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]

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."

[incanted]

It's kind of weird selecting a type of pain rather than just a nice clean integer, but Aurora contemplates her options and goes with depressurization in a vacuum. Since she's not sure if he even needs air pressure to be comfy, this should be novel. She starts him up at one triangle. "How's that?"

[cardistry]

"Weird!" says Brilliance. "But in a good way. More?"

[incanted]

Nudge-nudge-nudge. Ten triangles. "I'm going to be very timid about moving this unless I get actual numbers," she says. "I don't want to spook you."

[cardistry]

"Timid's okay," he says, hugging her. "I like timid. Go for more?"

[incanted]

Nudge-nudge-nudge twenty.

[cardistry]

Snuggle!

"More?"

[incanted]

Bella carries on nudging up in piecemeal increments of ten when prompted and snuggling her boyfriend.

[cardistry]

Brilliance carries on requesting those piecemeal increments. For a while.

Until, eventually, he takes a mana-coloured star out of his coin sorter and starts playing with it.

"Is that how much stars are?" he muses. "It doesn't seem like a lot."

[incanted]

"Yeah, stars are everything from ten thousand to just shy of a hundred thousand," says Bella. "It doesn't seem like a lot? Wow."

[cardistry]

"It's nice," he says dreamily, putting the coin away and wrapping his arms around her again. "I like it. But it's, you know, middle of the road."

[incanted]

"It should not come as a surprise to me that Elspeth wasn't kidding when she judged the Joker Trauma Olympics, should it."

[cardistry]

"Guess not," shrugs Brilliance. "I wanna have sex like this, do you wanna have sex?"

[incanted]

"Sure."

[cardistry]

He grins and kisses her.

[incanted]

The agony beam requires no attention to maintain! How convenient.

[cardistry]

That is convenient.

They're going to be rolling in stars, aren't they.

[incanted]

Not literally, since there's that convenient coin storage feature.

[cardistry]

That is happily true. Stars are pointy. Bella probably wouldn't approve.

She'll approve of the fact that he's racking them up at a handful per second for about an hour, though. Won't she.

[incanted]

They might have to go back and make more hexes to declaw them with, but yes. Yes she will.

[cardistry]

Or, alternately -

Some time later, when they are back to cuddling, Brilliance murmurs, "Could you go up to an evil so I can declaw all these?"

[incanted]

"Right now, or you want it slower than that?"