[She takes a deep breath before scrubbing at her face, and tries to find a way to put all of this into a cohesive story. She's not sure she can - she doesn't have enough of the pieces from Reginald beyond what he told her, but she's going to try.]

There's this thing called the Seven Bells. It's one of those stories that just gets repeated over and over again, constantly changing but it all says the same thing in the end? Find the signs and you can get whatever your heart's desire granted to you. And it's guarded by these three guardians that we had to distract while Dad was trying to find the Bells.

But he needed certain things in order to make it work. Seven ... sacrifices, with the particles that give us our powers. That's why there's always been seven of us.

[Seven children, seven sacrifices. The math adds up, though not until she was looking at it with all the details.]

Anyway, Dad found it, built the Hotel around it to protect it, and started collecting everything he needed.