Long blurry hours of enchanting and break-taking recede into the past.

Bella steadily acquires aura.

She's in more of a position to tell what it does than Brilliance is, because both of its special features report to her. "Ooh," she says. "I get an aura-based mana regulator. And it's - I'm not sure what this does in general, but it's telling me some stuff about you, that you don't have any powers I'm not at least loosely apprised of and that you don't want to hurt me. Threat gauge power, maybe."