Cam has been sidetracked several times now from his long-term goal of... keeping current with... the entire deck of Jokers. And now they're not even in the orgy chamber. But that's hardly insurmountable. [Hey, sweetness,] he says to Jellybean, [is this a good time for me to get introduced properly to Corona and/or Nona?]

[Lemme check,] he says. There is a pause. [Corona says go for it, Nona says she'll think about it.]

[Huh, does she have something going on I haven't heard about?] Cam inquires. [That's not usual.]

[I dunno,] says Jellybean, [have you heard about her dad?]

[I presume he is or was awful, par for the course?]

[Awful yes, par for the course nnnnot exactly. He used to fuck her. She's... well, she's dealing better than Corona did, but she's still - kind of shy for a Joker? It'll pass. The fact that they lived by themselves in a castle in the middle of nowhere with nobody for company but the swans isn't helping anything. Before she hit the deck she'd been around as many people as there are at this party once in her whole life. Not even enough to know that's what she was missing.]

[Huh. Okay. I'll warn Glass, I guess, I'm not sure but just in case.]

[Warn Glass about what, Nona probably not wanting to fuck her? Is that a thing? I didn't know that was a thing,] laughs Jellybean. [If she wants some girl-flavoured Joker she'd be better off trying Ghosty or Celo - I know Celo was walking around swapped a while ago, and Ghosty can be whatever shape she wants.]

[If Glass generically wanted some girl-flavored Joker I'd have expected her to hit one up already. I don't know if she was planning to ask Nona or not, but if she asks and gets a no that will probably not do anything good for her odds of asking Nona or anyjoker else later on.]

[...So wait, why Nona and not the rest of us, then?]

[I haven't actually talked to Glass in particular about this, but the impression I get from monosexual Bells - who aren't Amariah, anyway, she's flexible about exact details here because daemons - is that it goes on being somewhat important which pronouns and which shape you are by default, and Ghosty gets interpreted as not having a default shape. And Queenie gets interpreted as having female default pronouns but not a matching default shape. If Glass works like that then Nona would be the first viable candidate.] Pause. [You might want to tell Etty, or get Nona to tell Etty, about this too, I could also see Glass asking Etty first to make sure she wouldn't be stepping on her toes.]

[...mm,] says Jellybean. [What's me telling Etty gonna do?]

[Means Etty will be able to tell Glass if Glass asks her, instead of me having to go interrupt whatever Glass is doing - probably sorting people into moieties, have you heard about that yet? - and presume that it's useful information. A bit less awkward.]

[You could tell Etty,] Jellybean suggests. [Yeah, I got the news from the Joker grapevine. Apparently we're purple.]

[You'd be able to explain it to Etty better than I could if she wants details. Unless Nona has enough introspective insight to just explain herself? Is this thing something she told you or something you guys noticed?]

[...I'm not sure there's a difference,] says Jellybean. [There sometimes isn't, when we're all linked. She definitely doesn't know any less about it than I do.]

[Oh, in that case I'll tell Etty to ask Nona about it. And then I'll go hunt up Corona, I suppose.]

[Have fun!] says Jellybean. [Corona is fun. You know about his Gift, right?]

[I've heard a description?]

[He amplifies things. All kinds of things. Including sensory things,] says Jellybean, very cheerfully. [If you let him. It's pretty awesome.]

[...So yeah I think I'll go do those things I said I would do, now, love you sweetness.]

[I love you too,] Jellybean says fondly.

At the moment, Corona can be found outside, sitting on the edge of the platform with his legs dangling over the side and watching the dragons.

Cam sits next to him. "Hey," he says.