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It's a week or two before everything's nice and set up for searching for alts. All of the portals have been remade, spare mirrors have been created, and everyone that is allowed portal access gets a microchip. Even the gods. Rae accepts his without fuss, Perinixu - tolerates it. After a lot of questions. And a hefty donation from Cam in the form of another temple. Whatever, they managed it.
Cypress offers to do the scrying, but Prime shrugs him off. Which one of them is married and therefore has a wife to bang in his free time? Oh, right, yes, that's Cypress. Go, be free, twenty-something year old alt. Prime doesn't hate your happiness. (Much.) Now, if Prime gets married, they can divvy up the annoying work between themselves. But, not happening anytime soon, so he'll do it.
Exciting scrying happens. It involves lots of staring off into the distance and looking at places.
And then, he informs the various people arrayed around him in Pantheon:
"Found a set. A female Adarin, and a female Bell. Also a Zeviana and a - girl whom I don't recognize. And parents." Pause. "They're all living in the same house."
He dearly hopes they local Bell and Adarin are not siblings, that would make everyone uncomfortable. Oh, nope, look, the Bell and the Adarin just kissed. How quaint.
"Pretty sure they're not siblings," he clarifies. "Unless this is the plane of incest."
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darkest_evening
point_b
And here is Flicker again with Charlie. "Dad, these are our alternate universe and male counterparts, I think that's a me and that's an Adana. The me wants to renovate as discussed. Still yes?"
from_scratch
"I'm Cam, or call me Revelation; that's Adarin, but call him Prime." Cam makes himself a strawberry with no leaves and eats it.
darkest_evening
Prime is going to go nap anyway, so. He makes little tiny illusionary fireworks.
"Hello. And now goodbye, I have a wonderful, delightful lady known as my bed to return to."
He waves, and then turns and walks through the portal. And now he is gone.
"Hello. And now goodbye, I have a wonderful, delightful lady known as my bed to return to."
He waves, and then turns and walks through the portal. And now he is gone.
from_scratch
"Sorry about him," Cam says to Charlie. "Iiii think I'll stick my head through the portal and get my girlfriend to help with the remodeling and also with the being convincingly alternate universe versions of them." He points at Flicker and Conduit, goes to the portal, says, "Pantheon", leans through, and says, "Aaaaangel?"
ask_nicely
"Coming!"
And then there is a second, winged Adana that's in her twenties instead of her late teens.
"Hello," she says politely to Charlie.
And then there is a second, winged Adana that's in her twenties instead of her late teens.
"Hello," she says politely to Charlie.
from_scratch
"Charlie, this is my Adana. You can call her Revival. If you're still on board with making architectural changes today she will be knocking a door in the back of the living room over there to lead to same."
ask_nicely
"Okay. Let me check for pictures, and then I can make a doorway."
She checks for pictures, so she doesn't break anything. Then she eyes up the wall and makes a 'hmmm' sound, and adds extra supports so the house doesn't collapse. Then - there is a doorway. After some specifications, she adds foundation for her boyfriend to build off of, and then starts adding stairs down to a cellar, which she hollows out neatly. She's doing this carefully, the house is not going to collapse in on itself.
"All yours, Cam," she says, when she's finished.
She checks for pictures, so she doesn't break anything. Then she eyes up the wall and makes a 'hmmm' sound, and adds extra supports so the house doesn't collapse. Then - there is a doorway. After some specifications, she adds foundation for her boyfriend to build off of, and then starts adding stairs down to a cellar, which she hollows out neatly. She's doing this carefully, the house is not going to collapse in on itself.
"All yours, Cam," she says, when she's finished.
from_scratch
"Thanks, angel." He's much faster; presently there is a furnished extra wing of house, two stories, semidetached, with an extra side door.
"You like?"
"You like?"
from_scratch
"I made six rooms, since the floorplan cooperated with that. And a spare bathroom. And you should be hooked up okay wiring- and plumbing-wise. It is weird that you have a twin, the rest of us Bells are only children."
from_scratch
"Campbell, Isabella, Iobel, Ayabel, we are Bells, we have a Belfry. Adarins don't have nearly so cooperative a name scheme."
ask_nicely
"It's very sad, we haven't been able to think of anything good, though. So we let the Bells have all of the fun of puns."
from_scratch
"And before you ask, it's 'Adarins' because two of the first three are named that - there are now just as many Adanas, but I don't know if you'd have any luck pushing a switch. Other names are Edarial - Rain, goes with Katydid - and Darren - Max, goes with Phix."
blink_and
"That's - strange. Hmm. If most of us are - men then it doesn't make sense to try and change the name to something feminine. Even if they might go for it."
from_scratch
"But if you do think of a collective noun that is as adorable as 'Bells', the slot is still open."
blink_and
"I'll wrack my head for it. I mean, we could probably manage to pick something at random that's reasonably cute, but. That doesn't seem very accurate."
point_b
"Sure, lemme grab at least one of my sister." Bella flickers into the house.
blink_and
"Alli can split herself. Two copies of her, exact same personality, exact same memories - they're perfectly in sync until someone or something else unsyncs them. Then after - I forget how long, sorry, she can end it early if she wants - one of them joins back up into the other and Alli gets both sets of memories."