universal template sweep!

[incanted]

Bella's checks for templates other than herself, Brilliance, Matilda, Libby, and people attached to them like her and Lexi's parents or Libby's Chris turns up nothing - no friends, no villains.

Before Libby contacts her, she gets visitors.

"Shell Bell! Juliet! Wow, how long has it been for you guys?"

"At home, no time," says Shell Bell.

"Longer for me. I can get to Milliways anytime, but Jane is really fucking broken," says Juliet. "Not years, though, just a few months, and for a while nothing I urgently needed offworld help for came up. I finally had to force the door to Atlantis to get Shell Bell so we could go to Yggdrasil - the Jarvis there lost connection - and then we swung through all the other Jarvised worlds to quarantine a certain transmissible spell from Sunshine, and then we figured as long as we were together and Shell Bell can door near anywhere we'd stop here. For your charming company and also coins. Next is picking up Glass and trying for the world where Aegis went."

"Yeah, sure," says Aurora, "you can have coins, no problem - I'm not down much time, more than before but only about a week. It turns out I have a Matilda and also a Libby, but my Libby is less than impressed with me, I think, Juliet, can you run and get yours?"

"Working with Shell Bell's doors instead of Jane means the best way to do that without losing any time is going to your Libby and opening a door there," says Juliet. "Will she be up for that?"

"She said she'd call me today when she wasn't busy, I can bring you guys," nods Aurora. "If you don't mind waiting around a little."

"Well, in the meantime we could maybe meet your Matilda? Is she busy?" asks Shell Bell.

"I'll check."

[Hey, Matilda! Guess who's here!]

Comments

[incanted]

"Agreed."

[cross_and_bow]

"We can wait for James and Beth, though."

[neverbeatme]

James and Beth return after a little while longer.

"Beth is now minted," James announces. "And on board with general Belling."

[cross_and_bow]

"Excellent. Thanks, James."

[incanted]

"That will make it easier to do my general Belling, yeah, thanks."

[neverbeatme]

James grins.

[prima_sequentem]

Beth smiles.

[incanted]

"Are Libbies and Agent Honey accompanying us to look for Glass?" inquires Aurora.

[prima_sequentem]

"I think I'll go home, if it's all the same to you guys."

[neverbeatme]

"Ditto that."

[withmypowers]

"No way am I missing out on meeting Glass," says Agent Honey.

[incanted]

"Okay, well, James knows and Beth should know that the door will take you both back where you came from; if things are working normally it'll be no time to speak of between then and when we come back."

[she_sells_seashells]

"Unless something else is going on. I left Tune home and he's syncing me to Atlantis."

[prima_sequentem]

"All right," says Beth.

[neverbeatme]

"Yep," says James. The pair of them wander off.

[she_sells_seashells]

Shell Bell heads for the door after them, waits for them to go home, and then flares again to door to Chronicle.