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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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"And to think you've only tried one flavor of the stuff."
Hugs hugs hugs. Even hugs are pleasanter with all this detailed obedient feedback from all her parts.
Hugs hugs hugs. Even hugs are pleasanter with all this detailed obedient feedback from all her parts.
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"I should try more flavours," he says, snuggling her some more. "I want to try everything."
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"Well, I'm also a lot more used to food and hugs than you are, maybe the novelty will wear off in seventeen years."
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Hug-snuggle.
"You're my favourite person," he sighs. "Not that that's a high bar to clear."
"You're my favourite person," he sighs. "Not that that's a high bar to clear."
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"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."
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"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.
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"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."
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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.
+Morning, Brilliance,+ she says the next morning.
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+Hi!+ he says ebulliently. +Last night I got to taste somebody's dick! I think I have a new favourite taste.+