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[gloriousdawn]

It's an ordinary afternoon in the Koskin household. Solvei is nestled amid the remains of a demolished blanket fort; her sisters are a few feet away on the other side of a ruined pillow-wall, sharing a book.

"Hey," she says suddenly. "Let's be magical girls."

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[gloriousdawn]

Their transformations complete, the sisters look at each other. Then, simultaneously, they burst out laughing and dive into a group hug that carries them back onto the pillow-ruin in a giggling heap.

[nothing_noble]

"How come you guys get the cool oaths and I'm the goddamn Lorax?" complains Eithrun between giggles.

[gloriousdawn]

"Don't knock the Lorax. The Lorax knows what's up," laughs Solvei.

[thisbrokenworld]

"And hey, magic," Ravni observes. "Light of True Seeing."

She begins to glow faintly white.

[gloriousdawn]

"...magic!" agrees Solvei. "What's mine—? Light of the Blazing Dawn."

A strong golden glow surrounds her, radiating a message not unlike the dawn's rays in their vision. It advertises a personal commitment to helping, to improving, to supporting people in achieving or surpassing their goals; it advertises her nature as the sort of person who will go over, under, around, or through any obstacle in her path; and it invites the viewer to partake of her messianic radiance and become just a little bit better at whatever skills and faculties they value. Faster, stronger, smarter, more creative—anything and everything.

[nothing_noble]

"Nice," says Eithrun. "Okay, my turn - Light of the Gentle Moon?"

Her silver glow is stronger than Ravni's but subtler than Solvei's. And—

"Holy shit you guys I got a healing aura," she crows.

[gloriousdawn]

"We're the best," says Solvei.

[thisbrokenworld]

"We're pretty great," Ravni agrees. "So, do we tell our parents, or...?"

[gloriousdawn]

"Of course we tell our parents," says Solvei. "No power on Earth could stop me from bragging about this grand success."

[nothing_noble]

"Concur," says Eithrun.

[thisbrokenworld]

Ravni laughs.

They tell their parents. Their parents are proud and amused in equal measure, along with a dash of worry and a pinch of what-will-our-little-disasters-think-up-next. Papa gently requests that the girls let him know before they attempt to go adventuring; the girls graciously assent.

Solvei and Eithrun's aura spells are so pleasant and useful that they both take to just staying transformed all the time, and Ravni follows suit even though her spell's applications are much less universal. The Light of True Seeing detects lies and pierces illusions, but Ravni was already pretty good at that sort of thing. Still, she doesn't mind being last place in spell usefulness. They'll get more in time, she's sure.