"I can't wait."

Does El want an infodump about black holes? Because that is a great way to get an infodump about black holes (one which seems to be leaving a lot out, given even the overview in turn brushes over spacetime in a 'this is a thing' kind of way, and the concept of acceleration and gravity being meaningfully the same thing is probably a major 'what' moment that Bellona Two just states matter of factly, as is relativity of time and the concept of a light cone, and she spends more time explaining how space and time can switch places inside a black hole's event horizon such that the distance to the exit becomes infinite while time becomes finite, since that's The Cool Part.) Also fucking with spacetime too much via alchemy could produce a black hole which is pretty cool if you think about it, and wouldn't even be that dangerous (except to anything in or touching the array which might get crushed infinitely small) since it'd be limited mass - 

Bellona nO-

Spoilsport.

Excuse her for liking her surroundings and genius alchemist sister uncrushed thank you!!

She could trigger it remotely with alkahestry! And honestly it'd just fall to the center of the Earth, it'd be subatomic and pretty much just flit around between atoms - space  is mostly empty vacuum so the ground won't exactly stop it - going 'Hi! I'm a black hole!' and wouldn't do anything interesting before the Sun eats the Earth anyways. Which is the biggest downside.

Uh huh.

Sigh. "No sense of adventure?"

"Not until you teach me enough that I can evaluate the efficacy of the safety procedures."

"I'll write a couple books too, how about?"

"Perfect."

Another hug, for good measure. 

As many as she wants.

El might end up spending her next couple of days rotating which Bellona she's hugging. 

Don't threaten her with a good time.

So it's a workable idea for her?

Oh, absolutely.

Sounds like they've got a game plan, then. 

Then let's run with it.

And over the next few days, El does in fact spend her waking hours - as does Eliana, though less intensely - rotating between the three time-looped Bellonas. Bellona Final hangs back from the rotation, pretty much only hanging out directly with her sister and girlfriend at night when they're asleep, interacting with the other Bellonas during the day. Bellona Two gets a lot of writing done, while Bellona Three calms down overall - and it's Bellona Three that gets restless first, apparently anxious to get moving and do something (and apparently the most inclined to jealousy of the set). Bellona Two and One decide they should leave with her; they're getting pretty close to too jealous (and too bored with avoiding alchemy) anyways. 

Ready to visit other worlds?

Seems like it! 

All together, or separately? Zera can accommodate either.

They want to go to separate worlds - but it wouldn't hurt to see each other dropped off, and it's easier to all leave at once. (After they've had time to all hug El and Eliana and Bellona Final goodbye.)

Fair enough. All aboard!

Zera slips them back into the Timeways,and the impossible geometries stretch and distort as she pushes to the breaking point, and past, into the multiverse beyond. She has a good idea of where to stop first, but as she is a dragon of manners (and the ship is the sort of being she can contact in this manner), she will reach out to ask Serenity's permission to dock before making the final approach.