"I think I like our magic better."

"It seems more useful, all three of it."

"And less hazardous."

"Yeah. They really should have been taking better care of those artifacts but then I suppose the van would've just hit me and I'd be dead."

"I'm glad you're not dead."

"Me too."

The problem with snuggling someone is that you cannot take the action "hug them in response to a thing." Hm.

Well, she could squeeze Annie more. Annie would not mind.

Yes, that seems to be the answer to this conundrum, at least for the moment. Maybe Edie can think of a better one later.

Ee squeezes.

Annie is awfully satisfying to hug.

Oh good.

...satisfying is not the word she would use about hugging Edie but Edie is definitely nice to hug.

Good! Hugging is important, it wouldn't be good if she were bad at an important thing.

"What do I need to know to, um, move into your house?"

"Need to know?"

"House rules type stuff."

"Uh, don't leave the front door open if it's hot enough to run air conditioning or cold enough to run the heater, if you finish something put it on the grocery list, if you come in after anyone else is asleep be careful not to make a lot of noise?"

"Okay. ...You sure your parents will be okay with me just sort of living in their house?"

"It's plausible they might ask you to chip in on groceries if you get a source of income but I don't really expect it."

"I should probably contemplate getting a source of income. Is it socially unacceptable in any way to just go poke people in hospitals and take donations?"

"I wouldn't call it reliable but no, that's fine."

"Well, I could charge, but it just doesn't take that long to poke somebody, if it doesn't net me enough spending money I can accept money to fly to distant locations for patients who can't be moved and stuff."

"If you're going to charge for it instead of doing volunteering and voluntary donations you need to have tests run and get a license."

"Oh. Fair enough, I suppose I can't just get a note from the Dean saying that the artifacts I touched do thus and such."

"The Dean?"