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

[incanted]

+...I am a healthy seventeen-year-old female, Brilliance, yes.+

[cardistry]

+And you've had more than like three days to find out what an orgasm feels like. Man, why haven't I done that yet,+ he wonders.

[incanted]

+My leading hypothesis having been demolished, I have no idea.+

[cardistry]

He cracks up.

[incanted]

+Yeah, in retrospect it was silly of me to think that, and I suppose I shouldn't be surprised you managed to stumble across a proposition if you were out wandering around, you're cute and everything.+

[cardistry]

+I am really cute!+ he agrees. +If I saw me walking around, I'd hit on me too!+

[incanted]

Bella giggles into the magephone.

[cardistry]

+Now I wish there were two of me so I could fuck myself,+ he says wistfully.

[incanted]

+You'd be the expert on whether that's something you could accomplish by magic or not,+ Bella says wryly.

[cardistry]

+Nah, I don't think I can pull it off.+ He laughs. +Too bad.+

[incanted]

+Alas. So if you're not non-sexual, what are you? I assume you're familiar with the fact that there's kinds.+

[cardistry]

+I don't think I have a kind,+ he says. +What's the sex equivalent of the way I feel about food? I'm that. Except I've had more food than sex. Which is definitely something I hope to change. Hey, wanna have sex with me?+

[incanted]

+Uh. I'll have to - think about that,+ says Bella.

(She enjoys a brief and vivid mental image of being enjoyed the way he enjoys ice cream.)

+Just - that, or is there context here?+

[cardistry]

+...Context like what?+

[incanted]

+Like, I'm not sure of actual percentages, but often people who have sex are also dating or something?+

[cardistry]

+...Yeah, and? What are you asking, here? I wanna have sex with you because I wanna have sex and I know you and I like you and you're nice.+

[incanted]

+There are ways to like people, though. I'm trying to figure out which one you mean.+

[cardistry]

+I like one person,+ he points out. +It's not like there's anything to compare the way I like you against.+

[incanted]

+...That's fair.+

And sweet.

+Okay, so that I can think about this question without extraneous fluff in the way - can devices get people pregnant or transmit bio-person diseases?+

[cardistry]

+Nope! I'm not even as good a disease vector as your average deck of cards, 'cause I shed all that stuff every time I change form.+

[incanted]

+Okay then. I will - think about it.+

[cardistry]

+Okay,+ he says brightly. +Think I've got time to go try out my body some before you have to go to school?+

[incanted]

+We'll be going any minute, I've been dithering staring at this hair elastic trying to figure out how to get the glass droplet onto it, I probably don't even have time left for an actual breakfast and will just grab cold poptarts on the way out.+

[cardistry]

He laughs. +Lemme at the hair elastic.+

[incanted]

Bella trots downstairs, puts the hair elastic on the kitchen table, checks the time, and puts her poptarts in the toaster.