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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.
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Bella finishes hers. "Lexi cooked, so it's my turn to do the dishes. Unless there's a spell for it," she adds.
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"I don't have one on hand," he says. "I could make one, but I'd probably wanna practice it on dishes nobody cared about first."
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"Would it meaningfully affect the spell if you practiced on, like, paper plates? Would it transfer?"
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"Good question! I think paper plates might need a different spell," he says. "They don't get dirty the same way, you know?"
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"All right, maybe at some point I'll swing by the thrift store and get some random dishes. In the meantime..." She turns on the sink and starts scrubbing.
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Bella pats him and heads up the stairs to talk to Lexi.
She's back down a few minutes later. "She doesn't wanna talk about it right now. But she says I can copy her math homework if I want, so at least she's not too mad at me. Wanna go to the World of Colorful Sand?"
She's back down a few minutes later. "She doesn't wanna talk about it right now. But she says I can copy her math homework if I want, so at least she's not too mad at me. Wanna go to the World of Colorful Sand?"
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"I wanna invent a spell to be a line of defense against any environmental hazards you weren't in a position to notice - but before I start trying stuff - is my mana at capacity?"
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"Okay, cool." Bella has produced a list of things on an uninhabited planet that could harm her. She gets the notebook containing this list, finds it, memorizes it, thinks hard about wanting all those things to leave her alone, and attempts to incant:
"Safety."
"Safety."
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"Something unusual about how that worked?" Bella asks, looking at the pretty shimmer. "Ooh, I'm shiny."
cardistry
"...Some," he says. "More than flying. Want me to work it up into something I can maintain for you?"
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"It's harder than I thought," he says. "I don't see it as numbers, I just feel it. ...Could you pick me up? I feel weird just hanging here. And I can get a closer look at the spell if we're in contact."