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When Ariel is six, Isabella judges that she is ready to hear about Things, and sits her down.

She starts the same way she did with the elder girls:

"Have you noticed that your daddy and I seem to be able to do some things that other people can't?"

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jovahs_heiress

"That's why your uncle Nathaniel left. He was visiting another Joker, in a world called Aurum, when it happened, so now he can't come home until she's better. He's safe, though."

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carillons

Ariel thinks this through, then says, "He wasn't visiting the other of him?"

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jovahs_heiress

"Most Jokers don't have others of Nathaniel, though there are a few," says Isabella. "And... your uncle is the only one of the few who is nice."

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carillons

"What are the other ones like?"

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jovahs_heiress

"They are bad people. They hurt some alts of Daddy and of me very badly. I was very worried about Nathaniel, when I found out who his alts were, but - he seems to be fine."

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carillons

"Worried he would be not nice?" inquires Ariel.

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jovahs_heiress

"Yes. But I think I got him away from his parents early enough."

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carillons

"Were they making him not nice?"

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jovahs_heiress

"Yes. They are not themselves very nice, and Nathaniels don't react to that the same way that Jokers do."

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carillons

Ariel contemplates this, then says, "It's good you got him away, then."

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jovahs_heiress

"Yes. So, those are the broad strokes of the story."

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carillons

"And it's secret from people who don't know it," says Ariel. "And you and Daddy and Alleya and Keziah and Damaris know it. And Nathaniel but he's not here."

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jovahs_heiress

"And Serah, and Caleb, and Daniel, and Elisha, and Alleya's children, and Delilah but Delilah only found out recently so she is still adjusting and hasn't decided how to tell her husband yet."

Edited Date: 2013-07-12 01:31 am (UTC)

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carillons

Ariel nods.

"Okay," she says. "I won't tell anyone who's not one of those."

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jovahs_heiress

"Thank you, treasure." Forehead-kiss.

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carillons

She smiles.

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jovahs_heiress

"Do you have any questions?"

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carillons

She thinks about it, and then shakes her head.

"Not now," she says.

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jovahs_heiress

"All right. And now that you know," Isabella adds with a wink, "if you think of something that should be solved with magic that no one who doesn't know about it would notice, you can tell me, and I can fix it." [And you can tell me privately, like this. Everyone who knows about magic can do this.]

Edited Date: 2013-07-12 01:37 am (UTC)