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]

She enjoys the loves and continues to slide down the positive integers.

[cardistry]

"It's weird," Brilliance murmurs. "The agony beam, I mean. It's not really that much like Pants."

[incanted]

"It's not? Could just be a flavor thing."

[cardistry]

"Maybe," he says. "Give me, like, half a star of some totally unrelated flavour?"

[incanted]

Bella contemplates her options, goes with heat (variety: radiant, as though baking) and hits him as requested.

[cardistry]

"Nice," he breathes. "Ooh, I like that one. What's it like changing between flavours?"

[incanted]

"A little change or a big change?"

[cardistry]

"Little one, first?"

[incanted]

Baking becomes boiling.

[cardistry]

He wriggles and grins.

"Okay, what about a bigger change?"

[incanted]

Boiling becomes sharpness (subvariety: that generated by e.g. a whip).

[cardistry]

Brilliance squiiiiiiiiiirms.

"Yeah, that is not like pants at all," he says. "That's like - well, it's like it was designed by somebody who doesn't like pain."

[incanted]

Aurora giggles. "Stella made up version one, I think there've been some additions since but yeah. It's all based on, like, actual possible injuries, why does that make it obvious it's designed by someone who doesn't like pain?"

[cardistry]

"It's - it's abstracted," he says. "Like you're relying on the magic to cover the details and it's not doing that great a job."

[incanted]

"I guess that makes sense."

[cardistry]

"I wonder if you even can use pants," he muses. "It's a little more - hands-on. The way some spells are, you know?"

[incanted]

"...Some of 'em are involved, yeah. I have no idea. Are we just calling it 'pants' now?"

[cardistry]

"It's a cute name for it," he says. "It's funny. I like it."

[incanted]

"Okay then," chuckles Bella. "Well - I don't know how much my own lack of masochism would interfere with its use."

[cardistry]

"You know what," he says, "let me down off this one and try it."

[incanted]

Bella tapers him down from where he's at. "Um, am I at much risk of accidentally overdoing it given that I don't know what I'm doing pantswise?"

[cardistry]

"I don't know what the interface looks like exactly from that side, but it didn't seem like it took that long to figure it out," he says. "If I yell, stop?"

[incanted]

"Okay."

She finds a comfy snuggling position, propped up a little on part of the enchanted pouf-beanbag so she can watch his face in addition to listening for yelling.

"Say when."

[cardistry]

"When," he murmurs, smiling at her.

[incanted]

Bella swallows nervously.

But she musters up a token amount of wanting and she whispers:

"Devotion."