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.

Comments

[incanted]

"Unsure of my priority, yeah, like, he said the other Jokers would probably not take precedence in a saving-people situation, but that only goes so far and it's not for the most comfortable of reasons."

[beheld_beauty]

"I'm unsure that we're the best pair to interview," says Rose. "For months we were each other's only company at all. I was his rescue from an eternity of loneliness. I am his wife. I do not think mon cœur is likely to abandon me for any newer interest unless the first abandonment is mine. It would certainly have been a terrible surprise, had it been a surprise, had I been assigning more significance to where he takes his exercise than to the rest - but it was not a surprise."

[deslandes]

The Beast snuggles his wife.

[beheld_beauty]

"I can also read his mind," Rose says, lifting her hand to touch Beast's cheek. "Most of us do - I don't believe Cam or Amariah do, though. And Aegis's version is considerably more under Sue's control than Angela's or Stella's is under Micaiah's or Alice's. But it helps. There is - really no understanding of how they love until you have seen it, I think."

[incanted]

"If there's no understanding without looking and they don't mind being looked at why don't Cam or Amariah?"

[beheld_beauty]

"People from Amariah's world have their own sort of particular intimacy, which may suffice for her. I don't know about Cam. Possibly it's relevant that the two of them are by far the most likely to follow suit with the behavior that has you so concerned," Rose suggests.

[deslandes]

The Beast laughs.

[incanted]

"So I should try one of them?"

[beheld_beauty]

"Perhaps. I am sorry I cannot be of more help." She pauses. "And it might be unnecessary to extract these Bells' respective Jokers from their activities, considering that it turned out mon cœur had so little to say."

[deslandes]

"I have no wisdom to offer about being a Bell in love with a Joker, ma belle, because I am not one."

[incanted]

"I thought you might be able to reassure me about prioritization, but apparently Rose has you figured out well enough to do that all by herself," sighs Aurora.

[deslandes]

He shrugs. "My love is my love is my love."

[incanted]

"Of course she is."

[beheld_beauty]

"I am," shrugs Rose, smiling. "I do recommend mindreading. It - helped."

[incanted]

"I guess I'll talk to Brilliance about that when he. Emerges."

[beheld_beauty]

"They're having fun, Aurora. He will still love you."

[deslandes]

"He will always love you," says the Beast, hugging Belle again.

[beheld_beauty]

Snuggles!

[incanted]

"Okay," says Aurora, "so, we've established that you're adorable even when one of you is a cat monster, I guess that's non-negligibly helpful especially since mine turns into a deck of cards and a magic wand, and I should talk to Cam or Amariah. Thanks."

[beheld_beauty]

"You're welcome," says Rose sunnily.

[deslandes]

The Beast grins.

"I'm going to go and be borrowed now, ma belle," he says, nuzzles Rose's cheek, and wanders off to the orgy chambers.

[incanted]

Aurora goes looking for Cam or Amariah.

[lifes_sake]

Cam's over there!

[incanted]

Aurora summarizes her project.

[lifes_sake]

"Yeah, um." Cam scratches his neck awkwardly. "I might be a little less serious with Jellybean than the others with theirs? Like, he's my boyfriend, he tells me he loves me all the time, I'm not really there yet, he doesn't really seem to mind, so it's not like I'm entitled to have a problem with it if he tells Tilly he loves her too or if he gets up to bizarre things with tentacled aliens. Let alone screws his way through the deck of Jokers, because I did that too, it's worth a go if you're into it."