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Bella inventories the staff. She uses power from her marble, not because she's drained or needs a lot but because she's hoping to coax the staff into being helpful.
She finds two minimally useful divinations in the hour she's allotted to this project, and she takes an extra hour to wheedle them into knitting together, infusing a spare lens, and accepting power from the marble and only when looked through instead of from the staff and continuously. She puts the new lens - now a dark amber color - on the arm of her spectacles, and tests it out. Yes, she can see the staff calling for magic and her protections and the forest denying it with enough gentleness that it doesn't simply die. She feeds the staff a little personal witchery - she doesn't want it to die before she can really get to work on taking it apart - and then wraps it up and puts it away.
She goes looking for Tony.
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Bella leans on the door of the kitchen and watches it behave itself for Sherlock. "It smells good," she observes.
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"I'm going to be going along on a delegation to have a second look at that wizard colony," Bella says. "As a sort of prelude to politics lessons."
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"I do too. Anyway, now I have two new lenses on my spectacles to have a better look at the magic around the place. Tony helped with one, saved me at least a week of wrestling with dwarf magic."
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Bella grins and returns the favor in a quick peck, but doesn't attempt to further distract her intended with physical affection. This time.
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Bella supervises hungrily. When dinner's ready, she follows Sherlock to the dining room.
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"Mmmm," sighs Bella after her first bite of dinner, and she leans over and kisses Sherlock on the cheek again before falling to in earnest.
Between dinner and desert, Bella ventures to say: "Your Majesty, I was able to get some divinations out of the wizard staff and put them into a lens, and Tony was able to help me finish a dwarven lens as well, so I'm a bit ahead of schedule. After I finish my new pair of moccasins, probably tomorrow midday, I was wondering if there was any chance I could have a look at the sword?"
Between dinner and desert, Bella ventures to say: "Your Majesty, I was able to get some divinations out of the wizard staff and put them into a lens, and Tony was able to help me finish a dwarven lens as well, so I'm a bit ahead of schedule. After I finish my new pair of moccasins, probably tomorrow midday, I was wondering if there was any chance I could have a look at the sword?"
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"With the spectacles I can see a lot of details about magic things," Bella explains. "I just want to look at it and take notes, I know perfectly well I can't touch it now."
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"Actually, the original reason I left home was to have a look at the Skyvault. There was no question of anybody marrying me till a bit later," Bella says conversationally with a smile at Tony.