Oh good for him.

He's been so helpful.

There's a pop. "Hi!"

"Hi! This is my new alt and Cor who might be a Bell and wants to read about them."

"In a few cases the public summaries do not include relevant reasoning but here you go."

"Thank you." He starts in.

This is a pamphlet from Cube, where Isabella Marie Swan (Butterfly) is loosely running a planet having freed it of evil aliens with the help of a guerrilla team of good aliens, made fast friends with the local Maitimo and when he got arrested kept the local Curufinwë company in his efforts to end death, which he has now done. This is from Edda, where Loki touched the Tesseract, got sorcery, landed on her Arda, dueled Sauron, taught Elves modern technology, tried and failed to kill Melkor with that, and developed interdimensional transit so she could go get the Tesseract again and rip him to shreds. This is from Elendil, in Warp, where Boots landed on an Arda, hacked her magic system to fix up the Arda, offended the Valar in the doing, and eventually fled for an Earth where T'Mir was a political prisoner, having saved several billion lives by smuggling their worlds the warp equations that would qualify them for galactic membership. This is Gem, empress of Mîr having saved her world and its adjacent Arda...

"I see a theme, although it is odd that they're mostly girls."

"Cam's war does not have a friendly accompanying pamphlet. Kib's is in there somewhere."

He finds Kib's.

In his world babies just appear. In a past life he invented storks to go scoop 'em up. In this life (and before he'd realized the dreams of a past life were that) he landed by magical accident on his Arda, ended up dating the local Maitimo and Findekáno, dreamed back his husband from his first life and went to go find him and got approval not to drop the boyfriends, found out Melkor was smuggling servantmakers and got captured in the war against him and recovered and now governs federated Stork with his husband.

"How do they check if I'm a Bell?"

"I think there's a standard set of questions. I can write the network -"

He does that. Cor read about some Bell adventures and thinks he might be one. Midnight thinks so also.

I wish I had come to the meeting instead of just being on standby. Where is he now?

Shadow.

She pops in to just outside the palace and says she's there to see Cor.

They let her in.

"Hello. I was on tap if your conversation with the peal Maitimo you met needed a Bell but at the time it didn't seem to. We really should start waving Boots at everyone who drops usefully on an Arda just on principle. Is Cor short for something?"

"Corbelan."

"Do you know what I mean if I refer to 'the three questions'?"

"Yeah."

"Boots can check this sort of thing automatically with subtle arts without doing anything else but I have touch telepathy -"

Cor steps back.

"You're probably a Bell, congratulations."

"Huh."