"It's not that bad."
"I wonder if the Wild Magic had this in mind," she laughs softly, "when it sent you to see if I needed help."
She reaches for the coins, but doesn't pick any up. "You should probably carry some of these yourself, for when you travel, in case there is no time to call me for help or I am busy - I do not know how many would be best."
"I have a magical coin sorter. It takes a hexagon to make one. Before this technique was designed, we used to carry our coins on bandoliers."
She picks up a hexagon; it disappears and then reappears in her other hand. "It stores the coins - tucked away where nothing can touch them until the person the sorter belongs to wants to retrieve them."
He wishes on one of his hexagons, and then slurps up about half the pile into his new coin-sorter. Hexagons continue tumbling from his hand onto what's left.
Isibel starts collecting the unslurped coins. With her other hand she takes and squeezes one of his.
Hugs? He thinks it is time for hugs. Hugs and hexagons.
Hugs and hexagons. Her coinsorter takes them from him as soon as they're made.
They're not! They are pointy and hard. Not soft and warm like the people who are currently snuggling.
Yes. This is good. He could get used to this.