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Bella returns to Sunshine with her aura fully withdrawn - this is a little like keeping her eyes closed; not default, but not effortful either. It's just past dark when she reappears.
[I'm home,] she announces to everyone who's likely to wish updates on her whereabouts.
cross_and_bow
cross_and_bow
[Saturn looks great. Lots of neat bubbles of enchanted residential area and enchanted commercial area and enchanted resort area, floatily intersecting and splitting off in a lively fashion.]
eversomuchfun
[That sounds very charming,] he says. [And the other main objective of the expedition?]
cross_and_bow
[We've all got auras now. We don't know what all of them do apart from being auras - turns out the wind and plants are a Rose thing, not an everybody thing.]
eversomuchfun
[Juliet,] he says, [dear Juliet, did you by any chance acquire an aura of obtuseness?]
cross_and_bow
[Thaaaaat is not the word that Stella picked to describe it when she looked me over, no. I don't really like what I got.]
eversomuchfun
[I would be ever so grateful if you would tell me what word she did pick.]
cross_and_bow
Teleportation.
Juliet holds herself very small.
This doesn't actually affect the vengeful hellgoddess of flames and danger effect that pours off her when she lets her aura out; it's been built up more than enough to override body language.
She withdraws it after a second.
"Stella called it an aura of menace," she mutters.
Juliet holds herself very small.
This doesn't actually affect the vengeful hellgoddess of flames and danger effect that pours off her when she lets her aura out; it's been built up more than enough to override body language.
She withdraws it after a second.
"Stella called it an aura of menace," she mutters.
cross_and_bow
"Yeah. Um, the flames don't catch - at least not by default, they might do if it was convenient for me somehow. Auras are supposed to be convenient. Just, I wouldn't've asked for this one."
cross_and_bow
"I could see it coming in handy if I have to convince demons that I'm a force to be reckoned with. Which I'll probably have to do. So there's that. But I think I'll probably just keep it withdrawn otherwise."
cross_and_bow
"...Oh."
Pause.
"I probably would've predicted that under other circumstances."
Pause.
"I probably would've predicted that under other circumstances."
cross_and_bow
"It is a bit. I probably still don't want to walk down the street with it on, but, um, what are your preferences for when it's just us?"
cross_and_bow
"I didn't even turn it up all the way. It's like having my eyes open or closed, apart from there being no equivalent to blinking - I can also flare it, like opening my eyes extra-wide." Pause. "Wanna see?"
cross_and_bow
Aura out.
Aura up. There's a line of fire from her middle fingertips up her arms and across the back of her shoulders and her eyes glow -
Just a brief burst, and then she tucks it away again and squirms.
Aura up. There's a line of fire from her middle fingertips up her arms and across the back of her shoulders and her eyes glow -
Just a brief burst, and then she tucks it away again and squirms.
