"If I want a magical girl outfit," he says, "I bet you I can get a magical girl outfit. Maybe not exactly the same kind, I guess."

"Yeah, not a magically designed one, you could wear whatever you want but it wouldn't just get pulled out of noplace like Bella's."

"Wonder if I could get one of the Jokers to make me one, I hear Jokers and clothes is a thing."

"Is it? Brilliance seems to just go around in that T-shirt with his deck of cards design on it and jeans."

"I mean," he amends, "there's a bunch of Jokers who like, make and design clothes, it's a common hobby with those guys, I don't know if Brilliance isn't into it or just hasn't gotten around to it or what."

"Huh." Lexi scuffs her foot on the floor. "I should have a hobby. I don't really, I used to do whatever Renée was doing, crafts and exotic kinds of yoga and whatnot, but nothing stuck."

"Can't help you there, unless you want to take up engineering," says Tony. "Or video games."

"I might like video games! We could never afford a system since Bella doesn't like them enough to ever pool our Christmas or birthday wishlists for it, but I used to like going over to friends' who had 'em," says Lexi. "Oh man, that's probably not even a problem any more, I can just," she brandishes her demo triangle, "magic up whatever."

"Okay, let's conjure a Super Nintendo and play Mario Kart," says Tony.

"Yeah!" Lexi picks a little more aggressively at her hangnail, gets enough squares to produce the TV and the console and the cartridge and the controllers, wishes them all into existence, and then makes two more squares so they can have a sofa too. She turns the whole setup on with her triangle, just for fun.

Tony beams and flops onto the couch and picks up a controller.

Lexi, predictably, plays as Princess Peach.

Tony giggles uproariously, and plays as Mario.

Lexi is reasonably good at Mario Kart considering her inexperience; she is a crack shot with green shells and after one false start rarely drives off the track.

Tony is... kind of unfairly good at Mario Kart.

"You must play this, like, constantly," complains Lexi, although she seems to be having fun anyway.

"Driving games are kind of my thing," he says. "Sherry bakes himself a cake every time he beats me."

"How many cakes is that now?"

"I'm not actually keeping count, but less cakes than he's had birthdays."

Lexi laughs. "Wow. Well, at least I can beat all the computer guys. Eventually." She's mostly coming in third or fourth.

"Coming in second to me in a Mario Kart race is an accomplishment!" says Tony.

"Cool, that's, like, my new life goal for the next hour."

"Good luck," Tony says cheerfully.

Lexi sticks her tongue out of the corner of her mouth and drives Princess Peach around with a will.

Tony continues to win! It's lots of fun.