"Intelligence, literal-mindedness, it's one of about forty daemon types associated with being a bad driver - my information is out of date but I think there was actually a supported correlation with asexuality. Personal isolationism, or self-sufficiency, depending on whether you're talking to someone who approves of introversion."
"That's about par for the course with daemon stereotypes, yeah."
"Intelligence," says Tilly.
Agent Honey just smiles.
"So you're not asexual? Because Glass has been trying to pin down what purples and greens have in common besides looking purple or green to her metacausality-sight and one thing that keeps turning up in purples is bisexuality, but reportedly you're purple."
"...Has someone been theorizing that we're asexual before it came up just now?" wonders Tilly.
"I was suspending judgment, given you're all single and asking Celo would be hypocritical."
"If there's a purple pattern for experiencing attraction to multiple genders, we don't break it," says Matilda.
"I wonder if the ones of you who are books do the same thing," giggles Aegis.
Rose is the first Bell in this batch to be wordlessly un-levitated.
"About in the middle between Juliet and Glass," says Agent Honey.
"I wonder what causes the different results. You can't tell?"
"There's theories at home," says Matilda, "but I don't think they apply very well to the situation at hand. You're really unlikely to vary that widely in relevant personality factors, for example."
Rose laughs a little. "Yes, rather. Maybe when we've all got as much of this magic as we're going to something will make itself obvious."
"Maybe!" she says agreeably. "Or maybe Glass will get something."
Rose nods. She swaps her book for one on Wellspring magic. When Tab leans in her direction, she waves it to within Tab's aura range momentarily and then goes back to reading it.
"Huh," says Amariah. "Glass-Rose-me isn't an obvious lineup of any characterstic."
"You've got about the same properties as Rose," says Tilly, "but your perception is a little higher and your entanglement a little lower. It's not a big difference; a less sensitive reading might not even pick up on it."
Next is Sarion, a few minutes later. "Same category as the other two," says Agent Honey, "but with slightly lower perception and noticeably higher entanglement."