yes, there is beauty

[jovahs_heiress]

Angela stops at Milliways on her way home, Micaiah in tow. She cannot force the door to Beast's world, not with any coin she carries, but she leaves a note at Bar for him, asking that he go to the tower out back and identify himself to Jane. There's nothing else they can do for him. Belle, of course, will get a key if she goes to the bar.

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[beheld_beauty]

Belle goes with a handflower-bracelet, with gold disks and clear pink spinels, and looks at it in fascination while Aegis ansibles the largest jewel, twists off the part that needs to be taken away to make the connection, and has it vanish out of her hand.

[deslandes]

"Beautiful," declares the Beast.

[beheld_beauty]

Belle beams and kisses him on the cheek.

[autokinetic]

"Why're the married ones so freaking cute?" mutters Aegis, mostly to Sue.

[pythbox]

"I don't know, but I kinda love it," he says cheerfully.

[autokinetic]

"I guess Shell Bell and Sherlock are also damn adorable," snorts Aegis. "So not just married ones. And we haven't met Edward so who knows about him 'n Golden."

[beheld_beauty]

"It will be fascinating to encounter all these - versions of myself. Of us," says Belle.

[autokinetic]

"Yeah - here, have the latest copy of the Bellbook," says Aegis, conjuring one and handing it over. "Let's go find a place to put Jane and then me and Sue can go back home and make that meeting we're theoretically on a shuttle to right now. We can carry on talking by brainphone, Jane can relay - to me or any of the others."

[beheld_beauty]

"If it can be so small and gemlike, perhaps we could put her in a chandelier," says Belle.

[mind_game]

[Chandelier works,] says Jane.

[deslandes]

"That would be sweet," declares the Beast.

[beheld_beauty]

Belle leads everyone down the stairs and to a back door into the garden, which she commands to move away from her, leaving ballroom in its wake, chandelier included. Her aura flickers with the order, but it's not a spell, just a manipulation of the living castle.

[autokinetic]

"I want one of those auras, you look like a walking special effects budget," admires Aegis. "I guess it'd be conspicuous though."

[beheld_beauty]

"I can suppress it, but if I don't, it lets everyone know that they're dealing with an enchantress," says Belle serenely. "Can you fly? To reach the chandelier?"

[autokinetic]

"'Course I can," says Aegis.

Aegis's flight power is not quite Bell standard. She, after all, already knew how to fly. She's got the power to course-correct in midair if she likes, but for the most part she operates in three dimensions by means of making gravity optional and doing what she's used to doing. She opts out of gravity now, and pushes off gently to catch the chandelier and replace a dangling crystal and twist and disappear the other half of the ansible.

[mind_game]

[Installed,] reports Jane.

[deslandes]

The Beast follows after Belle and snuggles her some more.

[beheld_beauty]

With the ballroom made and Jane given eyes and ears into it, Belle turns her attention back to her husband and focuses her attention as well as her second level of sight on his mindscape. "I'm so glad you're all right," she murmurs.

[deslandes]

"I know," he murmurs back. "I love you."

He really, really does.

[beheld_beauty]

"Let's have a look at this book," she says, and she opens the Bellbook that Aegis conjured for her, holding it so that he can read over her shoulder. "Huh, it's in Albish. Sort of."

[autokinetic]

"Right, sorry," says Aegis, "I wasn't thinking - Milliways has a translation feature and that's where the master copy lives, so mostly it's in English, various dialects, and Angela writes Samarian, and you'll wind up writing in your sorta-French, I guess. Maybe you should just come visit the Belltower and read it there. Or you could pentagon the languages."

[beheld_beauty]

"I think it would be interesting to see this Belltower regardless," Belle says. "Mon cœur, what do you think?"

[deslandes]

"Let's visit the Belltower!" says the Beast.

[mind_game]

Here they are!

[beheld_beauty]

And there is the real copy of the Bellbook. Belle can read the one she's already holding now, though.