"Yaay I'm gonna be a guinea pig," she deadpans.

"We could try it on something else first, if you want?"

"I'm willing to be guinea pig for water and wounds," says Tyler.

"Are you hurt anywhere?"

"I'm hungry..."

"We just had dinner."

"I'm not injured, no, but it's not like that would be hard to arrange."

...well that's kinda hot, that he's so casual about that.

Willow and Kero have a whispered conversation and then she declares, "I'm gonna find something to eat," and marches off, followed by the bear.

"… Do you have anything sharp, then, or should I see if I can call upon fire to burn my palm?"

"...we have The Sword."

"I think that's a bit overkill."

He shrugs. "It can presumably do small cuts as well as large ones."

"… Presumably," says Theo a bit warily, getting it out of his bag. "Shame Kero isn't here to ask."

He also activates the key into the staff.

"Er, hey, didn't Kero mention something about the cards occupying one's magical capacity or something?"

"Um, yeah…?"

"So how does that interact with spells? ...for that matter, I'm using Change right now."

"… Uh, I don't think I get what prompted you to ask this. And I feel like it's relevant?"

"Like. I have a card active right now. So it's using some of my 'magical capacity,' whatever it is. Except I've apparently run out of mana. So how are they related, if at all, is what I'm thinking."

"… I could summon the Sword and try to run out of mana and then unsummon it and try again?"

"What do you expect to happen then?"

"Be able to do another spell or few? If he phrased it right, since it only takes up my magical capacity, doesn't run it down?"

"Oh. I guess you could try that."

So he tosses the card for the Sword out in front of him, then taps it with the staff and activates it.

And his staff becomes the sword.