it's much more intense in the original. (The coin he was fiddling with is also back where it came from, wherever that is.)
He stands there looking thoughtful for a moment, idly doing tricks with a coin that he wasn't holding a second ago. His aura comes out.
His aura says that he is a god. He glows with the faintest touch of sunlight, and smells like a field of grain on a summer day, and is somehow warm to look at, and he is unquestionably divine. Helpfully, the aura also advertises his friendly regard for people in general (including Lexi in particular) and currently positive mood.
After a few seconds, the aura fades and an illusory nametag floats in the air near his shoulder. It proclaims his template to be Joker and his world to be Materia in the usual fashion, but the name entry is just a smear of vibrant colour, which when looked at with the intent to read produces Celo's name. It turns out that his name was part of his aura, but it's much more intense in the original. (The coin he was fiddling with is also back where it came from, wherever that is.)
lexicality
Lexi's eyebrows go up when his aura comes out. "Keen aura. My Bella's is kind of boring compared to some of 'em. Also, keen name."
"Well, most of us hate ours because we got them from shitty people one way or another, and Harley doesn't even remember his parents but he still likes the one he grew up with and not the one they gave him, but nobody gave me mine, it just came with being me. And it suits me."
lexicality
"I guess that's different then. I think my whole name is just too long. Al-ex-and-ra. I played with a bunch of ways to shorten it when I was a kid but I like 'Lexi' best."