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.
Cam (having bidden Ike an extremely friendly goodbye) is currently talking to the Griffins about what they feel like the limits of their ingotry might be. They don't know much.
A pair of alts wanders by, arms around each other's waists, dressed in similar and similarly rumpled dark-jeans-and-tight-shirt outfits. One has a pied kingfisher perched on his shoulder.
"Hi," he remarks. He takes in the kingfisher, glances at the nametags, produces and birdifies Grace to sit on his shoulder out of courtesy to the Alethian. "You must be Ripper and Keth."
"Well, I'm presuming if she said that you come highly recommended. It looks like for a limited time only you might also be buy one get one free."
"Intra-template telepathy? I thought that was just Sherlocks."
"I do prefer to be pleasantly reminiscent. Pleasantly everything, for that matter."
"So are the both of you. I had heard that Juliet found you hilarious but had no warning that you were this attractive."
"Or Amariah," Keth says cheerfully.
"Want a closer look?" says Ripper.
Excellent, then all of them can be teleported to a room, right? How about now? Here is a room.
"Usually we like a little more warning with the teleporting," says Ripper.
"But we'll let it slide this time because you're so pretty," says Keth. Hecate leaves his shoulder to approach Grace.
Grace hops off Cam to a convenient daemon-sitting place.
"Ah, fair warning, Grace doesn't really talk to anybody except me, even other daemons," Cam remarks. "Not like Path. She'll snuggle up, though."