"What kind of detail are you looking for?"

"My stupid artifact effect wants to know if I can be magically attached to Edie."

"Ah. Sorry. If it didn't happen when you activated it's not going to. Unless we figure out a way to change that, but so far I've never heard of someone magically joining a team."

"Okay. Not-stupid-artifact-effect-Annie would be kind of freaked out by fusing anyway."

"Fair enough. It's hard to maintain, anyway, for most teams."

"...it was very confusing for the artifact effect."

"...That makes sense. Because it wasn't sure if it was me, or because it was only partly me, or...?"

"It was sure you were in there and that the fusion needed to be safe at all costs, but was deeply conflicted about what intensity of importance to ascribe to any of her other properties."

"Well, as you get to know us better, maybe it'll be less confused."

"Probably."

"Some of our traits seem to combine in non-naive ways, though, so I don't know if it'll ever be perfect."

"Like what?"

"Like, Emily's sort of cheerful-by-default, and I get really passionate about stuff, and what that means for Lady Ironheart is that when she's not in situations like the one you saw her in she spends a lot of time really enthusiastic about things."

Annie giggles.

"It's pretty great, yeah."

"And then you just both remember everything she did like it was you?"

"Yeah."

"While you're her do you remember each other's memories?"

"Yeah, but there's less total--cross-contamination, I guess, than it sounds like."

"So you don't keep them, maybe unless you think about them while you're her or they're needed to contextualize something she does?"

"Exactly."

"Seems awfully - designed. Is the thing that gives the powers actively involved in crafting the spells?"

"It seems likely."

"I would probably have interrogated the thing, or tried, if I hadn't been in kind of a panic when it tapped me."

"People have actually tried that, it doesn't work very well."