intelligent nametags

[thaumobabble]

Jane alerts everyone to the existence of a new Bell, the nature of her wives and children, and the presence of her mother-in-law.

She stands ready to move in anyone who wishes to attend this new party.

Glass stands ready to receive them.

Comments

[nonbird]

"Most worlds don't seem to. But most worlds don't have dragons, unicorns, or elves, either, and Thilanushinyel does."

[pleasantsurprise]

"Elves? I don't see any of those. We have them, though."

[nonbird]

"Sarion is an elf of the Thilanushinyel variety."

[pleasantsurprise]

"She's very tall for an elf."

[nonbird]

"Are your elves shorter? Has anyone named this world?" he wonders.

[pleasantsurprise]

"Uh, no, it is without a name. Adult elves range from yea big to yea big," says Kanim, hovering a hand at about knee height and the other just below his ribs. "Depending on the sort. They do have pointed ears, but there are also some proportional differences and facial structure things that Sarion doesn't have."

[nonbird]

"Someone should remind Glass to name it, then, if she hasn't already."

[pleasantsurprise]

"All the Bells name their worlds as well as themselves, then?"

[nonbird]

"Thilanushinyel had one already, I believe. I think the rest are Bell-sourced."

[pleasantsurprise]

"I'm starting to follow this general undercurrent of 'wait, there is a queen and it is not Glass?' I'm detecting from my eavesdropping."

[nonbird]

"The fact that there is a queen who is not Glass is mildly unusual," says Lazarus. "But I'm not sure why it deserves all this attention. Stella didn't overthrow the President."

[pleasantsurprise]

"I mean, Glass certainly never objected to the fact that her wives don't care for politics and that left her as default actually-doing-things queen when Marianne passed on - but that didn't stop her from spending most of her spare time on trying to figure out immortality."

[nonbird]

"Marianne is probably not going to pass on," Lazarus observes. "I wonder if she'll retire?"

[pleasantsurprise]

"No idea. I hope Glass doesn't wind up fighting with her about it. Glass is my best friend and Marianne frightens me sometimes and the twins and the wee ones love them both and I don't think it could possibly end well."

[nonbird]

"Doesn't sound like it," says Lazarus. "But maybe they won't. Bells do seem to get along with reasonable political leaders."

[pleasantsurprise]

"Glass likes Marianne, they get along really well."

[nonbird]

"Then they probably aren't going to fight."

[pleasantsurprise]

"That's good!"

[thaumobabble]

Glass wanders by. "Hi! You're Stella's magic-seeing-guy, right?" she says to Lazarus.

[nonbird]

"Yes!" says Lazarus. "That is me. I am that."

[pleasantsurprise]

"He sees magic, and apparently has better modulation than your specs," Kanim says. "Seeing as he's not clutching his face and yelping."

[thaumobabble]

"Ooh, lucky," says Glass, pulling out her specs but not putting them on. "These things are great for anything native to the world, but all my alts just scream magic, I'd go blind if I tried to look right at them even through one lens at a time."

[nonbird]

"...May I see those?" he asks, blinking in fascination at the specs.

[thaumobabble]

Glass hands them over. She enumerates where all the lenses' magic came from: "Witch spell with-cat, witch spell without-cat, got that out of a wizard staff, this one too, this I got a wizard to cast for me, we've got some reformists in the woods, Tony helped me with this dwarf spell, this was the first royal magic I ever got to work for me after I married Tony and the forest double-counted me, this is a dragon spell, that's a different one, this is elf magic..."

[nonbird]

"Goodness," says Lazarus. "That's a lot of magic."