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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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[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.