Bella draws up some more Planet Rainbowsand Place For Underspecified Purposes enchantment guidelines, and when she has about enough for two auras' worth and then some, she tells Brilliance, +If you want to invite the demon and the dragon over for enchanting at some point there is now stuff to do.+
The spell also shows her what channeling aftereffects look like in his nervous system. They have a pretty distinctive pattern. He's not experiencing very much of them; there are enough Jokers to go around that no one channel is carrying much of the weight.
She laughs, and does a different thing to each of his limbs. One arm gone completely painless, one with enchanneling pain slid up to double this modest intensity, and each leg subject to different odds-and-ends on top of the painkilling residue in the mid-pentagon range - one constricted, one lacerated.
Bella obeys, snuggling back. She still operates his nerves like he's a piano, but she's a fast learner and has gone beyond gentle flailing. It amuses her to concentrate on some place, drifting between flavors, and then startle him with an intense, pinprick-small touch in an unrelated location.
"Thoughtful of you," says Cam. "I'm thinking they'll be conspicuous around the Seedling office and I have no idea what Renée will think of them in her yard - besides, the tree that's already there is a jerk - so it's probably about time I made my own space palace." He pauses. "I wonder if seeds made outside of Syntropy by non-Syntropy magic will grow up to be clever, in Syntropy. I guess I'll find out."
Light collects on his skin and hair and clothes, glinting off him in a million colours. He glows and sparkles and shines in shifting, radiant patterns. When he spins around, the glow leaves behind fading trails in the air; when he hugs Aurora, it envelops her too.
He puts her Barrier Jacket on her, and his aura springs back into place, dancing over her clothes and hair and skin just as eagerly as it does over his.
For the hell of it, he shifts to staff form and flies into her hand.
They look glorious together.