"I'm really tasty, apparently," says Brilliance.

"It sounds like it. I hope she's okay after sleeping it off for a bit," says Leekath.

"Yeah, me too. I wouldn't know what to do if she wasn't."

"I don't think you can have hurt her. The question is if she's going to be awake and focusable after a little while of napping."

"It still wouldn't be great for her if she wasn't, though, right? And I wouldn't know what to do about it."

"She'd miss some classes, I guess, it wouldn't be a huge diaster..."

He shrugs. "I guess I just - wouldn't like it if I wanted to do something nice and it turned out bad or inconvenient. But we'll see."

"Yeah," agrees Leekath.

"Hear anything interesting since I asked last?"

"It tells me when you gain or lose mana and it was telling me about the flying thing you did so you didn't fall over and your healing incantation."

"I don't actually know if I would've fallen over, but I didn't feel like risking it."

Leekath nods.

The cafeteria continues to have ice cream.

Brilliance continues to consume it, gradually but steadily. Because it is delicious.

Kaylo is back for his next meal a few angles subsequently. He spots Brilliance and sits with him. "Hey. I see you got rid of Leekath eventually."

"She spent a while reading me my own specs first, though," he says. "Accurately. Down to the shape of a form I've never displayed in this world."

"Divinatory wizardry exists," says Kaylo, and he takes a bite of a sandwich.

"And you, what, think she was scamming me with it? Why?"

"Because she wants people to believe her, I guess? I'm not a psychologist."

"Okay, how does divinatory wizardry work, then? What would she have been able to find out, what wouldn't she?"

"It depends on the spells she uses," shrugs Kaylo.

"And? Aren't you the one who was all excited about what things your magic could tell about my magic? If some girl's got a spell that'll let her walk around telling me every time my mana goes up or down and what I'm using it for and all about the parameters of cosmetic alterations to my forms and step by step how to get into an obscure maintenance mode I didn't know I had and use it to wipe out control codes I didn't know I had either, don't you wanna know what spell it was so you can cast it yourself?"

"...This thing included stuff you didn't know you had? With verifiable results?"