devoted enchantment conduit, smile!

[incanted]

Aurora goes home before Brilliance does. She wants an aura; she's admired all the others enough to feel out of place by not having one. (Even Sarion does now.)

She asks Jane to let her know when Brilliance comes home to Rainbow.

And when she gets this notification, she says, +Hey Brilliance.+

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[incanted]

"Yeah." She swallows. She runs her fingers through his hair. "...I'm not clear on how this maps onto triangles. I think I'll start really small and we'll see what kinds of coins you can make off of it? Okay? ...And, uh, I don't think it comes in plain, any flavor requests?"

[cardistry]

He shrugs. "Okay, that sounds good."

[incanted]

"No requests, huh. Uuuum." She decides on what she most commonly does when she feels like making a little coin on the spot. Biting. She doesn't know if that makes any sense applied to a non-location, but she's going to try it again, very, very gently, over in the nonlocations.

[cardistry]

"That's not even a triangle," Brilliance reports.

[incanted]

Okay, a little less gently?

[cardistry]

A triangle is not far off. When he gets one, he shows it to her and then tucks it away.

[incanted]

Bella kisses his forehead. "Okay, so that's one. How far up d'you want to go?"

[cardistry]

"Star-ish is a good ceiling for now," he says. "Lots of room to get it wrong and still be okay."

[incanted]

"Okay."

She drags her will across his "nerves" like a child with an unfamiliar piano, holding herself down to the mid-pentagon range to start, and she keeps an eye on his face.

[cardistry]

He wriggles and shivers and smiles.

"I like the way you do it," he says. "It's... sweet. You're sweet."

He kisses her.

[incanted]

Kisses. "How's it sweet?" she asks. "Sheer benign ineptitude?"

[cardistry]

Brilliance laughs. "I don't know, maybe. Get better at it and we'll see."

[incanted]

She starts moving around in idle, drifty patterns, as though trailing her fingers through a pool of water to watch the ripples. She cycles through flavors as they occur to her. A dozen kinds of sharp.

[cardistry]

The transition from flavour to flavour is smoother, with this spell; unless she deliberately makes it as sudden as possible, it takes about a second to shift from one to the next. And the flavours themselves require more input from her; she has to imagine them, not just name them.

Brilliance seems to like the moving-around. He grins and wriggles and hugs her.

[incanted]

"This takes way more concentration than the agony beam," murmurs Bella, hugging back.

[cardistry]

"I'll bet," he laughs. "Mmmm."

[incanted]

"I have to actually have some idea what I'm doing. I have zero personal experience with most of the flavors on the agony beam." She settles on a single flavor (papercuts, writ large) and goes up and down his spine and then into the disembodied section again.

[cardistry]

Papercuts up and down his spine produce quite the face.

[incanted]

Nnf. She will try that again.

[cardistry]

This time he also makes noises.

"That's nice," he says. "That is really fucking nice."

[incanted]

"What about it in particular," she murmurs, not quite forming the sentence into a question. She draws her fingers through his hair again.

[cardistry]

"Mmm... I dunno, it's - not exactly better, but it's sexier when it's on my body," he says. "And I like the way you move it, almost like you're using your hands, you know? It fels, I dunno, intimate." He smiles.

[incanted]

So not the flavor, not the particular location. "I think that was the general idea, was that it'd be intimate," she murmurs, smiling, and she slides from papercuts to burns, because she's bumped into hot stoves before, and she fingerpaints imaginary burning all over everywhere.

[cardistry]

Location is definitely a factor. He likes some places better than others, or at least differently, and down his spine/over his back is one of the ones guaranteed to make him pleasantly squirmy.

There are more. Bella can probably figure some of them out all by herself.

[incanted]

Well, she could guess, but it's more fun to experiment. She does have so many places to reach out and touch.