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Eventually Bella and Lexi go to bed - they have to coordinate this; Bella's a reasonably sound sleeper but Lexi's not, so if Bella goes to sleep first Lexi won't be able to drop off with all the random nouns and if Bella goes to sleep second Lexi will wake up when she's trying to sneak around. They get up, and they get ready for school.
+Morning, Brilliance,+ says Bella while she's brushing her teeth.
incanted
cardistry
...Ice cream.
Ice cream.
Brilliance sinks down slowly in his seat, making an expression of unalloyed bliss around the spoon in his mouth.
Ice cream.
Brilliance sinks down slowly in his seat, making an expression of unalloyed bliss around the spoon in his mouth.
incanted
"My device, and you're my sister but that doesn't mean it's okay for random people to be mean to you, just because it would be more relevant if it was me being mean to you."
cardistry
He gives Bella a warm smile made only somewhat ridiculous by the spoon sticking out of it.
lexicality
"Well, your device decided to move into our house and eat our ice cream," says Lexi. "It's weird, why doesn't he be a pack of cards?"
incanted
"Sometimes he's a pack of cards and sometimes he's human-shaped, we can buy more ice cream, come on."
incanted
"If that becomes a problem I will find some way to cheat outrageously at some job with magic and earn plenty of money so I can feed the guy who is teaching me magic, okay? You don't have to worry about it, you just have to be civil."
cardistry
...The emotional tone of this conversation is making Brilliance's ice cream less enjoyable.
He puts the spoon back in the bowl.
He puts the spoon back in the bowl.
lexicality
"Fine, do whatever, your device," mutters Lexi, "I got possessed for you, by your device, now I have to make nice to it, sure, Bella's the smart one." She scoops up her ice cream bowl and tromps upstairs with it.
incanted
Bella picks up her head again and takes another spoon of ice cream.
"Did you possess my daughter?" Charlie asks Brilliance.
"Did you possess my daughter?" Charlie asks Brilliance.
cardistry
"We kind of both got possessed by the same thing," he says, giving Bella one last petpet and then going back to his own ice cream. "It's dead now, I got Bella to help me kill it."
incanted
"...You've been killing things?" Charlie asks Bella.
"I killed a magical program gone rogue that was possessing Lexi and trying to destroy the world, it's not like the neighbors' cats have gone missing," Bella says.
"...Okay then." Charlie finishes his soup and wanders away.
"I killed a magical program gone rogue that was possessing Lexi and trying to destroy the world, it's not like the neighbors' cats have gone missing," Bella says.
"...Okay then." Charlie finishes his soup and wanders away.
incanted
"Yeah, and she was trying to do something nice for me, and now I've been kind of ignoring her to talk to you."