miracle crystal dancing jewel, spin!

[incanted]

Bella goes to bed, happily exhausted. She can make stuff! Not a lot of stuff, not yet, but still. She will be able to solve Brilliance's food problem and if she can figure out how to scale up she will be able to solve the world's food problem.

The next day is, alas, also a school day. She bids Brilliance good morning while she brushes out her hair. +Hey you.+

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[incanted]

+Okay then. Do amoebalike devices get names?+

[cardistry]

+If you desperately wanna give it one, I guess, but I'd feel weird.+

[incanted]

+I don't have to, I just have no idea what the standard here is.+

[lexicality]

Lexi yawns her way down the stairs and looks critically at the cereal box and cracks an egg into a frying pan instead.

[cardistry]

Brilliance shrugs. +Does the standard matter? I don't know it either, I just know I'd feel weird naming a sweet potato.+

[incanted]

+I'd feel weird naming a sweet potato I was going to eat. If I were going to keep one on the kitchen counter because it was an interesting shape, or something, I might name it.+

[lexicality]

"Good morning, Bella," says Lexi pointedly.

[incanted]

"Oh. Morning. Sorry, distracted," apologizes Bella. "You sleep okay?"

[lexicality]

"I slept fine," says Lexi, more content.

[cardistry]

Om nom nomty nom.

Cereal all done! He smiles contentedly.

[incanted]

Bella's done with hers too. +How would you feel about making Lexi little-devices to maintain some spells on her too? Like, not today, after she's loosened up some.+

[cardistry]

+...I dunno,+ he says. +Ask me again after she's loosened up some.+

[incanted]

+'Kay.+

"You driving today or shall I?" Bella asks her sister while Lexi plops her egg onto a slice of bread and bites into it.

[lexicality]

"I'll do it. You never did copy down my math," says Lexi. "You can do it in the car."

[incanted]

"Ooh, good point, thanks," says Bella.

[lexicality]

"Youuuu're welcome," trills Lexi. She licks a bit of runny yolk off her finger. "Let's get outta here."

[incanted]

+Deck of cards?+ Bella cues Brilliance on the twins' way out.

[cardistry]

He shifts and floats into her hand.

[incanted]

She pockets him and grabs her bag and hops into the passenger seat. She copies Lexi's math (judiciously introducing three mistakes and correcting two over the course of the translation) on the way to school.

School ensues.

[cardistry]

Brilliance comfortably occupies Bella's pocket.

[incanted]

School ends.

+I can't keep copying Lexi's homework indefinitely or I'll start making a fool of myself in classes, I should do, like, an hours' worth sometime this afternoon and if I put it off I'm just going to get distracted by magic,+ Bella tells Brilliance as she gets in the driver's seat with Lexi in the passenger on the way home.

[cardistry]

+Sure,+ he says agreeably.

[incanted]

Bella and her sister do homework at the kitchen table, chatting companionably in half-sentences interpretable only to each other. Eventually Bella does what she deems to be enough, and she puts her schoolbooks back in her bag. "I think I'm gonna go," she tells Lexi.

[lexicality]

"Gonna go do magic, learn to save the world?" asks Lexi wryly.

[incanted]

"Gonna go do magic, learn to conjure potatoes," amends Bella. "Saving the world might be trickier. But yeah, something like that. I'll see you later."