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]

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

[yovahs_kisses]

"Nah, don't think so," he says. "But some of them I haven't talked to much, so I don't have an opinion about them one way or another."

[incanted]

"Fair enough. I guess that's all I'm getting on my quest for information here, huh?"

[jovahs_heiress]

"I'm sorry I can't be more helpful."

[incanted]

"It's all right. I'm not sure I ought to even bother with Aegis, I know she and Sue grew up together and that's the mother of all special circumstances, but maybe Stella will have something to say. Or either of the ones with Sherlocks."

[jovahs_heiress]

"Stella and Alice met when she was your age and I don't think they began with any special circumstances at all," agrees Angela.

[yovahs_kisses]

Micaiah hugs his angel and grins.

[jovahs_heiress]

Angela wraps him up in arms and feathers and beams.

[incanted]

Aurora goes and looks for Stella.

[self_composed]

Stella hears the standard spiel.

[Hey Alice, Aurora is confused about how Bells manage to go poly and wants examples to go by.]

[edgeofyourseat]

[Mmkay,] says Alice, and appears almost instantly. As is starting to be a pattern, the first thing he does is cuddle his Bell.

[self_composed]

"But I don't know how much help I'll be," says Stella, snuggling her Alice back.

[incanted]

"Because you have some kind of special circumstance?"

[self_composed]

"No, because I was not quite secure enough for my liking and my reaction involved turning Alice into a vampire. I mean, there were other reasons, but that one was in there."

[edgeofyourseat]

Alice sighs.

[incanted]

"...Oh."

[self_composed]

Stella kisses Alice's cheek. "Sorry," she says, and it's not clear which of them she's addressing. "You'd think being able to read his mind would've done it, and it did, mostly, it jollied me along for months, I probably could've done with nothing but if I'd had to."

[edgeofyourseat]

"...no, hang on," he says, "didn't you say you didn't make me a vampire so I'd be in magical vampire love with you forever?"

[self_composed]

"I made you a vampire because I thought you'd like it," Stella repeats. "...It occurred to me in the first place because Golden seemed. Like she felt - safer."

[edgeofyourseat]

"Did you not think about maybe telling me that," says Alice.

[self_composed]

"I probably should've. I probably would've if - no, I just should've, plain and simple," sighs Stella. "It's not like you were doing anything that made me feel unsafe."

[edgeofyourseat]

"Would've if...?"

[self_composed]

"If you hadn't wanted it to be a surprise and there'd been a conversation about it first. We spent the next several days pretty distracted."

[edgeofyourseat]

"And then you just... kept being distracted," sighs Alice. "Until now."

He hugs Stella.

"I love you," he says, less happily than usual.

[self_composed]

"I love you too, I'm sorry," Stella murmurs.