"Okay! So, let's start."

"… I still have no idea how the actual non-card magic stuff works," he says.

"Well, what have you tried?"

"Not much, really."

She raises a very unimpressed eyebrow.

Theo shrugs.

"My first contact with magic was lame shapeshifting which didn't look like sorcery or anything like that at all, and then Kero was completely unhelpful, and then we were running around chasing cards! It was going to happen eventually!"

"Uh huh."

"I bet Tyler would have suggested it eventually, anyway."

"It doesn't really matter, though," says Jess, "because now it's been suggested and so you guys can get to work on trying things."

"Yup, and we'll do all the magic!"

"I wonder if there's a way to transfer magic to someone. I mean, the system's versatile enough to have manufactured the cards and Kero..."

Jess shrugs.

Maya says, "Hopefully it won't actually matter that much, since if we need something magicked we can hopefully just decide on it beforehand and get it done? But yeah, it'd be nice if they could be magic too."

Juniper eyes her twin...

...who seems to be doing great! "Yep! Worst-case I'll mooch off my new relative," she says, nudging Juniper.

Jess smiles at them both.

Theo seems to have nothing to input on this!

"Okay, well, we tried Latin today and it didn't really work out, so it's not super obvious like that."

"What sorts of phrases did you try?"

"Not a lot," she admits. "We just tried words and stuff that sounded magical enough."

He nods. "Phrases and things might work, like, stereotypical magic rituals that are like 'wind, do my bidding and whatever' or… whatever?"

"Yeah, something like that."

"Well, Theo's phrase to release the staff is in English? And last time Kero said it didn't even need to be the whole sentence?"

Theo shrugs. "Yeah, I dunno."