"So yeah, you're you, I'm me, do we actually, like, have things to talk about?"
"Yeah. I don't know, what is there to talk about. Bells without sisters are weird? Magic is neat? Tonies are cute?"
"I don't just mean I have one in my world like I'd mean if Bella said that -"
"Oh my god, I can never remember to call mine 'Aurora', either."
"Yeah, I could, but I could also mill around the party looking the long way around in case I run into anyone interesting on the way!"
"Hey, I ran into Lexi, who everybody thinks I should meet, that's something."
"Aurora kinda wanted to meet you," remembers Lexi. "I guess Juliet's already met me though."
"Okay, I'll look for her at some point, then." Soph glances at Lycaelon. "I'm, uh, newer than I look, is why she hasn't already met me."
"Oh," says Lycaelon. "I don't hardly know how new anyone is; this is my first Bellparty."
"I think my newness might actually be the weirdest newness, if only because Sherlocks have happened several times? I look and feel seventeen but I was made with all my and everybody else's memories intact to account for me like a couple months ago, out of some mystical energy that someone wanted to put in a safe place. Except it didn't work on Bella, because, opacity, so she didn't know who I was."
"But then she figured out what happened, so she made a fork of herself that remembered me and then merged and now she remembers things both ways and we're okay."
"Yeah. Also the spell couldn't get ahold of stuff that wasn't in Sunshine, or duplicate torching or any really big coin effects, so I remembered being unable to leave the world or get any good hexed powers or be torchabled, and then once I actually existed I could."