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Edie has mixed feelings about the roses.
On the one hand, magic exists.
On the other hand, ow.
On the first hand, perfect healing.
On the second hand, ow.
On the first hand, flight.
On the second hand, holy fucking ow that one's definitely the worst, yep, ow ow ow.
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iamnotpolaris
Dammit. Okay, fill it up to three-quarters, fill it the rest of the way with conjured water, mix it up and see what happens.
A three-quarters-full glass is what happens, when enough time has elapsed.
iamnotpolaris
Okay this is enough frustration for the moment.
She pulls out her phone and e-mails Cass a summary of her impromptu experiments and a request for advice on permanency.
She pulls out her phone and e-mails Cass a summary of her impromptu experiments and a request for advice on permanency.
the-greatest-show
Permanency is a total bitch!
I'm not totally sure what the deal is with the temporary stuff sometimes not disappearing, but you know how you wind stuff up to make it last longer? To make it permanent you have to kind of... turn it inside out. I've told Anna how and she still can't do it yet, it's really tough.
iamnotpolaris
Tough like hard to figure out or tough like hard to keep a hold of?
iamnotpolaris
Ugh. Oh well. On the plus side, food being a temporary thing that sticks around if you eat it is really, really convenient. Same with ink, in a way, I'll never need to buy a pen again.
iamnotpolaris
I don't think I ever told you why I don't mind this as much. You know runner's high?
iamnotpolaris
It's that thing where when you've been exercising a lot your body gets flooded with endorphins. I get that for most kinds of pain, for some reason.
iamnotpolaris
Yeah, it's pretty great.
And then she pockets her phone and gets to her next class and writes with a pen that she barely resists the temptation to be as ornate as she can manage on short notice, because if she writes with a different fancy pen every class this is going to get noticed and people will ask questions.
She makes it emit sparkly pink ink, though, because her lecture notes are her own business and she can read it just fine.
And then she pockets her phone and gets to her next class and writes with a pen that she barely resists the temptation to be as ornate as she can manage on short notice, because if she writes with a different fancy pen every class this is going to get noticed and people will ask questions.
She makes it emit sparkly pink ink, though, because her lecture notes are her own business and she can read it just fine.
The sparkliness of the sparkly pink ink fades somewhat after the relevant pen vanishes, but the ink itself is still legible.
iamnotpolaris
Huh. Good enough.
When she gets a good moment (this teacher just lectures out of the book and it will be easier and faster to just read the chapter later than pay attention) she sees if she can make heads or tails of permanency. With a marble, first, because she doesn't want difficulty of creating the item itself to confuse the issue.
When she gets a good moment (this teacher just lectures out of the book and it will be easier and faster to just read the chapter later than pay attention) she sees if she can make heads or tails of permanency. With a marble, first, because she doesn't want difficulty of creating the item itself to confuse the issue.
It is not at all intuitively obvious how turning a marble inside-out is supposed to work.
No.
iamnotpolaris
Bah. Well, when she inevitably fails to permanentify an item, does it come out the way she tried to make it only temporary, or does it fail in some more annoying way?
As long as she doesn't lose her grip on it while she's trying to make it permanent, the rest of the conjuration process still works fine.
iamnotpolaris
Well, she'll pretty much poke at it at least a little whenever she tries to conjure something, then. Meanwhile she can go on forcing her other factors more capacious. She can't do much on the volume or mass fronts in class, but her bag can contain longer-lasting more complex things. Have a fabric dust jacket with an absurdly high thread count, random textbook.
All this practice works nicely for its intended purpose. Her textbooks shall have the fanciest of dust jackets.
iamnotpolaris
And when she gets back to her room that afternoon, how much time will it take to generate the sweater from her Perfect Concealing Outfit?