+I think I'm going to pass for the time being, but I'm sure there will be plenty of chances later.+ Aegis wanders by to remind her to design a Janegem; she puts another charm on her hair elastic and Aegis ansibles it for her and wanders off. +I have a Janegem now.+
"You've seen the Joker... Kas and Petaal have cuddly auras too, but theirs tell you how much they want you to touch them... actually, all of them can have cuddly auras. Except the demon, he doesn't have one at all yet. But Jellybean's probably my favourite," he says, beaming. "He tastes like candy."
"I can see why he'd be your favorite," laughs Aurora. And then she accidentally has more mental image than she wanted of Brilliance finding Jellybean to taste like candy and changes the subject. "There's a page in the Bellbook about what everyone's auras do, apparently they only figured out Shell Bell's second effect today when she was able to get a door to here because it wasn't in the book when I read through it. I wonder what I should enchant. I guess I could just work on Origin Saturn like everyone else, but it's gotten pretty huge and no one is even really trying to live in it yet."
He's still a little scared of her, but he knows he doesn't have to be. She gives him all kinds of nice warm snuggly feelings. He wants to cuddle her forever, or maybe fuck her, or maybe eat all her food, or maybe make all her food. But 'forever' is definitely in there any which way.
He was never supposed to need a wielder; he was made to be controllably autonomous. But feeling her there on the other end of his magic is comfortable in a way he has never been before. Maybe this is what a properly matched connection is like, or maybe it's because he was cripplingly lonely for four hundred years, or maybe not having this is why he was cripplingly lonely for four hundred years. Or maybe it's just her. All he knows is, he likes it.
+Fuck, I have to boost processing if we're going to do this like so, I didn't even do that yet,+ she says dizzily, running a fingertip along the length of his arm with her eyes heavy-lidded. She swallows and pulls her hand back and closes the sending - and spends her hex - and then opens it again and pounces.