Clouds produce a sort of rolling leitmotif with variations and a harmony an octave down for the grey bits.
"They don't look like magic until you activate them," she whispers, "so you can open them in front of people not in the know just fine."
"Good, my friends don't get to know yet," Mehitabel whispers back, and out loud she thanks everyone who gots her things and opens many books and a pair of shoes advertising non-slip grip and a bunch of hair scrunchies and a new raincoat and also her magic things.
Horace's magic thing is a complex wooden three-dimensional puzzle. Andrea's magic thing is a very nice digital watch in black with six rhinestones in the primary and secondary colors on the bezel.
Mehitabel thinks she knows what the watch maybe does and can't wait to find out about the puzzle! "Thank you so much!"
And there is pizza and cake and ice cream and a decorous number of party games and then everyone jokes about leaving Mehitabel to read all her books and shoos.
"Guess what they do!" Andrea exclaims.
The watch: functions as a normal watch, until you switch to one of the various adjust settings modes, at which point you touch the rhinestone that corresponds to the sense you want (yellow for sight, green for smell, blue for taste, purple for touch, red for hearing) to translate, and then whatever senses you want to translate it to, and then you touch the orange one to pick a new sense to translate, and then you use the watch buttons to set how long you want it to last.
"Thanks! I've been working on it for a while, actually, and you liked the synesthesia spell so I figured the prototype would be a good present. Let me know if it's buggy."
"You're welcome. Grandfather's puzzle makes a sort of wooden doll thing when you put it together, and if there aren't any pieces missing or anything it'll obey rudimentary commands."
"Doesn't work if there's even one piece out of place, but once it's put together the enchantment makes it really hard to fall apart without being deliberately disassembled."
"Is it also puzzle-y or is it easy?" Mehitabel wonders aloud, unboxing it and attempting to put it together.
"It's pretty puzzle-y, but not, like, five hundred piece jigsaw puzzle or anything."