"Do you know how many colours there are? Like, it's either you or Jacob."

"Well he can copy me if he wants..."

He smiles warmly. "But it's still yours. And it's sooooo pretty."

She beams.

"Also, I wouldn't complain if I was the second most powerful Miracle ever."

Giggle.

"Maybe we should go ask William to help think up tests and stuff. He's smart."

She makes a face. "I don't like him very much."

"I'm sure he's okay once you get to know him."

"Oh yeah? Did you get to know him?"

"Not yet. Been kinda busy with your power. Still, I'd hate to be lonely here."

Sigh. "Fine I guess."

"You're real nice, you know that?"

They head for William's usual haunt.

William is playing chess, checkers, Uno, and an old videogame with himself.

"Doesn't this defeat the purpose?"

"What purpose?" one of the checkers ones asks.

"Well, the point of games is that you're doing something fun with someone else. Companionship. Also, challenge. You know what moves you're gonna make against yourself."

"I don't always know," he reasons.

"Why not?" asks Carol.

"Well, I need to predict what he's thinking in response to what I'm thinking but I can always only go one step less than him," another explains.

"If it makes you happy," says Maurice. "Hey, do you mind helping me and Carol test her power? We've just been seeing what different colours do and writing them down, but we thought you might come up with some different tests."

Another clone emerges from one of the Uno players and walks over to them. "What you got so far?"

Around a hundred and twenty colours and their associated effects, jotted down in a school workbook with a dolphin sticker on it. 

He stares at the list. "Do you want me to just, what, suggest new colors?"

"Well, there's colors where we don't really know what they do," Carol explains, pointing some of them out. "It's hard to test. Like blood orange makes things stick to plants and only plants and I figured it out by accident."

"Huh."

"We were kind of hoping you would be smart all over it."

"Well I can be smart all over it! This one," he taps, "what've you tried so far?"

"It doesn't stick to anything," Carol explains, "doesn't change gravity or weight or taste or make you faint or..."

"We threw it at some trees and they were fine."