incanted | universal star visitor brilliant start!

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

+Ooh, what's a sweet potato? I wanna eat one.+

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incanted

"We don't have any around right now. There are thousands of things to eat, I'm not going to just run to the store and grab you examples of every single one."

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cardistry

+That's okay, I've got lots of free time while you sleep.+

Om nom nom he forgets what he's eating right now but it is delicious.

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incanted

"Where are you going to get sweet potatoes while I sleep?"

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cardistry

+No idea! I'll think of something.+

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incanted

"You're not going to just teleport places and steal them, are you?"

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cardistry

+...Would... that be bad?+

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incanted

"Yeah? They don't belong to you."

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cardistry

+So?+

Nom nomty nom.

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incanted

"So that's what belonging means, is that you can't take it, it's not yours, it's somebody else's and if you take it they will have grounds to be upset and that would be mean of you. If you find food growing wild you can have that - but you'd have to be able to tell the difference between wild and cultivated."

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cardistry

+...Okay, but how else am I gonna eat all the food there is to eat?+

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incanted

"You're gonna spread this project out over a long enough time that I can acquire it for you at a reasonable rate. Or acquire money so you can buy the food, I guess, you could get a job."

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cardistry

+Get a job how? Don't you need to have, like - human stuff, for those?+

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incanted

"It'd help to have documentation, but you could teleport to other countries where they're less strict about it," shrugs Bella. "Or find somebody who'll pay you under the table around here if you don't want to deal with currency exchange. I don't think it especially matters if the job's legal as long as it's not unethical."

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cardistry

+...And how do I tell if it's unethical or not?+

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incanted

"Uh, you could ask me, if you don't know," she suggests. "Picking fruit, fine, busing tables, fine, selling pot to elementary schoolers, not fine, assassinating people, not fine."

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cardistry

+I could've figured out the assassination one by myself,+ he volunteers.

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incanted

"Okay, well, there, that's a start," says Bella.

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cardistry

+Still not sure why I should care. I mean, about the rest.+

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incanted

"Uh... okay, can you take my word for it about dealing pot to kindergarteners or do we need to actually talk philosophy right now in order to preclude this outcome?"

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cardistry

"I don't really want to deal pot to kindergarteners, what I want to do is taste new things," he says, gazing sadly down at his empty plate.

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incanted

Bella tosses him a banana. "Well, look, I can buy you a reasonable number of new things to eat per week - can you even get poisoned, you could probably eat random wild plants, if you don't have to breathe you could go swimming in the ocean and catch all kinds of sea creatures to devour, that sort of thing."

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cardistry

Banana! He even knows to peel it first!

He has a little trouble with the mechanics of the peeling.

"I bet I can't get poisoned," he says. "Poison is biological."

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incanted

"Just - here." She takes his banana before he squishes it all over everything, peels it for him, and returns the denuded fruit. "So yeah, we can map out some places where the stuff that's around isn't going to belong to anybody and you can eat anything you find that looks tasty there."