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Isabella Mariel Swan ∀ "Glass" ([personal profile] thaumobabble) wrote2013-05-14 06:50 pm

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Jane alerts everyone to the existence of a new Bell, the nature of her wives and children, and the presence of her mother-in-law.

She stands ready to move in anyone who wishes to attend this new party.

Glass stands ready to receive them.
pleasantsurprise: (bait)

[personal profile] pleasantsurprise 2013-05-15 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm starting to follow this general undercurrent of 'wait, there is a queen and it is not Glass?' I'm detecting from my eavesdropping."
nonbird: (9. that's how it is)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"The fact that there is a queen who is not Glass is mildly unusual," says Lazarus. "But I'm not sure why it deserves all this attention. Stella didn't overthrow the President."
pleasantsurprise: (locational effect magic)

[personal profile] pleasantsurprise 2013-05-15 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean, Glass certainly never objected to the fact that her wives don't care for politics and that left her as default actually-doing-things queen when Marianne passed on - but that didn't stop her from spending most of her spare time on trying to figure out immortality."
nonbird: (8. nor little nor a bird)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Marianne is probably not going to pass on," Lazarus observes. "I wonder if she'll retire?"
pleasantsurprise: (curse myself)

[personal profile] pleasantsurprise 2013-05-15 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"No idea. I hope Glass doesn't wind up fighting with her about it. Glass is my best friend and Marianne frightens me sometimes and the twins and the wee ones love them both and I don't think it could possibly end well."
nonbird: (c. excusez-moi?)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Doesn't sound like it," says Lazarus. "But maybe they won't. Bells do seem to get along with reasonable political leaders."
pleasantsurprise: (both magicians)

[personal profile] pleasantsurprise 2013-05-15 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Glass likes Marianne, they get along really well."
nonbird: (2. a baker's dozen)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then they probably aren't going to fight."
nonbird: (5. better make it good)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes!" says Lazarus. "That is me. I am that."
pleasantsurprise: (both magicians)

[personal profile] pleasantsurprise 2013-05-15 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"He sees magic, and apparently has better modulation than your specs," Kanim says. "Seeing as he's not clutching his face and yelping."
nonbird: (b. contemplative gaze)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"...May I see those?" he asks, blinking in fascination at the specs.
nonbird: (c. excusez-moi?)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Goodness," says Lazarus. "That's a lot of magic."
nonbird: (a. well hmm)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wonder if I could design you a lens that does something similar to my power," he says. "I'm not sure how useful it would be. My power is very me-ish."
nonbird: (6. proving more intricate)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do you want a my-power-ish lens, for all the good it may or may not do you?"
nonbird: (7. I've got a theory)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Lazarus thinks carefully, and then makes a wish. Glass's specs acquire a new set of lenses.
nonbird: (b. contemplative gaze)

[personal profile] nonbird 2013-05-15 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Her visual world is now very different.

There's a kind of background fog, very greenish, with spots of flame dotted along the ground. Objects and people only exist insofar as they are magical; Liselen is a silvery-blue glow in the shape of a unicorn, Lazarus himself is layered with complex patterns. Mints show up in their coin colour, as though they are enormous self-minted coins. Enchanters' auras surround them with symbolic representations of their specialties, some very abstract, some perfectly mundane - Jellybean has a corona of candy.

It's all very orderly. Ingot powers appear in this way, the enchanting ability like so, auras like that, witchcraft in yet another. Magic created by wishcoins has a very different aspect from magic created by enchanting, although the details of what exactly each bit of magic does are not always clear.

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