Baby Tooth slipped into the room, giggling as she spun around Jack's head.
She was far too big now to be cradled in his hands, closer to the size and coloring of a blue jay now than a hummingbird. Jack suspected she was trying to stay this size, where she was still small enough to hitch rides on him but big enough to command attention.
Baby Tooth was wearing a little tiara of her own, a mix of flowers and snowflakes to tie together both Toothiana and Jack, and a little dress, soft and flowing. She gave a little twirl as Jack cooed over how adorable she was.
The other girls had dresses of their own – there was a group of yeti obsessed with everything miniature who had jumped at the chance to create a set of tiny dresses – but only Rani had a dress like this one, in purples and blues, with swirls of snowflakes and a tiny row of stylized teeth along the neckline.
Rani chirped out a question, hovering in front of Jack.
He grinned back, nodding. "Yeah, I am ready," he said. "Are they?"
Rani giggled again before spinning with joy.
Jack tilted his head, listening as the music outside changed. "There's my cue," he said, gripping his staff and taking a deep breath. "Let's do this."
Normally, the amount of people looking at him would make Jack quail for a moment before puffing himself up with bravado, not quite used to the attention he craved just yet.
But today, he only had eyes for the six at the end of the Great Hall waiting for him.
The only reason he had decided to walk down the aisle was so he would have a good chance to see them and be seen in return, after all.
Tooth was wearing a sari, one that picked up the colors of her feathers and shifted colors in the light just as they did, bordered in a thick band of gold thread. A crown encircled her head, a diadem that dipped over her forehead and left her head feathers free, a grander decoration than the gemstones that sparkled along its golden band.
Bunny was in a long, green coat, one that was closed up the front. A broad sash encircled his waist, and the embroidery on the coat seemed to sparkle in the light while the thick fluff and rich velvet made Jack want to run his hands all over that coat.
North wasn't in a coat, to Jack's vague surprise, but the heavily embroidered tunic and sash more than made up for it, and even from here Jack could pick out not just Christmas symbols in the embroidery, but Bunny's markings, teeth, swirls of dreamsand and snowflakes.
Nightlight was in dress armor, softly glowing metal with a tunic over top, with the Guardian's symbol embroidered on it, dark blue material with silver edges and embroidery.
He straightened as Jack caught his eye and beamed, glowing brighter.
Sandy was glowing as brightly as Nightlight, his usual sand pajamas replaced with what Jack would swear was a regency era suit, also made of sand.
Katherine's dress was the one Jack and Nightlight had glimpsed so briefly that awkward, awkward day. Long and of dark blue velvet, full skirted and long sleeved yet with bare shoulders and a sash much like Jack's at the waist, only in silver rather than white, and with her hair loose, held back with a small tiara and veil, something short and flowing in silver, she looked to Jack's eyes like a fairytale princess.
