It really didn't help that Nina had basically two kinds of magic at her disposal either. One with the runes embedded in her palms that really didn't take much out of her at all right up until she was nearly out of magic and then—
This sort of pedantic, versatile, time-consuming magic.
"I'll be good," she promised. "Like, I should be done laying the spells out by tomorrow evening, and I'll have to check the timing with Summer, see when she was thinking the actual start of the party would be, but I was thinking I'd trigger the spells around noon on Saturday so that there's time for her and Annie and Rey," she just assumed they were helping with this, "to set up??????? And while they're setting up, I'll get a good nap in, so I'll be up and able to enjoy the party!!!!!!!!!! And once the spell is triggered, it'll dissipate without extra effort from me once time's up, so………."
It'd all be fine!
Unless he hated it. Then it would not be fine. But no, no. Nina wasn't thinking about that.
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This sort of pedantic, versatile, time-consuming magic.
"I'll be good," she promised. "Like, I should be done laying the spells out by tomorrow evening, and I'll have to check the timing with Summer, see when she was thinking the actual start of the party would be, but I was thinking I'd trigger the spells around noon on Saturday so that there's time for her and Annie and Rey," she just assumed they were helping with this, "to set up??????? And while they're setting up, I'll get a good nap in, so I'll be up and able to enjoy the party!!!!!!!!!! And once the spell is triggered, it'll dissipate without extra effort from me once time's up, so………."
It'd all be fine!
Unless he hated it. Then it would not be fine. But no, no. Nina wasn't thinking about that.