(retroactive)

[her_imperial_radiance]

It is after the very first Bellparty.

"Dad never comes to these," Elspeth tells her grandma. "Too many strange Bells. If there were strange Edwards, Mama might have trouble with them too, but there aren't so far. But I can reintroduce you now, if you'd like."

Comments

[prima_sequentem]

"Good empress. Have a bronzed cookie."

[luminous_regnant]

"A bronzed cookie?"

[prima_sequentem]

"You wouldn't get much use out of the edible kind," she says reasonably.

[luminous_regnant]

"Is there some use to the bronze kind which is unclear to me?"

[prima_sequentem]

"You can hang it on the wall on a little plaque and then look at it and bask in the memory of my approval."

[luminous_regnant]

"I believe I will find your approval sufficiently memorable absent the cookie. Are you approving of me for anything in particular?"

[prima_sequentem]

"All the people you've brought back from the dead recently spring to mind as an example."

[luminous_regnant]

Bella laughs. "Yes. Anyone else I should pick up and haven't yet?"

[prima_sequentem]

"My aunt would be nice."

[luminous_regnant]

"Any special instructions on how to wake her and introduce her to the world?" Bella asks, poising her hand over her new Jane-gem.

[prima_sequentem]

"Mentioning that I got resurrected first might be a good idea."

[luminous_regnant]

"Anything else?"

[prima_sequentem]

"Nah, I think that covers it."

[luminous_regnant]

"Jane, you heard her," says Golden, tapping the gem.

[mind_game]

[Roger.]

She locates the correct Chris in the catacombs.

[Hello, Chris. Your niece has recently been resurrected from the dead and asked for you.]

[queensidecastle]

[That's nice,] says the appropriate Chris. [Where can I find her?]

[mind_game]

[I can pick you up and put you where she is, if you don't want to ask me any questions first.]

[queensidecastle]

[Lizzie first. Questions later.]

[mind_game]

Yoink.

[queensidecastle]

Hug!

[prima_sequentem]

Hug.

"So, Edward grew up and married an immortal vampire empress," she summarizes.

[queensidecastle]

"Of course he did."

[luminous_regnant]

"I feel like I should clarify that at the time he married me I was only an immortal vampire, and it was his doing that I was even that."

[queensidecastle]

"And at what point did one of you get the power to raise the dead?"

[luminous_regnant]

"A few hours ago."