That's okay, they're gonna get impatient all by themselves.
They hold out three days, and then Cam and Amariah talk, and determine that while Cam might be "the diplomatic one" (as Bells go), this is reasonably likely to come to violence or at least a pissing contest, and Amariah's credentials there are better.
And, it goes unsaid but acknowledged - Amariah has done the great work on her world. Her people are, in the main, taken care of. Jane doesn't metaphysically depend on her, either.
Amariah could - if it came to it - be most easily spared of the available Bells.
Path is left in Aether's room. And Celo is asked for an introduction.
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They hold out three days, and then Cam and Amariah talk, and determine that while Cam might be "the diplomatic one" (as Bells go), this is reasonably likely to come to violence or at least a pissing contest, and Amariah's credentials there are better.
And, it goes unsaid but acknowledged - Amariah has done the great work on her world. Her people are, in the main, taken care of. Jane doesn't metaphysically depend on her, either.
Amariah could - if it came to it - be most easily spared of the available Bells.
Path is left in Aether's room. And Celo is asked for an introduction.