dark_light | we do not bear children until we have so chosen

Amariah appears in the Belltower, throws herself into a chair, and tries to read postcards, but her eyes won't focus on them. She tries the Bellbook, and scarcely has better luck, although her eyes do catch on a certain word.

"Jane."

"Yep?"

"I want to talk to Aether."

"I'll let her know!"

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dark_light

"You ever check?" Amariah asks Damaris, since this seems to be what they're talking about now.

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fortissima

She shakes her head.

"But now I'm curious," she says, and deploys a square. An illusory albatross appears in front of her and spreads its wings; illusory feathers ghost through two walls of the room.

"...'Large bird daemons' seems to be a template feature," she observes.

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dark_light

"It does seem that way," chuckles Amariah.

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telesonorous

"It's interesting," says Helen. "—Do either of you have ingot powers?"

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fortissima

Damaris shakes her head.

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mindfields

"Mine concerns mindscapes," says Yseult. "They are more understandable to me, and more malleable, than they are to most people."

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dark_light

"So I guess if you haven't turned up with one yet that's evidence in favor of the mint-parents-at-time-of-conception theory," Amariah says in Damaris's direction, "have Keziah or Céleste demonstrated anything yet, though?"

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mindfields

The relevant Dominiques

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fortissima

shake their heads.

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dark_light

"Huh. I guess we'll see. So far no one has been deliberately reproducing to get specific ingotry, anyway."

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telesonorous

"Specific...?"

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dark_light

"Well, Bells all have the same power when we can get powers at all. With variations."

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telesonorous

"Hmm," says Helen, with a glance at Yseult. "Doesn't seem to work that way for us."

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dark_light

"Apparently not. So it varies template to template."

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telesonorous

"Should someone be consulting Glass? I hear she's the go-to for this kind of thing."

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dark_light

"She is! Jane, does Glass want to pop in and peer thoughtfully at Dominiques?"

$mind_game: (fractal)$

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mind_game

"Inquiring - yep!"

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thaumobabble

Pop!

Glass peers thoughtfully at Dominiques.

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telesonorous

Dominiques peer thoughtfully back.

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thaumobabble

"You have some - themes to you, nothing that unusual to have in common as templates go - daemons, coin colors, obviously appearance. None of you are standing out as the template instance at all. I think you might be - almost a subtype? You are a kind of person, the specific kind of that kind of person that appears for Bell/Joker pairings' firstborns. There might be a theme to the ingot powers but I can't tell until I see more of them, I think. I think you're going to continue to usually be female as more of you appear but it's not a guarantee the way it is with - Matildas, say, I don't think we'll ever see a boy Matilda."