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"Invisible necklace sounds good to me. Would want it insubstantial too. Or, I dunno, Brilliance, would another amoeba-device be a good coin handling plan?"

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"Hmmmm," says Brilliance. "You could put 'em in a barrier, I guess. But no way I'm making you a device smart enough to get 'em out again on command." He glances at the Joker. "Gimme some coins? I wanna try something."

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He can have a square, a pentagon, and a hex, all in the Joker's colour-glinting glass.

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Brilliance tries his something. Square won't do it, pentagon won't do it, but hex will.

"Cool," he says. The other two coins vanish. "Thanks."
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"Gave myself a coin-sorting function," he says. "Our magic couldn't make one that worked the way I wanted, but turns out theirs can. Dunno what to do about you, 'cause you're not a device, but maybe coin magic doesn't care."

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"Hmm. I'll have to think about how I want one of those to work." Bella reaches into her backpack and produces a notebook.

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"Mine just lets me put coins into it and take them out again by size," says Brilliance. "And I can feel how many of what kind is in there, kind of the same way I feel how much mana I've got. Ooh, you should make it so you can feel how much mana you've got."

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"That's a good idea. When I have a place to put a batch of coins beyond these three triangles I'll see about collecting some to spend on things like that."

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"I've got a bunch," says the Joker. "And I can always make more."

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"That's very kind of you." Bella is scribbling away on the subject of coin sorting.

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"Not like there's nothing in it for me," he laughs.

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Bella makes a bit of a sporfling noise.

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"Okay, like, is there any reason for me to be in this conversation or can you just catch me up later, Bella?"

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"I'll catch you up. I'll take notes so I don't forget anything," Bella says. "You go ahead and do whatever."

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"Okay, bye, you're welcome for the magic guy." Lexi heads for the stairs.

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"Thank you!" Bella calls after her.

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The Joker giggles.

"You can give yourself a perfect memory if you want. Takes a hex." He pretends to pull one from Brilliance's hair by sleight of hand, then tumbles it idly over his fingers. "Wonder if you can copy the Bell standard from here."
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"There's a Bell standard? Well, of course there is," snorts Bella, holding out her hand.

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He drops the hexagonal glass coin into her hand.

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Bella tries a wish for "Bell standard" perfect memory.

"...Oh, kickass, I want to hug all of me," she says when the coin goes. She closes her notebook and stuffs it back into her backpack.
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"Fun, huh?"

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"Hell yes." Bella closes her eyes and hums to herself, thinking.

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The Joker continues snuggling Brilliance.

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Brilliance continues eating jelly beans.

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