"That looks different from how you usually do it."

"Yeah," he says. "I'd done pointy things on, like, pyramids and stuff, but I hadn't done a bunch of little things or more– intricate designs, so I decided to try it."

Seems he can do it rather well.

Lumen! It's fun!

It is, actually! Kinda surprisingly so, especially since she has fairylights.

Well, she already knows how to do fairylights. Learning new things is fun. But lumen practice benefits from breaks so she also does other stuff.

"… You know how you said if my magic were better than just lights you'd think about storming Queenscourt? I doubt it's good enough, but have your opinions on– whatever changed?"

"If you could control it I might be able to think of something but I don't think we can usefully work with uncontrollable duplication-and-vanishing."

He nods. "I'll see about that, then." Shrug. "Might be useful."

"And there's only two of you and we don't know how a food claim on you would interact with the body sharing."

"Mm. Should probably stay duplicated if we can do it again, I think, then we– maybe have a backup."

"Maybe. No way to test it - well, most of it, I could try feeding Blue, but only once."

"Yeah." He shrugs. "I don't know, he might be up for that, but it leaves a lot of stuff untested as you say."

"Yeah, we'd have to be betting on a really specific series of events to get the information necessary out of the one experiment and I don't have any other trustworthy fairies handy."

"Mm."

Back to water purification, then.