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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]

"They're external souls," says Juliet. "Alethia seems to feel very strongly that people should have them, so if you go in unprotected you'll get one, and it's a star to not. That's how Ivy happened - she was on purpose - and Minus had Steph, for a while, but she was miserable. Sherlock self-loathing problems. I never got to meet her."

[thaumobabble]

"...Sherlock self-loathing problems."

[cross_and_bow]

"...Is that not universal? I guess yours doesn't have the usual reason or the unusual reason..."

[thaumobabble]

Glass turns towards her wife and peers at her, and glances around for comparison at other visible Sherlocks scattered around the room.

"Oh," she murmurs. "There it is. I didn't know. It's only a little bit, next to some of the others... Oh, honey."

[calendarofcrime]

Steel spreads her hands.

"It doesn't trouble me very much," she says quietly.

[thaumobabble]

Glass hugs her anyway.

[calendarofcrime]

Hug.

[cross_and_bow]

"Mine didn't have it for a while. When he didn't have his soul. And then he took it back, and I tried when I did the merger wish, to insert the soul without the self-loathing, but it's apparently impossible, as Steph illustrated - either that or I wished it wrong, because the coin went, I don't know - and now he's attached to keeping the soul, even though..." She shrugs, looks at her feet.

[calendarofcrime]

"...Would you like a hug?"

[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."