festive rainbow mirror summoning!

[incanted]

There are now one dozen Bells.

They and most of their friends are all here on Planet Rainbowsand II, to celebrate the addition of Sarion, the elf one, and Aurora, the one with a sister.

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[cardistry]

Suddenly cuddles!

[incanted]

Eeee, cuddles! Aurora needed cuddles. She melts right into cuddles.

[cardistry]

Mmmm snuggly cuddles.

+I want an enchanter's aura,+ says Brill. +I wonder if I'll get a cuddly one?+

[incanted]

+No idea. I don't know what I'll get either.+

[cardistry]

He giggles and hugs her. +I want a cuddly one! Cuddly ones are nice.+

[incanted]

+You're pretty cuddly already. Maybe it'd be redundant.+

[cardistry]

+You only say that 'cause you've never hugged Queenie.+

[incanted]

"What do the rest of them do?"

[cardistry]

"You've seen the Joker... Kas and Petaal have cuddly auras too, but theirs tell you how much they want you to touch them... actually, all of them can have cuddly auras. Except the demon, he doesn't have one at all yet. But Jellybean's probably my favourite," he says, beaming. "He tastes like candy."

[incanted]

"I can see why he'd be your favorite," laughs Aurora. And then she accidentally has more mental image than she wanted of Brilliance finding Jellybean to taste like candy and changes the subject. "There's a page in the Bellbook about what everyone's auras do, apparently they only figured out Shell Bell's second effect today when she was able to get a door to here because it wasn't in the book when I read through it. I wonder what I should enchant. I guess I could just work on Origin Saturn like everyone else, but it's gotten pretty huge and no one is even really trying to live in it yet."

[cardistry]

"You have your own planet," Brilliance points out. "You could enchant this one!"

[incanted]

"I guess that'd be unique, at least."

[cardistry]

"Yep," says Brilliance, beaming.

[incanted]

Snuggle.

[cardistry]

Snuggle snuggle!

+I love you.+

[incanted]

+You're cute.+ Pause. +Apparently mindreading is highly recommended - in the one direction, obviously not the other. But we haven't even known each other very long.+

[cardistry]

+...I kind of want you to read my mind about how much I love you,+ he says.

[incanted]

+I have no idea what wanting that could possibly be like.+

[cardistry]

+Well - I know how I feel about you, but I'm not sure you do. And I want you to.+ He laughs. +Maybe I should just get Sue to bounce it to you.+

[incanted]

+Sort of a trial run? Maybe. Sue's push-only, no pull, right? Or Aegis wouldn't tolerate it.+

[cardistry]

+He can push, people can push back, nobody pulls anything.+

[incanted]

+I'm up for it, then.+

[cardistry]

[Hey, Sue,] says Brilliance, [can you show my girlfriend how much I love her?]

[pythbox]

Sue links them.

[cardistry]

Brilliance hugs Aurora and sends... all of it.

He's still a little scared of her, but he knows he doesn't have to be. She gives him all kinds of nice warm snuggly feelings. He wants to cuddle her forever, or maybe fuck her, or maybe eat all her food, or maybe make all her food. But 'forever' is definitely in there any which way.

He was never supposed to need a wielder; he was made to be controllably autonomous. But feeling her there on the other end of his magic is comfortable in a way he has never been before. Maybe this is what a properly matched connection is like, or maybe it's because he was cripplingly lonely for four hundred years, or maybe not having this is why he was cripplingly lonely for four hundred years. Or maybe it's just her. All he knows is, he likes it.