"Yup, I'm Cam. If monosyllables mean something awkward you could call me Campbell."

"Just means 'casual', you could call me Ti if you wanted."

"The other Bells who will want to meet you are Ambela and Miranda and Bella; Kib might not."

"I told Ambela."

"Why might Kib not?"

"He's traumatized, currently believes he's in a malicious hallucination of a class which includes lots of ostensibly ceasing to be in malicious hallucination range so he can't be convinced otherwise readily, and doesn't want to let his husband out of his sight for complicated related reasons."

"Oh."

"The person responsible is in a black hole now."

"I don't know what that is."

"Super, super dead."

Mirelótë chooses this moment to come in from the backyard. "Hello! I'm Mirelótë Ambela, you must be Tireh."

"Inconveniently, neither name has a really good two-syllable shortening."

"...Lótë would work if that were important..."

"It's not a big deal, don't worry about it, that's just how I want to be addressed."

"Another you that invented writing."

"Maybe that just happens automatically if we're born somewhere that doesn't have it."

"Hatched."

"Oh dear."

"Yeah, that's been explained."

"We're really lucky Minor happened to get one of the summons."

"Has the situation been squared away altogether or not quite?"

"A plan is in place but if someone already summoned gets curious we're stuck."

"Or just gossipy."

"We have a ten year lifespan, I was in a hurry."

"Short years. Shorter, even."