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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[cardistry]

And onward. Brilliance continues to like it. Breaks become more frequent. Those two facts are not in opposition.

[incanted]

Bella checks in on his status re: continued enchantment routinely, although increasingly briefly as the responses continue to be affirmative.

[cardistry]

He likes the checking-in. The responses continue to be affirmative, but it's nice that she wants to know that.

[incanted]

She does want to know that! She doesn't want to - well, okay, at this point given all those faces and these lovely breaks, she does kind of want to hurt Brilliance, but she doesn't want to upset him.

[cardistry]

Good! Because at this point he definitely wants her to hurt him, but he doesn't want to be upset.

[incanted]

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."

[cardistry]

"Cool," he says, hugging her. "I love you."

[incanted]

She kisses his forehead. "You're adorable."

[cardistry]

"I am, it's true," he beams.

[incanted]

"And so humble," snorts Bella, snuggling up. "Does this feel like full strength to you - like the other Bells when they're not withdrawing or flaring? Half of them wear their auras out all the time."

[cardistry]

"I dunno," he says, wrapping his arms around her and kissing her cheek. "I'm not usually seeing the other Bells from up this close."

[incanted]

"I could get up and wander off a bit," she says archly. "If that would help."

[cardistry]

"Noooo," he says, hugging her some more. "Stay. Snuggle."

[incanted]

She stays. She snuggles. "You are terribly, terribly cute."

[cardistry]

"Yep," he says. "Wanna enchant some more?"

[incanted]

"Yes." She kisses his cheek and whips up another good-sized spell and casts it.

[cardistry]

Brilliance snuggles and hums and sighs and shows her how much he loves her.

[incanted]

She peers at it when it's offered.

They might have to take another break now.

[cardistry]

They can totally take another break.

[incanted]

He's so cooperative!

They're going about this at a very leisurely pace, and Lexi checks in again before Bella is at full and stable aura strength.

[cardistry]

Brilliance snuggles Bella while she talks to her sister.

[incanted]

"Am I done yet? I think this is about the same magnitude of enchanting everyone else did before they plateaued," Bella wonders.

[cardistry]

"I think I'm not done yet," says Brilliance.

[incanted]

Bella laughs. "You particularly fond of the sensation of enchanneling and want to burn off the rest of the design I invented for leeway, or you wanna do something else?"

[cardistry]

"Good question," he says. "Let's do the rest!"