Author: incanted | There are now one dozen Bells.
They and most of their friends are all here on Planet Rainbowsand II, to celebrate the addition of Sarion, the elf one, and Aurora, the one with a sister. |
Author: incanted | +Hey Brilliance, you interruptable?+ |
Author: cardistry | +Pretty much,+ he says in a contented snuggly sort of tone. +What's up?+ |
Author: incanted | +I have now talked to every Bell except the single one and the broken one about how Bells do poly and it didn't help much.+ |
Author: cardistry | +Oh,+ says Brilliance. +...I thought we had that covered, did we not have that covered?+ |
Author: incanted | +Enough to be getting on with. Not perfectly, so I wanted some help, but there's none to be had, everybody has circumstances that don't apply to anyone else working for them.+ |
Author: cardistry | +Technically,+ says Brilliance, +so do you.+ |
Author: incanted | +Yes. So I get to be unhelpful to the next Bell who wants tips, joy and rapture? Anyway. You having fun?+ |
Author: cardistry | +Lots! I'm snuggling Queenie,+ he says. +Everyone should snuggle Queenie.+ |
Author: incanted | +Is this a feature of Queenie individually or is she just relevant right at this moment?+ |
Author: cardistry | +Her enchantress's aura does... it's hard to describe, but when she cuddles you, she is like the essence of cuddle.+ |
Author: incanted | +Interesting.+ |
Author: cardistry | +So I am feeling very cuddled right now and it's awesome and if you're interested you should try it!+ |
Author: incanted | +I think I'm going to pass for the time being, but I'm sure there will be plenty of chances later.+ Aegis wanders by to remind her to design a Janegem; she puts another charm on her hair elastic and Aegis ansibles it for her and wanders off. +I have a Janegem now.+ |
Author: cardistry | +Okay,+ he says agreeably. |
Author: incanted | +You pretty thoroughly glommed on to Queenie, now, or...?+ |
Author: cardistry | +Did you want me to snuggle you instead? That could happen,+ he says cheerfully. |
Author: incanted | +I would like that.+ |
Author: cardistry | Suddenly cuddles! |
Author: incanted | Eeee, cuddles! Aurora needed cuddles. She melts right into cuddles. |
Author: cardistry | Mmmm snuggly cuddles.
+I want an enchanter's aura,+ says Brill. +I wonder if I'll get a cuddly one?+ |
Author: incanted | +No idea. I don't know what I'll get either.+ |
Author: cardistry | He giggles and hugs her. +I want a cuddly one! Cuddly ones are nice.+ |
Author: incanted | +You're pretty cuddly already. Maybe it'd be redundant.+ |
Author: cardistry | +You only say that 'cause you've never hugged Queenie.+ |
Author: incanted | "What do the rest of them do?" |
Author: cardistry | "You've seen the Joker... Kas and Petaal have cuddly auras too, but theirs tell you how much they want you to touch them... actually, all of them can have cuddly auras. Except the demon, he doesn't have one at all yet. But Jellybean's probably my favourite," he says, beaming. "He tastes like candy." |
Author: incanted | "I can see why he'd be your favorite," laughs Aurora. And then she accidentally has more mental image than she wanted of Brilliance finding Jellybean to taste like candy and changes the subject. "There's a page in the Bellbook about what everyone's auras do, apparently they only figured out Shell Bell's second effect today when she was able to get a door to here because it wasn't in the book when I read through it. I wonder what I should enchant. I guess I could just work on Origin Saturn like everyone else, but it's gotten pretty huge and no one is even really trying to live in it yet." |
Author: cardistry | "You have your own planet," Brilliance points out. "You could enchant this one!" |
Author: incanted | "I guess that'd be unique, at least." |
Author: cardistry | "Yep," says Brilliance, beaming. |
Author: incanted | Snuggle. |
Author: cardistry | Snuggle snuggle!
+I love you.+ |
Author: incanted | +You're cute.+ Pause. +Apparently mindreading is highly recommended - in the one direction, obviously not the other. But we haven't even known each other very long.+ |
Author: cardistry | +...I kind of want you to read my mind about how much I love you,+ he says. |
Author: incanted | +I have no idea what wanting that could possibly be like.+ |
Author: cardistry | +Well - I know how I feel about you, but I'm not sure you do. And I want you to.+ He laughs. +Maybe I should just get Sue to bounce it to you.+ |
Author: incanted | +Sort of a trial run? Maybe. Sue's push-only, no pull, right? Or Aegis wouldn't tolerate it.+ |
Author: cardistry | +He can push, people can push back, nobody pulls anything.+ |
Author: incanted | +I'm up for it, then.+ |
Author: cardistry | [Hey, Sue,] says Brilliance, [can you show my girlfriend how much I love her?] |
Author: pythbox | Sue links them. |
Author: cardistry | Brilliance hugs Aurora and sends... all of it.
He's still a little scared of her, but he knows he doesn't have to be. She gives him all kinds of nice warm snuggly feelings. He wants to cuddle her forever, or maybe fuck her, or maybe eat all her food, or maybe make all her food. But 'forever' is definitely in there any which way.
He was never supposed to need a wielder; he was made to be controllably autonomous. But feeling her there on the other end of his magic is comfortable in a way he has never been before. Maybe this is what a properly matched connection is like, or maybe it's because he was cripplingly lonely for four hundred years, or maybe not having this is why he was cripplingly lonely for four hundred years. Or maybe it's just her. All he knows is, he likes it. |
Author: incanted | Aurora melts into him with a warm sigh.
+Oh.+ |
Author: cardistry | Thanks, he says to Sue, and cuddles Aurora some more. |
Author: incanted | +Oh oh oh I can see why this was recommended.+ |
Author: cardistry | +...Do you wanna go hang out on this planet's original for a bit?+ he inquires. |
Author: incanted | +Yeah that would be good yes please.+ |
Author: cardistry | He casts a dimensional transfer to bring them to the first Planet Rainbowsand, and when they get there, he conjures them a big tent made of translucent white fabric and floored with a thick comfortable blanket. |
Author: incanted | This is a very good place for them to be right now. So good. |
Author: cardistry | They should also be out of clothes! Out of clothes is a good place to be.
Brilliance decides that he prefers to get there the fun way. |
Author: incanted | Aurora's mind is not even on the array of clothes-getting-out-of-options. It is on that lovely lovely memory. +I feel half like I'm dreaming.+ |
Author: cardistry | +Do you want Sue to just keep sending that at you while we...? Because I bet he would,+ says Brilliance, wriggling out of his shirt and pouncing for kisses. |
Author: incanted | +I do not think I want Sue involved. I could just hex up the standard if you wouldn't mind though. Or pentagon it for a test run.+ Kisses! |
Author: cardistry | +Standard on your end but more like pushing to Sue on mine?+ he suggests. |
Author: incanted | +Standard interface push-based transfer protocol, or something else?+ |
Author: cardistry | +Yeah, that.+ |
Author: incanted | Simple enough. She pulls a hex out of her "coinpurse", spends it, kisses him again. +There.+ |
Author: cardistry | Brilliance pushes love some more. |
Author: incanted | Aurora picks the packet of affection open when it hits her interface and melts all over again. +It's like I'm on really fucking good drugs or something, god...+ |
Author: cardistry | +Awesome,+ he says cheerfully, and keeps it up while he continues scattering clothes all over the floor of the tent. |
Author: incanted | Aurora is enthusiastically helpful with this project! |
Author: cardistry | Just for fun, he also pushes physical sensation.
The physical senses of his human body aren't anything particularly special, but the amount of attention he pays to them is something else entirely. |
Author: incanted | Aurora opens that up too. Curiously.
+Fuck, I have to boost processing if we're going to do this like so, I didn't even do that yet,+ she says dizzily, running a fingertip along the length of his arm with her eyes heavy-lidded. She swallows and pulls her hand back and closes the sending - and spends her hex - and then opens it again and pounces. |
Author: cardistry | Ooh, pouncing. Brilliance feels very delightedly pounced. And what the hell, he pushes that too, it's a nice fizzy giggly feeling and deserves to be shared. |
Author: incanted | Aurora giggles with contagious amusement and sets about inducing interesting sensations for her to borrow along with her cocktail of emotional drugs. |
Author: cardistry | That is awesome and she is awesome and he loves her so much. |