"What exactly is our goal here?" says Agent Honey.

"I need to be not in Aegis - and Sue if I am at all in Sue, we don't know - and in something else," says Jane, "so the something else can stay here and not go to horrible Janebreaking worlds."

"So that's not solely a matter of Device engineering," says Agent Honey.

"Nah, we'll have to wish it," says Brilliance. "But we should probably do the engineering first. Jane, any preferences about what your dormant form's gonna look like?"

"Like a Janegem. Except it doesn't need to be in a piece of jewelry, I guess."

"Sure, okay," says Brilliance. "We can probably even install ansible links in it."

Adularia shimmers.

"So - Device body that is Jane, humanoid form with that face, Janegem dormant form, compatible with ansible installations? What am I missing?"

"Should I have any add-ons like you do? Like your coinsorter? Am I going to be able to do Rainbow magic?"

"You're going to be - oh," says Brilliance. "Yeah, shit - complex Devices kind of need wielders, you probably don't want that. The whole point of this is that you should be tucked up safe in the Belltower, not running around doing magic with somebody."

"Why don't I want that? They don't have to run around with me doing magic, do they? Whoever it was, probably Aegis or maybe Glass since she was planning to turn into a mage anyway?"

"Okay, but - you don't want to need a wielder, right?" he says. "Like, that is not a thing you would include on purpose, if you were designing this?"

"I don't want to need anything," says Jane. "But needing a wielder sounds easier to handle than needing food and sleep and climate control, so being a complex Device might still be a better deal than being a biological."

"I'm gonna try to wish it so you don't need a wielder," says Brilliance. "Because I don't know how that kind of need would work with you being the way you are, and I don't want it to fuck things up. Okay?"

"Okay. Why, is it that bad?"

"It's not bad," he says. "Not always. But I mean - that's me. I have my Aurora and we work the way we work. I think if you needed a wielder, having somebell link up to you and then never do magic with you might not cut it, and then it could get pretty bad, and I don't want that."

"Okay. I'll defer to your Devicive expertise."

Matilda shakes her head.

"Awesome!" says Brilliance.

"Yeah, you sure did move," says Sue.

"Hi, parentals," Jane says, waving.

"Hi!" says Sue. "Can I hug you?"