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[calescent]

Kiri's up early the next morning, restless with various low-level simmering concerns, and wanders out of her room.

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[pyrophyte]

"Statue-ing," giggles Ekador.

[salt_of_the]

"Well, once I'm gone they're sure not gonna do anything else. I guess while I'm here I could make them move around. We could make a giant bluestones board and I could move the stone pieces and you could turn some trees into wood pieces and it would be only useful when we were both here, does that sound like enough of a pointless display to suit the occasion? Oh and speaking of occasions are we gonna do the magic handholding thing?"

[calendarofcrime]

"An excellent question," says Sarelle.

[salt_of_the]

"Because we are all here, now, and I've never tried it."

[calescent]

"I'd like to, and I think the choreography works if I stand between you and Loel, since order doesn't matter. But there have been some misgivings." Kiri gestures in the direction of the misgivings.

[pyrophyte]

Ekador sighs. "Yes. Although I suppose, given that we have the opportunity, and you've said we will have to do it eventually regardless..."

[calescent]

"Well, with that level of enthusiasm I can't believe you're not bouncing in your chair waiting for Loel to get back. It's pleasant, I swear."

[salt_of_the]

"Grandpa said so," agrees Patience.

[pyrophyte]

"I believe you that it is pleasant. The question is not whether it is pleasant. The question is whether I want to do it."

[salt_of_the]

"Well, what are the reservations, then?"

[pyrophyte]

He shakes his head.

"General qualms?"

[salt_of_the]

Patience shrugs. "I wanna try it. I don't know what it's like and I want to."

[pyrophyte]

"And I am wary for no specific identifiable reason."

[salt_of_the]

"I mean, I guess you're allowed," says Patience, shrugging again.

[liakoura]

And here is a bin of blessings, and its bearers.

[free_flowing]

Yep!

"Hi, everybody!" says Loel, cheerfully. With Aleko's help, he carries the bin to a sufficiently sturdy table not currently occupied by any other things, and sets it down there.

[salt_of_the]

"Loel, how do you feel about magic handholding?"

[free_flowing]

"I feel just fine about magic handholding!"

[calescent]

"The idea has been proposed as an event for today's agenda and Ekador's got vague misgivings," explains Kiri.

[free_flowing]

"Mm," says Loel, nodding understanding. "Well, no rush, right?" He gestures to the bin of blessings, by way of suggesting an alternate pastime.

[calescent]

"Right." Kiri peers into the bin. "Well, there's five 'suits' like cards, but then there's the extraordinaries, and the numbers aren't right, so we might or might not be able to adapt any given card game successfully depending on how much that matters."

[free_flowing]

"Nothing stopping us from making a new one," says Loel. "And anyways, the blessings don't come in numbers, that seems kind of important. We could give them numbers, but it might be more natural to do something else."

[calescent]

Kiri tilts her head. "Some of the blessings are more - physical, about physical circumstances - than the others, but it's not quite even between everything - grace and beauty, strength, nothing for sweela, swiftness and travel plus you could argue for flexibility, health and fertility plus more you could argue. So that doesn't match up neatly. Maybe some kind of collecting game like Daisypicking would work; it doesn't matter that four is larger than two, for that, so it wouldn't matter that grace isn't 'larger' than wealth or whatever."

[free_flowing]

"Yeah," he agrees. "That'd work. Or, I don't know, something about matching - it sure seems like there's not enough of every blessing in the bin to really get off the ground with something where you need to have a specific blessing, but maybe we can figure something out. Like, mmm... if somebody puts down flexibility, the next person has to come up with a different coru blessing and so on until there's a row of all eight, but if someone doesn't have one that's not already there they take the unfinished row and start over, and whoever has the least coins at the end wins? Where the end is when we run out of coins, I guess. And we can just not use the extraordinaries, or say they're wildcards and they count for what the person putting them down says they are."

—Then he starts giggling. Anyone sitting close enough to read his mind may observe that he just realized that the nature of blessing coins might potentially complicate any attempt to deal them out at random.

[calescent]

Kiri laughs too. "We might be able to divide them randomly if we did it by pouring them into bowls instead of picking them up by hand, we can try it anyway."