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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[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.

[deslandes]

"It's pretty," says the Beast, looking around.

[autokinetic]

"Of course it is. We have good taste," says Aegis. "So, Rose, you're obviously all-over kickass serious magic already unless your aura's a liar, but you probably want to have my kind anyway, and for Beast too. Minting's explained in there."

[beheld_beauty]

"So it is," agrees Rose, after getting a ways into a book. "I do not have all of the listed powers already. And it seems possibly very efficient, given how enchanting works."

[deslandes]

"Hmm?" says the Beast.

Sue supplies him with the relevant information about where coins come from.

...He beams.

[autokinetic]

"Yeah, I'm not best supplied to give you a big starter set out of all the Bells," says Aegis, "since I have been a mint for about two days and haven't spent much of that time coinmaking, but I can mint the two of you and you can take it from there?"

[beheld_beauty]

"Please do," replies Rose.

[autokinetic]

Hex and hex and "Here's standard bandoliers for you both," with a pair of pentagons.

[deslandes]

"Ooh, magic," says the Beast, admiring his new bandolier.

[beheld_beauty]

Belle inspects it, then puts it on.

[autokinetic]

"I wanna see your coin color," Aegis says, bouncing on the balls of her feet a little.