self-devising bejeweled minds!

[incanted]

Bella stays with Brilliance as long as he needs. She has one or two conversations with politicians by brainphone at the same time, but she doesn't leave till he tells her he'd like to be alone, and then she goes. (She tells Lexi that she may have sourced her a Device.)

Comments

[withmypowers]

"Will do."

[incanted]

"What's the structure of the TSAB like? How big is it?"

[withmypowers]

"...Which you're asking because...?"

[incanted]

"Curiosity. If you don't wanna tell me you don't have to."

[withmypowers]

"I have a lot of discretion but not quite that much."

[incanted]

Bella laughs. "Can you tell me what your co-workers have been told about me?"

[withmypowers]

"Well, I took responsibility for the fact that your partner is an immensely powerful weapon. No one was really that interested in you."

[incanted]

"Took responsibility for the fact that he's a powerful weapon meaning?"

[withmypowers]

"Meaning, the higher-ups wanted to know if he was likely to destroy any planets, and I said no. So if it turns out you want to play Death Star after all, I'm on the hook for it."

[incanted]

"Me and Brilliance are agreed on no planet-destroying, so you're safe."

[withmypowers]

"Good to know."

[incanted]

"Left to his own devices he would probably mostly eat ludicrous amounts of pie. I'm more the do-gooder type."

[withmypowers]

Matilda giggles. "He eats pie?"

[incanted]

"He eats everything, he is very into gustatory experience, one time I walked into the kitchen," she waves a hand kitchenward, "and he just had this stack of pie plates, he's bottomless, he just turns food into mana."

[withmypowers]

"That is precious."

[incanted]

"I know, right?"

[withmypowers]

She nods firmly.

[incanted]

"When I met him he had never tried any kind of food, I gave him some random leftovers and a banana and he was over the moon about it."

[withmypowers]

"Awwwwww."

[incanted]

"He's very cute."

[withmypowers]

"I can tell!"

[incanted]

"Anyway, I assume you are very busy, I don't want to tie you up talking about how cute it is that my boyfriend eats a lot of pie if you have other things going on and only meant to drop by for ten minutes to see if Lexi and Persica got along."

[withmypowers]

Matilda laughs.

"All right. I'll get back to you about the perfect recall thing," she promises, and Adularia shimmers, and they teleport away.

[incanted]

Bella goes back to her articles on Eastern Europe.

When she is between articles some fifteen minutes later, she decides to try for a Libby again, by brainphone this time. [Testing -]

[prima_sequentem]

[Excuse me?]