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It's three in the morning in the Swan household, and someone is crying quietly in the living room.
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incanted
Bella gets out plates, and slices another pat of butter for the next batch of cakes, and peers under the edge of the banana pancake with a nudge of her spatula, and taps her foot, and then plates the pancakes, one, two, three. "Syrup in the fridge if you want it," she tells him, and she melts the new butter. "Lexi, apples, bananas, chocolate?"
incanted
Lexi gets her stack of apple pancakes in due time, and by then Charlie has wandered in, pleasantly surprised. He gets the rest of the banana slices on his pancakes, and Bella makes herself two apple and one chocolate.
incanted
The twins finish eating, and pack up, and go to school. Partway through the day, Bella notifies Brilliance by magephone that she won't be home till about five, as she is going home with Angela, +and I do want to be her friend and that implies a certain amount of hanging out.+ When Bella gets home, she fixes dinner, and then the family plus Brilliance eats, and then there is some time for magic practice before it is the girls' bedtime.
lexicality
And at night, at about one a.m., Lexi wanders down the stairs.
She's a little surprised to see Brilliance hanging out in human form, but not enough to say anything about it. "Hey, um," she says. "I can't sleep. Thought I'd go flying. How do I - invisible? I know how to fly, Bella showed me, I don't know how to invisible."
She's a little surprised to see Brilliance hanging out in human form, but not enough to say anything about it. "Hey, um," she says. "I can't sleep. Thought I'd go flying. How do I - invisible? I know how to fly, Bella showed me, I don't know how to invisible."
cardistry
"You cast a barrier," he says. "Shouldn't need much of one if it's just for yourself. Barriers are what make things invisible; what's outside can't see what's inside. There's no incantation, but I bet you can do it anyway."
lexicality
Lexi thinks. Eventually, she manages it. "Like - that? Am I invisible?" Oh, he's not there anymore. Lexi figures that probably means it worked. She goes out the door and lifts up onto her toes and says "flight" and heads up towards the stars.
She flies for a long time, slow lazy circles over Forks. It's peaceful and easy and it's pleasantly chilly up there, even though she got her coat on first and her slippers are usually toasty.
Eventually she thinks she'll be able to get back to sleep, and she heads back towards the house.
It's been a little too long.
Her mana supply shorts out, and she's not conscious when she lands at the end of the lawn with a thump.
She flies for a long time, slow lazy circles over Forks. It's peaceful and easy and it's pleasantly chilly up there, even though she got her coat on first and her slippers are usually toasty.
Eventually she thinks she'll be able to get back to sleep, and she heads back towards the house.
It's been a little too long.
Her mana supply shorts out, and she's not conscious when she lands at the end of the lawn with a thump.
lexicality
Lexi is crumpled in a shape humans do not healthily occupy, passed out, a heap of parka and tangled brown hair.
cardistry
"Awww shit no," mutters Brilliance, crouching down by her side. "Awwww shit no." His spell diagram unfolds beneath them. "Be okay," he says desperately, and casts.
Lexi glows like a tiny sunrise. The spell pours through her, absolutely without finesse, soothing and repairing all the damage it can find. It barely asks for any supervision. He does the best he can with what little it needs.
Lexi glows like a tiny sunrise. The spell pours through her, absolutely without finesse, soothing and repairing all the damage it can find. It barely asks for any supervision. He does the best he can with what little it needs.
cardistry
"Yep," says Brilliance. "You fell there. Got kinda fucked up when you landed, but I fixed you."
He looks tired.
He looks tired.
cardistry
"Dunno," he says. "I didn't see. Maybe you ran out of mana; you've been flying for a while."
lexicality
"Is that a thing? Bella didn't tell me that was a thing." Lexi sits up, slowly, and shivers a little and gets to her feet.
lexicality
"I guess she didn't - think I'd do a lot of magic?" Lexi tests her footing, and heads for the door. "I wasn't going to really - didn't plan this - thanks for fixing me -"
