Mmmmmm.

Takes her a while after Ellie gets tired to start being coherent again. She mostly stares at the ceiling or at her girlfriend, grinning dreamily.

Yeah, that's pretty much the mood.

Much good Ellie. Best. Snuuuuugggleees.

Ruby's not so bad herself.

Ruby isn't 'not so bad;' Ruby is best pet. They've already established this, silly.

Best pet, then. Pet pet.

Purrrrrrrrr.

She's so happy she has a Ruby.

Nuzzle. She's both very happy to have an Ellie and very happy to belong to an Ellie. Is best.

Snuggles would be better with a tiger.

Yesssss. Fluffy flop! And now she can purr so much more loudly.

Tiger pillow best pillow.

Sleepy tiger, too.

Gotta sleep before jet setting around tomorrow, after all.

Sleep, yes. Good idea. Ellie curls up around her tiger as she drifts off.

In the morning: "What do you wanna do today, darling?"

"I kind of feel like robbing a bank."

Giggle. "Let's!"

"Show me the way, o wisest of pets."

"Well first, are we walking in or are we hacking? Or perhaps a mixed approach?"

"Let's hack."

"Well, fortunately we're above a coffee shop, so we'll be well supplied in the 'too many coffee cups' aesthetic... Did you bring your laptop, or do you wanna use mine?"

"I did bring my laptop. Because I planned for this." She gets it out.

Heh.

She gets her own laptop - gets coffee while it's booting - and: magical hacking! The easiest way to do this is just to abuse the shit out of divination. First, pick a target. Once you're familiar with how rich people do their security, you can select someone off a list of CEOs and such, but you can also divine for lists of accounts with low security and high value. Second means more up front work, first can mean more work later on. Ruby prefers 'finding a specific rich asshole' for aesthetic reasons and also because it's usually higher value per effort put in.

Then, figure out what your target's security looks like, plan a hard to trace trail, and start moving money. The low value easy way to do this is just getting an ATM to spit out cash up to the set limit, but that rarely nets more than a couple hundred to a couple thousand at a go. Good for pocket change during a trip, though, and probably the best for a first try?

The first magic lesson they should probably work on is getting divination to spit out letters, numbers, and symbols in a convenient format. Hers just makes images in a candle flame.

Compass won't work for this.

Hm, what if... She writes a quick program to show a window full of static. And then her magic can flip the bits to make it show numbers and letters instead.

Oh, clever - knowing how computers actually work probably helps with this...

But that's a pretty good method of divination, and can provide more information at once than Ruby's.

Anyone in particular Ellie feels like robbing?