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

[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.

[self_composed]

"Aww, it's your lair," says Stella. "My turn, my turn."

[beheld_beauty]

"I can't see yours either," Rose says after an attempt.

[yovahs_kisses]

"What about me?" says Micaiah.

[beheld_beauty]

What about him?

[yovahs_kisses]

His mindscape is... an entire continent, apparently.

[beheld_beauty]

"An island. A very large island, insofar as that means anything - I mean that I need to get quite close to be able to make out anything like individual towns," says Rose.

[bellfounding]

"I bet mine is boring," says Pattern.

[beheld_beauty]

"I don't think libraries are boring," says Rose after a moment.

[bellfounding]

That startles a laugh out of Pattern. "Sure. A library. Gray carpet and green armchairs?"

[beheld_beauty]

"Yes."

[bellfounding]

"Phoenix Public Library, I can live with that."

[yovahs_kisses]

"I bet mine is Samaria," says Micaiah, laughing.

[truthwright]

"What's mine?" wonders Kas.

The answer is: a composite city, vaguely reminiscent of Queenie's in that way but with smoother transitions, near water but not surrounded by it.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose starts to describe the city, then gives up and conjures an illusion of it with a square.

Amariah takes her turn next, and she has a forest, full of pine trees like the branch she carries with her.

Shell Bell turns out to have Milliways for a mindscape.

Golden is inaccessible as Juliet and Stella are.