universal star visitor brilliant start!

[incanted]

Eventually Bella and Lexi go to bed - they have to coordinate this; Bella's a reasonably sound sleeper but Lexi's not, so if Bella goes to sleep first Lexi won't be able to drop off with all the random nouns and if Bella goes to sleep second Lexi will wake up when she's trying to sneak around. They get up, and they get ready for school.

+Morning, Brilliance,+ says Bella while she's brushing her teeth.

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[cardistry]

"Try it and see!"

[incanted]

Bella commands a sugar crystal to exist just like she did the sand.

[cardistry]

This one is a somewhat harder to envision all at once. But the conjuration is successful.

[incanted]

"How're we on mana?" Pause. "Can we just make me able to directly sense that or do I have to pester you every time I want to know?"

[cardistry]

"You have to pester me," he says apologetically. "You might get a sense for it yourself someday, or you might not, I'm not really sure. Anyway, we're still above half, but we're getting there."

[incanted]

"Maybe better to save the kernel of corn for another time, then?"

[cardistry]

"Yeah, maybe."

[incanted]

"Mkay." Bella kicks off the ground again. "God I love flying."

[cardistry]

Brilliance laughs.

[incanted]

Zoom! Zoooooooom! Zoom.

[cardistry]

"Wheeeeeee!"

[incanted]

"How much fun can it be when you're a staff?" asks Bella, doing a barrel roll. "Like, I'm mostly getting - wind and vestibular stuff - do you get that?"

[cardistry]

"I get - different stuff," he says.

[incanted]

"Indescribable device stuff?"

[cardistry]

"I guess," he snorts.

[incanted]

"Oh well." Zoom!

[cardistry]

Whee.

[incanted]

Eventually Bella yawns. "I have no idea what time it is on the west coast of North America, but it's probably about time I went home to bed, I'm probably keeping Lexi up," she sighs, coming in for a landing on the mixed-up sand; they've flown well past her sorted rainbow and her disks and her sandcastle.

[cardistry]

"Okay," he says agreeably. "Where do you wanna transfer back to?"

[incanted]

"...Hmm, I wonder if I can magephone Lexi from this distance, warn her, she'd be startled if we appeared right where she was. Am I risking a mana catastrophe if I try?"

[cardistry]

"Yeah, if you wanna do that I'd transfer to - damn, you can't really transfer to an asteroid," he sighs. "But somewhere in the same dimension, first. Then warn her and teleport in."

[incanted]

"How about that random forest we fought in?" suggests Bella after a moment. "Probably not being observed. ...This planet is not in my native dimension, huh?"

[cardistry]

"Nope!" says Brilliance. "Okay, random forest it is."

The spell diagram appears, brightens, flares. They are in Random Forest.

[incanted]

+Hey Lexi!+

[lexicality]

+Hey, what's up, it's late,+ replies Lexi.