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.)

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[prima_sequentem]

[Tell me more about your plans for world conquest, then. That's always fun.]

[incanted]

[How much of the curing-diseases-unendangering-pandas-vanishing-landmines activity have you seen in the news? I wanna know where to start.]

[prima_sequentem]

[Assume I know nothing. It's not true, but it'll make your explanation more complete.]

[incanted]

[Okay, well, I'm not going public yet but that doesn't mean I'm being discreet. I went through some lists of diseases and rendered them nonexistent. I'm currently debating what kind of consolation present to send to doctors whose jobs have been rendered irrelevant; for obvious reasons just conjuring piles of money for each one would be problematic, and they can't just all retrain as nutritionists or something. There are a lot more salmon in the Pacific Ocean now; I'm reading up to avoid damaging the ecosystems I'm trying to patch for other species, except on my mom's birthday I unendangered pandas. They might still be technically threatened, but there are a lot more of them now. There are no more lurking landmines in Southeast Asia. And I have presented myself to all uncontested world leaders, been shot at a few times, and ultimately convinced them all that shooting at me wouldn't get anywhere and they should talk to me instead; we're in periodic meetings about how to present me and my open-ended offer to the world, and so far as I know, it hasn't leaked, although I will not be stunned if six of your friends have been eavesdropping and told you something.]

[prima_sequentem]

[Did you not think of looking for me before inducing world leaders' bodyguards to shoot at you?]

[incanted]

[I did not. I told you, everyone else found applicable Libbies organically. Golden's one is her mother-in-law. Juliet's succeeded her at a mystical destiny thing and Juliet went to warn her without finding out who she was until she brought her to Milliways and Stella ran into them and was like "aww you found a tiny Libby". Now that I have discovered that it is sometimes necessary to look for Libbies I'll tell the others as soon as I can and I'm sure we'll all run sweeps for known templates.]

[prima_sequentem]

[Well. If I was going to work for you, the first thing I'd do would be to find you some qualified diplomats.]

[incanted]

[Yes. Please. Qualified diplomats would be awesome. I am not even the most diplomatic of Bells and even he is not all that diplomatic.]

[prima_sequentem]

[I'm getting that sense. Well, we'll see. I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you're not in such dire straits that you can't wait until tomorrow to benefit from my expertise.]

[incanted]

[Yeah, nothing dire. It's not like getting shot at is a problem except insofar as it's a sign that something has already gone wrong. And for the record I didn't just unexpectedly teleport into anybody's office. Although I almost did that with you, which I gather would've been almost a worse idea. The ones who shot at me were like "yeah, visit at such and such a time" and when I showed up there was an ambush waiting. Very unfriendly.]

[prima_sequentem]

[Yes. Suddenly teleporting into my presence when I don't know who you are is not a friendly gesture. I'm glad you didn't do that.]

[incanted]

[Yeah, I guess you were in the bathroom or something, it's good that Shell Bell came up with that patch for the power before anyone had an embarrassing incident.]

[prima_sequentem]

[There was a time when you-plural were in the habit of teleporting to people without first making sure they weren't 'in the bathroom or something'?]

[incanted]

[It never actually happened like that. Stella designed the original power, and she was almost invariably teleporting to places where if there was anybody there she'd talked to them first. The kind of magic in question isn't very good at plain information - it can give different results contingent on facts but it's not so great at just having us know stuff unless we pick out a sensory modality and everything, and it didn't occur to her to have her superpower just stop working sometimes. Shell Bell figured the bathroom thing wasn't a problem because it doesn't land us near enough people we're looking for to land us in a small room. Then she had a close call with a Tony she was looking for who later informed her that he had a very large bathroom, she fixed it, by the time I met the peal it had been patched for a while.]

[prima_sequentem]

[That's lucky.]

[incanted]

[Yep.]

[prima_sequentem]

[For future reference, please don't teleport to me without explicitly warning me first.]

[incanted]

[Yeah, sure, my sister's easily startled that way too.]

[prima_sequentem]

[incanted]

[And I mentioned the brainphone does busy messages, if you ever want me to bounce off for some reason you can put one up.]

[prima_sequentem]

[Noted.]

[incanted]

[Anything else you want to know now instead of later?]

[prima_sequentem]

[I don't think so. I'll talk to you again when I am less busy.]

[incanted]

[Okay, later.]