ma fête

[beheld_beauty]

Belle allows Jane to handle the guest list, and warns the kitchen that it will be serving many people, and makes sure that the living gardens are behaving themselves about maintaining paths for people to walk along, and she comes up with an enchantment to augment the castle's set of behavior so it can offer up appropriate music at appropriate times. She flies to Luc's village, and fetches him back, and tells him of the coming festivities, and assigns him to develop an introductory description of what enchanting is so that she can delegate tedious repeated introductory descriptions of it to him. Jane gives her advance notice of the nametag conventions, and she considers an enchanting solution but does not think it is best suited; she wishes the system into place instead.

She does like having wishes.

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[beheld_beauty]

Wheeeee!

[mind_game]

[Some people are ready. Are you ready for them?] Jane inquires.

[beheld_beauty]

"Yes," laughs Rose, beaming, aura radiant with happiness. "Send them in."

[deslandes]

Beast kisses Rose's forehead when he sets her down.

[autokinetic]

All

[bellfounding]

the

[cross_and_bow]

Bells

[dark_light]

arrive

[jovahs_heiress]

at

[luminous_regnant]

the

[self_composed]

same

[she_sells_seashells]

time.

[her_imperial_radiance]

And some family members.

[temporal_affairs]

And some friends.

[manofmyword]

And some Jokers, of whom the eponymous is the first to converge on Beast.

"Hi, you!" he says. "Where's my hug?"

[deslandes]

Laughing, Beast scooptwirls him too, and does the same with Queenie and Ghosty and Alice and Kas and Micaiah in turn. Sue he kisses.

[beheld_beauty]

"Welcome! I am Belle, or Rose," Rose calls to all the arrivals, lifting a few feet into the air so everyone can see her and vice-versa. "Please be aware that you can speak to the serving trays if you have need of something they haven't thought to supply; they do not speak but they listen."

[bellfounding]

"Aegis wasn't kidding about the aura!" exclaims Pattern.

[autokinetic]

"I can't make it work, though," says Aegis, "it doesn't go if I try, it seems like it's not a wishable, just an enchantress thing."

[nonbird]

"Ooh," says Lazarus. "I can see that."

[beheld_beauty]

"Can you?" asks Rose, landing in such a way as to face him.

[self_composed]

"Tell us, tell us," laughs Stella.

[nonbird]

"I see magic," he explains to Rose. "Yours is very different from minting. It's more... hmm, autonomous?"

[beheld_beauty]

"I control spells as I cast them, but as long as I allow my aura free rein it does as it does without my controlling it except in certain details," agrees Rose. "And things like the living castle also have something of a personality. How is it that you see magic?"

[nonbird]

"I'm an ingot. That's my power," he says. "Coins can't wish for personalitied things. They have some decisionmaking power, but it has to be pretty well specified in advance."