"I can alllllways use helpers. Are you absurdly clumsy or terrible under pressure?"

"Well, now that you mention it, no and no."

"Then if nothing else, you can be a lookout."

"Sure."

"That said, I do still want your opinion on sneaky or not sneaky. Do you wanna see Pow-Pow in action?"

"...Hmm... sneaky, I think."

"Aw. Okay. Give me a sec, I gotta change." 

Jinx vanishes off into the bedroom, and there's a sound of running water.

Okay then.

A few minutes later, Jinx returns from the bathroom. Loose chestnut-brown hair spills down her back: she wears a shapeless sweater top and a pair of jeans, her gunsmoke tattoos almost entirely hidden by the dark fabric. She's not carrying Pow-Pow or Fishbones, but there's plenty of room in that top for her to hide her Zapper. 

"Alright. Let's get going, then."  

"Nice," says Ruava. "All right."

"I've got to at least be able to fake normalcy, right? Or did you think electric blue was my natural hair color?"

"It might've been!"

"Oh, right, other world. Nah, it's dye. Takes forever to maintain, but it's worth it."

Ruava looks at Jinx consideringly.

Now Jinx's hair is electric blue again! ...And glowing slightly.

"Wow, doing that with light manipulation is even harder than I thought..." She lets it go; the colour fades.

"Cute!" 

She grins.

"That could definitely be a useful trick if you practiced it. Disguise without the disguise."

"It's really hard. I might be able to figure out an easier way, but if I did it wouldn't work on myself, because I'm Light."

"... Could you maybe explain that a little more?"

"Sorry. Um—"

Now Ruava's hair is electric blue and glowing slightly. Now it's bright violet and glowing slightly. Now it's sunny orange-yellow and glowing slightly. Now it's ordinary black again.

"I can do that with lightshaping, because I'm a Light mage," she says. "But most of what a Light mage can do is magic that works on other people. So if I figured out how to do a disguise that wasn't insanely difficult and didn't make you glow, it would be from the works-on-other-people part of my magic, and I wouldn't be able to use it on myself."

"Huh. Weird. I guess that makes sense... and it does kinda explain why you can heal people with your light powers. Can you do other stuff?" 

"Yeah, but I don't know what yet."

"Wanna bet you're gonna get a lot of chances to find out?" 

She giggles.

Jinx smiles back. "Anyway! We should get moving. Oh, and take this." She holds out the silvery translation charm. "It makes a lot more sense for the person who needs translating to have the charm, right? You're probably gonna want to talk to somebody who isn't me eventually. Kinda hard to talk your way out of a jam when nobody can understand you, right?"