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It's the Saturday before classes start. Ellie has been driving all day, but it's worth it for an entire three months out of the house. And she even drew a single in the dorm lottery, so there's that. It's tiny, but she doesn't have to share.
Suitcases on the bed, she starts unpacking into the dresser that lives underneath. Tops here, pants there, hanging things in the closet. Computer can go on the desk, and then notebooks into the drawers.
That's where it needs to be if it's going to really be useful to her.
Maybe if she touches it before sending it away, so it has some of the electricity that is her in it.
That helps some!
Focusing heavily on it - trying to sense through it - also seems to keep it more sustained.
Ruby, meanwhile, seems to be having an animated conversation with a tiger-headed woman made of smoke and ember.
Seems to actually be Ruby passing a talking to herself thread between two places - she sometimes messes up which body says something. Right now she's practicing discussing homework and, when she notices Ellie looking, cute girls.
"I started with switching which body I considered myself to be in, then have been just moving around where my thoughts are coming from? And I'm trying to ramp down from that, just spread out some of my proprioception and pay attention to which body I'm using."
Back to work, then. Following Ruby's example, she will work the angle of expanding her self-perception.
That seems to give her a lot more fine control and better range on the minion; the range of her electric sense also seems to now extend (somewhat weakly) out from the minion.
Good. She doesn't want to abandon her original body entirely, just... expand the definition.
The magic system doesn't seem to have a fundamental problem with her being co-located, or with her having a secondary location she can kind of be in.
Works, though it's a bit finicky to get things right, and the magic seems somewhat weaker.
Success! She sends the golem wandering over to Ruby, disguised as her human self.
Ruby has her double dancing through the woods, practicing fine control apparently.
She glances up at the golem.
"Did you figure things out yet?"
"I've kinda gotten it..."
The cinder-woman turns and smiles, a toothy grin, and then her face morphs more into a version of Ruby's human form, if Ruby's human form was also a cat demon.
Laugh. "Still, she can hold a pencil, and I can do magic through her, so it all works out."
Ellie lets the disguise on her minion drop, revealing the lightning cat demon beneath.
"It does."
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