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.

Comments

[nonbird]

"I can imagine it would be," he says. "Also, ooh."

[cross_and_bow]

"On the opacity spectrum I'm one of the more opaque - me and Golden are the ones Sue can't link," says Juliet. "You might be able to check some of the others."

[jovahs_heiress]

"Me, for example, I have no native defense," Angela offers. "If you can't actually read my mind by doing this..."

[beheld_beauty]

"I can read my husband's mindscape, but it required me to cast a spell first," Rose says. "I will be able to see what shape the mindscape takes, but not know what thoughts are moving through it." She backs away from Lazarus's mindscape and peers at Angela's, then reports, "Furnished - caves, of sorts, in a mountain, and background music."

[jovahs_heiress]

"The Eyrie," concludes Angela, smiling.

[manofmyword]

"Ooh, do me, do me," says the Joker from where he is snuggling Beast.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose, obligingly, has a look.

[manofmyword]

The Joker's mind is a dirty, run-down city on a smallish island-and-a-half, bordered by water on every side.

[beheld_beauty]

"A city," says Rose, unable to come up with polite terms for the condition of said city. "On two islands, one smaller than the other."

[she_sells_seashells]

"I've been to the Eyrie, and it's big, but it's not city-sized," says Shell Bell. "Does that mean anything?"

[beheld_beauty]

"There's no - sizes in mindscapes," says Rose. "They all go down to arbitrary levels of detail. The seeing-presence can always take in the whole thing as though it were tiny or the smallest piece as though it were enormous. The real city, if it's a real city, may well be larger than the Eyrie, but the dreamworlds that resemble them are not meaningfully larger or smaller than each other."

[manofmyword]

"I'm Gotham," he says, laughing.

[gunpowdergelatine]

"What about me?" says Queenie.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose checks Queenie too.

[gunpowdergelatine]

Queenie's mindscape is a lot like the Joker's, but worse. And some of the buildings are different, and some of the streets have a patchy look to them as though assembled from disparate pieces of city.

[beheld_beauty]

"It's - approximately the same city. It is - in poorer condition. If I didn't know better I'd think you'd been someone's unwilling channel and were damaged by it."

[autokinetic]

"What about me, can you do me?" Aegis wants to know.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose attempts it. "I see a wall," she says. "A metal spherical wall, with bolts and rivets. There's - a door, but it doesn't open for me."

[autokinetic]

Aegis tilts her head. "That's Sue's door. Now it's yours too long as you're only gonna tell me what my head looks like."

[beheld_beauty]

"Stars," says Rose after a moment. "Inside the wall is a field of stars."

[pythbox]

"Awwwwww," says Sue.

[edgeofyourseat]

"What's mine?" wonders Alice.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose laughs. "I suppose this is my party trick, is it?" And she looks at Alice's mindscape too.

[edgeofyourseat]

Alice's mindscape is a small underground suite of rooms with a central staircase spiraling up out of the middle.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose describes it.