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.+

Comments

[cardistry]

"I definitely am," he giggles. Hug hug hug. "I don't understand how anybody else isn't."

[incanted]

"Got other things on our minds," Bella shrugs.

[cardistry]

"Yeah," he laughs, "how."

[incanted]

"Well, I'm also a lot more used to food and hugs than you are, maybe the novelty will wear off in seventeen years."

[cardistry]

"Mmm, I think that'd be kinda sad," he says.

[incanted]

"A little, I guess."

[cardistry]

Hug-snuggle.

"You're my favourite person," he sighs. "Not that that's a high bar to clear."

[incanted]

...Aw.

Squeeze.

[cardistry]

Happy snuggly hug!

[incanted]

"I'm glad I found you. I'm sorry I'm your favorite person - I mean, not directly, but sorry that you've known such a bad quality of person, pretty much all I've done for you is be not-horrible."

[cardistry]

"I like you," he says. "You're nice. Maybe you call it not-horrible, but I call it nice."

[incanted]

"Well, I try to be nice, but everything you've seen me do is either minimum standard of not-horribleness stuff, or selfishly motivated," she points out.

[cardistry]

"So? What I'm saying is," he lets go of her so he can gesture emphatically, "your minimum standards are high compared to what I'm used to. And you're sorry about that, and that's sweet. And I'm just gonna keep appreciating it the way I appreciate hugs and ice cream - it's something nice that I'm not used to yet."

[incanted]

"Awww."

Bella maybe blushes a little.

[cardistry]

He grins at her. "Aww, you're cute."

[incanted]

"Pff." Bella's no longer being hugged; she twirls gratuitously.

[cardistry]

Brilliance laughs.

[incanted]

Eventually Bella wearies of dancing and she settles in to work on food. Soliciting information about their mana supply every time, she conjures a heap of sugar grains - it is indeed not much harder than making just one - and then a kernel of corn, and then a tomato, both of which Brilliance is invited to eat. After she's managed all of these feats they head home for the day, and she bids him goodnight and goes to bed.

+Morning, Brilliance,+ she says the next morning.

[cardistry]

+Hi!+ he says ebulliently. +Last night I got to taste somebody's dick! I think I have a new favourite taste.+

[incanted]

+...+

[cardistry]

+It was so much fuuuun,+ he says.

[incanted]

+Oooomigod.+

[cardistry]

+...What?+

[incanted]

+You know that's a sex thing, right, it's not like it's a food? How long did you say you'd been on Earth, a hundred years?+

[cardistry]

+I know what sex is,+ he laughs. +So? I liked it, the guy liked it, everybody wins! Mmmmmm.+