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Bella goes to bed, happily exhausted. She can make stuff! Not a lot of stuff, not yet, but still. She will be able to solve Brilliance's food problem and if she can figure out how to scale up she will be able to solve the world's food problem.
The next day is, alas, also a school day. She bids Brilliance good morning while she brushes out her hair. +Hey you.+
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+'Kay.+
"You driving today or shall I?" Bella asks her sister while Lexi plops her egg onto a slice of bread and bites into it.
"You driving today or shall I?" Bella asks her sister while Lexi plops her egg onto a slice of bread and bites into it.
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"I'll do it. You never did copy down my math," says Lexi. "You can do it in the car."
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"Youuuu're welcome," trills Lexi. She licks a bit of runny yolk off her finger. "Let's get outta here."
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+Deck of cards?+ Bella cues Brilliance on the twins' way out.
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She pockets him and grabs her bag and hops into the passenger seat. She copies Lexi's math (judiciously introducing three mistakes and correcting two over the course of the translation) on the way to school.
School ensues.
School ensues.
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School ends.
+I can't keep copying Lexi's homework indefinitely or I'll start making a fool of myself in classes, I should do, like, an hours' worth sometime this afternoon and if I put it off I'm just going to get distracted by magic,+ Bella tells Brilliance as she gets in the driver's seat with Lexi in the passenger on the way home.
+I can't keep copying Lexi's homework indefinitely or I'll start making a fool of myself in classes, I should do, like, an hours' worth sometime this afternoon and if I put it off I'm just going to get distracted by magic,+ Bella tells Brilliance as she gets in the driver's seat with Lexi in the passenger on the way home.
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Bella and her sister do homework at the kitchen table, chatting companionably in half-sentences interpretable only to each other. Eventually Bella does what she deems to be enough, and she puts her schoolbooks back in her bag. "I think I'm gonna go," she tells Lexi.
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"Gonna go do magic, learn to save the world?" asks Lexi wryly.
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"Gonna go do magic, learn to conjure potatoes," amends Bella. "Saving the world might be trickier. But yeah, something like that. I'll see you later."
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"Right, well, see you later," says Lexi, "um, thanks for not instantly taking off?"
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"Device first!" he says, shifting to staff form and hovering beside her. "Pick some sand, make some glass."
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Bella picks up a little handful of sand between the bands of blue and green; it averages to a lovely aqua. She pools it into the middle of one hand and picks up Brilliance with the other and commands the sand to melt smoothly together into a droplet without heat. (And she pays attention.)
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The ensuing blob-with-a-hole-in-it is very pretty.
"Awesome," says Brilliance. "Okay," he shifts human and holds out his hand, "gimme."
"Awesome," says Brilliance. "Okay," he shifts human and holds out his hand, "gimme."
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He sits down in the sand and wraps his hands around it and closes his eyes.
It's not very interesting to look at.
It's not very interesting to look at.
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Bella clicks her heels together and murmurs "flight" and goes zooming about while he works.
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+Got it!+ he says after about half an hour.
The finished product is just the same blob of glass, but with a glint of multicoloured light somewhere in its depths.
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Bella lands next to him. "Will it talk at all, or just - be itself?" she asks. "Also I completely forgot to bring something to string it on, hmm."