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[jovahs_heiress]

Isabella thinks it's time to start spreading the word. Before she ascends to Archangelhood. She'll have more work on her plate, then, and it will be easier if she can trust more people with the details of how she's carrying it out.

Alleluia should be the one to tell Delilah. But she's going to tell Serah herself.

"I have been thinking about telling your auntie Serah about magic-and-everything," Isabella says to Damaris one morning. Magic-and-everything has been a term unto itself; it encompasses the magic, and where it is from, and the nature of Jovah and Jane. "Do you want to be there when I do?"

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[campanas]

"Maybe by the time Jane is back again there will be another Ariel how there is another me and another Dars!"

[jovahs_heiress]

"Excuse me," says Serah, "what?"

"...Oh," says Angela. "In these other worlds... sometimes there are copies of people. If there are more of you, I haven't encountered them, but there are several of me, and of Micaiah, and some of them are also together, and one of those sets has two daughters. The eldest looks like Damaris, only older and not an an angel - the younger is like Keziah in the same way."

[campanas]

"The other me is called Céleste and she has a pet griffin because in her world they can do as much magic as they want in front of anybody!"

[carillons]

"The other me is called Dominique - I mean Yseult," says Damaris, "and she's an enchantress!"

[jovahs_heiress]

"What odd names," murmurs Serah.

"Most of me are named Isabella, but when we are all together we use nicknames; they just call me Angela," says Isabella. "The Micaiahs have all sorts of different names. But of course in all these different worlds they don't speak Samarian, so there are many different names as well as some that are similar."

[carillons]

"People in other worlds have weird names," Damaris asserts.

[jovahs_heiress]

"But of course I have only your word to go on," says Serah.

"Mine, Damaris's and Keziah's, Micaiah's if you like, Alleluia and Caleb and their children," says Isabella. "And any magic you'd like to see done, and a visit to the spaceship, if you want, and I hope that suffices to convince you about the worlds and the alts - the other versions of people."

[carillons]

"And you could ask Nathaniel if he was here but he's not 'cause he's in Aurum," says Damaris.

[jovahs_heiress]

"Aurum?"

"One of the other worlds. This one is just called Samaria."

"I... suppose that makes sense."

[campanas]

"Uncle Nathaniel went to go visit another Joker! Daddy is one of those."

[carillons]

"But they mostly don't have brothers," says Damaris. "Nathaniel is special!"

[campanas]

"And we have little sisters but Yseult and Céleste don't!"

[jovahs_heiress]

"...I think I need a while to think about all this," says Serah. "The... brainphone?... will keep working, yes?"

"Of course," says Isabella.

"Then I suppose I can let you know if I have more questions, when I'm ready to absorb anything else," laughs Serah faintly.

[carillons]

Damaris nods.

[jovahs_heiress]

"Let's go back up to the Eyrie and let Auntie Serah think, treasures," says Isabella, and she leads the girls out of the house.