Morty knows he shouldn't be screwing around with multidimensional shit. It's dangerous, it's impractical, it's blah blah blah. But it's a potential key to unlimited energy, how does nobody see that? He's built a dimensional siphon (it kind of looks like a cardboard box with a funnel and a TI-84 taped to it, but it damn well works), keyed in the dimensional coordinates to a random plane, and by God he's going to use it.
He flips the switch and waits for the energy bar to fill up.
It does! It fills up very rapidly. Then it explodes, along with the box. There's rather more smoke than there should be, and once the smoke clears someone is standing there.
"Oh dear," Morty says faintly.
"Okay, it makes perfect sense if she expects me to use the leeway productively, because if she keeps giving me leeway I will obviously do that."
"Yeah. If you had super unexpected trouble with econ or something, it'd be good to leave you the option of just getting red and blue down so you don't rip your hair out, but Circe gets a handle on people quick."
"My confusion is resolved." Bella writes down the experiment with the teleportation. "I believe I shall have a look at the sparks variant until I drop below, oh, six by wrist-thingy, and then see how fast I recover." She turns to the sparks variant.
For this version there's also an included gesture and incantation, including instructions for how to modify the spell not to need them. The modified version looks absolutely hellish.
But she is new at this - and also, gesturing and incanting is undeniably more wizardy.
She takes her time, lovingly sculpting her wad of magic, and then gestures and incants.
"Aww. Yeah, the movement's the hardest part of that one. And you've gotta make sure the visibility on the sphere itself doesn't pop back while you're not looking."
"Hmmm, okay..." Bella re-reads the bit about the movement widget, and then does it again, double-checking the adjustment for sphere visibility immediately before her cast.
Also, her widget is telling her that she's at 5.93.
"Okay, that's my threshold dipped below, I'll have to fix it tomorrow," sighs Bella. "It's very tempting to keep poking it until I figure out what's wrong with my sparkler. Oh well. I will read things and meditate."
"It's hard to keep it all in line until you get used to it. It's impressive that you're getting it this quickly, really. I mean, this is your first day doing actual magic."
"I can't get all that excited about magic, because I grew up with it? But it is so cool."
"I mean, Alli doesn't seem to get what the difference between this and our sixteenth birthday is, and I can't very well explain it yet because today all I can do is make insubstantial Christmas ornaments that disappear if I stop paying attention to them. But it took sixteen years to get my gemini stuff. In sixteen more years I will be so much better at this."
"Oh, totally. Choice between magic and my powers... I actually don't know in my case. But choice between magic and your powers, definitely magic. Your powers are cool, but magic."
"...I mean, I am not yet sure how efficiently I will be able to use magic to save one and a half million people, especially given the annoying thing about magic abhorring gifts, so I'm not sure it's that clear cut, but being able to do that even with flickering was kind of a fluke, so perhaps."
"No need to apologize. But I am not one and a half million people worth of excited yet. If Circe can teach me to cure malaria I will get that excited very fucking fast."
"Yeah. I mean, you can heal malaria, but I can't imagine that's what you're talking about."
"You- could. But that's the kind of thing that fucks up food chains, and also it'd be really big to the point it wouldn't be feasible for you to actually do for a long time, and... I don't know that your world has ley lines, but in our world extinctions are bad for ley lines. Like, if you intentionally drive a species extinct then you're asking for forest blights and colony collapse and tornadoes and shit. The passenger pigeon extinction literally caused plagues of locusts in the Middle East. Please don't do that."
"I think people have looked into mosquitoes in particular and declared them okay to extinguish. There are lots of kinds and only some of them bite humans and I don't think anything feeds exclusively on them. But I will consult a minimum of one real ecologist who knows mosquitoes and check on the ley lines thing before attempting to drive malaria's carriers extinct. Or I'll just aim straight at the malaria protozoan itself, though for some reason I'm guessing that's harder than the bugs."
"Yep. There are diseases we've killed, though, we can send you home with some of the means for that. Like, we killed ebola. Only after it had mutated and turned airborne and wiped out a portion of the Northeast, but we can totally kill ebola for you."
"...Without, say, first turning it airborne and wiping out some Northeast? I'm all for killing ebola without doing that."