festive rainbow mirror summoning!

[incanted]

There are now one dozen Bells.

They and most of their friends are all here on Planet Rainbowsand II, to celebrate the addition of Sarion, the elf one, and Aurora, the one with a sister.

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[pythbox]

"Wow," says Liselen, blinking at her. "How do you sort it all out?"

[incanted]

"Look," says Aurora, "this is weird, where do little unicorns come from if unicorns can't be anywhere near nonvirgins unless they're patched like you?"

[pythbox]

He sidles uncomfortably away from her.

[incanted]

Aurora shrugs. "Never mind, then. I'm going to go talk to Angela."

[pythbox]

"Okay," says Liselen.

[incanted]

Angela's not hard to find. There she is! She gets the same explanation.

[jovahs_heiress]

[Love, have you met Aurora yet? She's trying to figure out how Bell-Joker relationships tend to work,] Angela tells her husband.

[yovahs_kisses]

[I haven't! I was distracted,] he says merrily. [Should I come and help?]

[jovahs_heiress]

[If now's a good time.]

[yovahs_kisses]

[Just a moment,] he says, and there is a pause, and then Micaiah appears and gives his wife a hug and a kiss.

[jovahs_heiress]

He gets these back in equal measure, and a wing wrapped around him. "Specifically, Aurora doesn't seem to understand how I'm so calm about you sleeping with other people."

[incanted]

"And I pretty much expect at this point to hear, 'But I don't know how much help I'll be, because I had a special circumstance that isn't like anyone else's special circumstance yet still made it particularly natural for me to fall into that pattern'," says Aurora, sighing.

[jovahs_heiress]

"Well, that's not exactly what I was going to say, but I did start out particularly motivated and with a general understanding of Edori habits. Though I believe many Edori are faithful to single lovers while they have them, it's not the norm, and they don't generally marry."

[incanted]

"Motivated because of the god thing?"

[jovahs_heiress]

"Yes - not only did I expect that Micaiah had been chosen for me by someone smarter and better than myself," Angela snorts ruefully, "I also found that he'd be my requisite partner if I ever wanted to be Archangel. I later learned differently, but not before I was thoroughly attached by other means."

[yovahs_kisses]

"I love you," sighs Micaiah, snuggling his angel.

[jovahs_heiress]

"And I you."

[incanted]

"You are just preposterously cute. But - like, alts are one thing, putting Jokers in a room together is apparently like putting magnets in close proximity - but other people?"

[jovahs_heiress]

"There was that time with Phebe... that was a problem," murmurs Angela.

[yovahs_kisses]

He presses his face into her shoulder and sighs unhappily.

[jovahs_heiress]

"Phebe is another angel at the Eyrie who doesn't like me," Angela explains to Aurora, settling her wing more snugly around Micaiah. "She interpreted Micaiah's - availability - as an opportunity to hurt me. And for political reasons I can't just announce to everyone that it isn't. Angels are often inconstant, but associated mortals, not so much. She believes that I forgave him for a betrayal, and her too, and I managed to present this in a way that so far doesn't have her telling the tale far and wide."

[incanted]

"My question is more about why it isn't a betrayal. I mean, maybe he never promised not to, that takes care of the technical sense of betrayal, but - you guys are married, you're going to have a baby, and you're not - keeping yourselves to yourselves. I don't completely get it."

[jovahs_heiress]

"As it happens I do keep myself to ourselves," says Angela lightly. "Several of us do. I don't think Rose has looked outside her marriage for company, and I have no certain information either way about several of our other alts."

[yovahs_kisses]

"Cam fucked all of us a while back," Micaiah offers. "He's fun, I like him."

[incanted]

"Are there any Bells you don't like?"