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[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

[cross_and_bow]

"If hugs helped appreciably I'd be all better now," says Juliet wryly. "It's him I'm worried about; I'm going to go on being intermittently upset till something gives."

[calendarofcrime]

"Aha."

[thaumobabble]

"It's a very insistent attractor," murmurs Glass. "It prefers to disguise itself with normal causality. When it can't it will hang around anyway. I'm not sure if there's a way other than - brute causal force of some kind - to make it go."

[calendarofcrime]

"Brute causal force?"

[thaumobabble]

"Minus didn't have it, for a while. There's nothing preventing that. It just takes - drastic measures, apparently soul-removal is at least one way, I can't see if there are more."

[calendarofcrime]

"I see."

[thaumobabble]

"Oh, honey," sighs Glass again.

[luminous_regnant]

"My husband has a little problem with that, but I don't know how closely the manifestations resemble each other; he's not a Sherlock."

[calendarofcrime]

"And I have never met your husband."

[luminous_regnant]

"He avoids these parties. He's not fond of being around people who closely resemble me without being me. Cam is all right, though. If you decide to tour the world and Alice gives you the all-clear regarding wolves and unmated vampires you might encounter, you could meet him if you so chose."

[calendarofcrime]

"I will keep it in mind."