friendly door

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth gets a door.

It's been so long she reels for a moment, and then she throws herself forward and almost lands in a peal of Bells. Yes, there's Shell Bell, there's Juliet and Aurora, there's Glass, there's some Matilda she hasn't seen before.

"Elspeth!" exclaims Glass.

"How long has it been?" Aurora asks.

"Seventeen years. Shell Bell - I need you to help me find Harley," says Elspeth.

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[thaumobabble]

"Oh, it would have been more efficient to mint him first," sighs Glass, "I didn't think of it, that's a pity - anyway - I'm seeing stuff, but I can't tell you exactly what it does. Lazarus could, he gets interpretation with his magic-seeing. This feature here looks slightly teleportation-colored but not shaped like the Bell standard..."

[giftedandtalented]

"I'll find out," beams Tab.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Meanwhile, Harley is as deprogrammed as Elspeth can get him.

I'll start un-Chelsaing you now, she tells Corona.

[pythbox]

Corona hugs Brilliance, since Brilliance is closer, and beams at Elspeth.

[exactlyright]

Carinna peeps around the doorframe into the room curiously.

[pythbox]

Corona spots this new face and waves from where he's snuggled up in Brilliance's lap.

[exactlyright]

Carinna has not really met Jokers before; she was shy of most everyone at the only Bellparty she has attended, and that was five years ago when she was seven. She does not unhide.

[thaumobabble]

"Do you want to come in, Carinna?" asks Glass.

[exactlyright]

Carinna shifts uncertainly. "I dunno."

[pythbox]

Corona shrugs and cuddles down again, nestling his head on Brilliance's shoulder. Brilliance hugs him. Light plays over them both.

[exactlyright]

"What's wrong with that one Princess Elspeth is holding?" asks Carinna. Princess Elspeth is remembered, because she is a) a princess and b) Elspeth.

[pythbox]

That one Princess Elspeth is holding has no answer for this; he just snuggles her and shivers.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"He's been to a world that is not as nice as this one, and some bad things happened to him," says Elspeth.

[exactlyright]

Carinna considers this, and then, slowly, tentatively, and ready to bolt if anyone makes a sudden movement, she steps into the room, takes Mossy out of her skirt pocket, and puts it (poofs have never been found to have discernible sexes) on Harley's chest.

[pythbox]

The poof whmmms and glows.

Harley opens his eyes, and blinks at it, and unwraps one arm from around Elspeth to pet its soft green fur. Mossy glows and whmmmms. Harley cuddles it and closes his eyes again with a soft, sad smile.

[exactlyright]

[thaumobabble]

Glass hugs her daughter.

[incanted]

"So we're waiting for Corona to come out of afterglow from an entire aura's worth of enchanting and then he'll get his own and then we go back to Tab's world, is the plan, right?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah. Corona, you can torch, now, if you want to speed that up any."

[giftedandtalented]

"I'm gonna call my world Gift, I think."

[pythbox]

"Torch? What, you mean like Harley? Awesome," says Corona. He snuggles comfortably into Brilliance's lap. "But I think maybe if we could just get a room, that'd be just as good."

[thaumobabble]

"Yes, like Harley. The white guest room is open, I think - go left out that hall, through the double doors, down the stairs, up the other stairs, first on the right, Jarvis can help you if you get lost."

[cardistry]

"Okay," Brilliance says cheerfully, scooping up Corona and starting off on the indicated route.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth has sufficient range to continue from this distance.

[giftedandtalented]

Bells set about gossiping and talking to Tab about how she's going to handle her world. They discover that her coins are glowing mirrors, which catch surrounding colors but give them back brighter. They fit her with a starting set, mostly in Brilliance's color, in all sizes.