so there was this deck of cards, right

[lexicality]

Jessica's house is cute. Lexi could see doing a lot of her homework here, listening to the calming chatter of gossip and getting help from Jessica on math (Bella's no help there) and helping Jessica on English. Forks isn't so bad. She doesn't mind the rain as much as Bella does.

Jessica goes to pee before they even start their assignment, after just introducing Lexi to her mom and dad as "one of Chief Swan's kids", and Lexi doesn't want to do work by herself or she wouldn't have come over in the first place. She sits on the couch and plunks her bag down and waits. There's a random deck of cards over there; she picks it up and flips through it. She's been trying to learn to bridge-shuffle.

Comments

[cardistry]

+You can talk to anybody you want, but I can hear you if you do,+ he says.

[incanted]

+Thanks for warning me about the eavesdropping. If Lexi talks to me and I don't answer her you can't hear that, right? And you can't read my mind in general?+

[cardistry]

+You can think of it like this magetalking thing is, I don't know, a phone call,+ he says, +and I'm your phone. Mind-reading doesn't come into it any which way.+

[incanted]

+If you're my phone does that mean Lexi can't talk to me, lacking a phone?+

[cardistry]

+I'm not totally sure,+ he says.

[incanted]

+Hey Lexi. See if you can talk to me like so. Mind Brilliance'll be able to hear you.+

[lexicality]

+...Hi? This is weird. Oh hey, we can cheat on tests!+

[incanted]

+We are not going to use telepathy to cheat on tests. Not because the tests matter, but because there are better things to do with our time,+ says Bella.

[cardistry]

Brilliance giggles.

[incanted]

+Does this get any more multimedia than phones do? If I want to send a picture or a wordless idea...?+

[cardistry]

+Try it,+ he suggests.

[incanted]

She shrugs and looks at Lexi and attempts to show him the scene as she sees it.

[cardistry]

+Yep!+

[incanted]

And how about her general excitement about magic, will he get that too if she wads it up in a ball and lobs it in his direction?

[cardistry]

+Oh, that's cute,+ he says, and tosses back a little ball of 'cute!'.

[incanted]

Bella laughs. +This is neat. What kind of range limitations are there?+

[cardistry]

+Probably a higher mana cost if you're trying to talk to somebody in a different dimension, but as long as I'm not in a different dimension, it shouldn't be a huge problem.+

[incanted]

+So you can hang out here and I don't have to worry about explaining to anybody why I have a deck of cards in my pocket, that's good. Not that it'd be that hard to explain, all I'd have to do would be learn a neat card trick or something, but still.+

[cardistry]

+You could learn some pretty great tricks with me,+ he giggles.

[incanted]

+You mean we could cheat and do actual magic instead of stage magic,+ Bella snorts. +Is there anything making you better than an ordinary Bicycle pack for standard card tricks?+

[cardistry]

+I look way sexier?+ he suggests. +And if you fuck up the trick I can fix it while nobody's looking?+

[incanted]

+You are pretty snazzy-looking, I'll give you that.+

[cardistry]

+I am. This form's actually based on a magician's deck I saw once. It was so hot.+

[incanted]

+I'm not actually sure how literally to take that considering that you are yourself a deck of cards,+ observes Bella.

[cardistry]

+...Somewhere between just-kidding-around and, like... I feel about looking like this in deck-of-cards form the way I'd feel about wearing really gorgeous clothes in my human-shaped form. You know?+