Alicornutopia

There is not a Zev in this 'verse and it's not the first time (although it is the most necessary one).

Given bells' general attitude regarding notebooks, I am a little surprised that Iobel had such difficulty understanding Edarial's issue with number comparisons.

The numbers are not private. Adarins tell them to each other and to their objects, while Bells keep notebook-contents private to begin with.

Could a runecasting scroll incantation be in sign language?

I think so.

Hey, Alicorn, have some of my tears fresh from Gemini :(

Hey now! We're splitting those, fifty fifty! I like fresh tears, too! They are delicious.

Wait, is Rae going to acolyte Cricket? Because that sounded like Rae obliquely asking if it was safe to acolyte Cricket.

I have forgotten, is there a compelling reason for Katydid and Rain to not get daemons and then just separate and leave them cuddling somewhere very very safe, like in an underground shelter on Ice's world or under the Belfry or something? None of their personal enemies will know that daemons are a thing to want to go harm them, and no one on Ice's world is going to know about them to seek them out nor would they accidentally daemon-touch, and the entire Incandescent Peal will want to protect them, so the danger really seems very remote, while the benefits are possibly quite high. They could even potentially create magic items (linked mirrors, for example) or technology to allow their daemons to remotely keep tabs on them and communicate with them. Is there something I'm leaving out of my danger calculations or do they really find that very minuscule potential risk to be not worth the evident emotional-relational benefits? (They are probably more risk-averse than I am, so I suppose it really may be just that. It just seems silly to me, considering how much they harp on it and yet continue to dismiss it.)

Getting a daemon is irreversible, keeping them holed up forever with nothing to do sounds like it would be a bad idea, and the benefits aren't really that spectacular (most of the pairs don't have them; Ice and Cypress were just the ones to crash the picnic and loom particularly large as examples so they keep coming up in conversation). They also don't know what they'd get; one of them could wind up with a fish or something and make cuddling not particularly viable.