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]

"Ooh, burgers," he says. "Sure!"

[incanted]

Bella ensures that they are both decent, warns Lexi that they're incoming, and teleports them.

There are burgers to be had.

[cardistry]

Brilliance has a burger. Delightedly.

[incanted]

After dinner Bella wishes to take Brilliance on a tour of her village-garden-thing.

"How are your aftereffects going?" she asks him as she leads him up a spiral staircase that goes around a tree.

[cardistry]

"They are awesome," he beams.

[incanted]

"And, I take it, still present," she laughs softly.

[cardistry]

"Mmyep. Hey, I wonder if my repair function would get rid of them," he says idly.

[incanted]

"Do you want to try it?"

[cardistry]

"Sure!"

[incanted]

They're already holding hands. "Restore," incants Bella.

[cardistry]

The spell informs her that he is mostly undamaged, except for some lingering effects in a complex subsystem, which it repairs.

"Cool," says Brilliance, and laughs. "Of course, now I don't hurt anymore," he half-complains.

[incanted]

"Is that unwelcome?"

[cardistry]

"Mmmmaybe."

[incanted]

"I can think of at least three ways to fix it. Two of 'em involve me."

[cardistry]

"Go on."

[incanted]

Bella laughs. "You want a list? I bet you can think of them all yourself."

[cardistry]

"I want your list," says Brilliance.

[incanted]

"Miscellaneous self-injury. Standard issue agony beam. A certain incantation that isn't 'pants', if you're there now."

[cardistry]

He grins.

"We could try agony beam," he says. "Do you wanna?"

[incanted]

"I could be persuaded." This section of her village is stylized rope bridges between treehouses and towers. She comes to a stop inside one of the treehouses.

[cardistry]

Does the treehouse have comfy places to sit and/or snuggle?

[incanted]

It does! Enormous beanbaglike poufs. Bella flops into one and holds out her arms invitingly.

[cardistry]

Brilliance hugflops onto her.

[incanted]

Snuggly hugflops. "Comes in about a thousand flavors because it was designed for some folks rather attached to their variety," she says. "Got a preference?"

[cardistry]

"Surprise me."