"That was what I was thinking, but think about it one step further Fey, her weight would be on top of the doll, which would be transmitted back onto herself through Lily's power and then her original weight plus her transmitted weight would be pressing down on the doll, both of which would then be transmitted back onto herself doubling her weight again and so on."
"What are you suggesting?" said Lily staring at the gnome
Flora raised her hands nonchalantly. "Oh, you know, either Kayla here gets squished into a pancake, or-"
Or?
"-Or her sudden impossibly infinite weight tears a hole in the fabric of reality destroys the entire universe and kills all existence."
The girls stared at Flora. Then Kayla took an abrupt step back from her own doll.
"I don't want to kill the universe!" said Lily clearly distressed.
"F-Flora that would never happen, right? right??" said Fey.
"Hmm who knows," said the gnome with an annoyingly knowing smile.
"Flora!"
The gnome rolled her eyes. "I'm just kidding, I have no idea what would happen, but probably not that, probably."
"You make me want to not use my power anymore," muttered Lily.
"Oh don't be like that Lily. Look, you just need to carefully learn your limitations through experimentation, just like any other Class."
"Like?"
"Well, you tested fire, right? Heat goes through? and the flame?"
She hesitated, "Yes heat, I don't know if it would ignite anything on the other end though."
"Okay, and magic? Could Fey's healing go through it?"
The gnome and the otterkins turned curious eyes on the centaur who shifted on the spot nervously.
"H-hey that requires someone being injured to test, I'm not having anything to do with that!"
Flora stuck out her tongue. "Boo."
"It-it's okay," said Kayla. She held up her hand revealing a scratch. "I have a small cut you can heal."
"Really Kayla? You should have told me!"
"W-well it's only smol, and you can still heal it can't you?"
Fey hesitated then sighed. She trotted over to Lily and crouched down. Lily held out the doll and Fey touched her hands up against it. Green light and green glowing particles spilt out over the doll, and then after a moment, a flicker of green could be seen dancing about on Kayla's palm.
"N-needs rather a lot of my h-healing," muttered Fey as the amount of green light and dancing particles spilling from her hands doubled.
After about thirty seconds the cut on Kayla's palm was gone.
Flora tapped her lip with her index. "Hmm, interesting. Clearly not very efficient."
Fey massaged her sore wrists. "Terrible efficiency!"
"M-maybe it will get easier as I level?" said Lily, for some reason she was sweating, although the others had yet to notice.
"Perhaps." Flora produced a small glass vial from her shorts. "Or perhaps it just doesn't like that it's coming from another Class. Magic potions might be different."
She swooped down on the Kayla doll in Lily's hands and flicked off the cork of the vial.
"H-hey, w-wait a minute!" Said Lily as the vial began to tip, a droplet of potion about to slip over the rim.
"I said stop! I c-can't!" Lily grabbed for the vial and Flora, taken by surprise, jerked her hand. Their hands crashed together and the vial slipped from Flora's grip. It turned end over end and then the entire contents poured over the doll.
The glass clattered against the marble in the abrupt silence. They all stared at the doll. Then, slowly, they all turned to look at Kayla.
Kayla opened her mouth to speak.
"I-"
BLIP.
Kayla vanished into thin air.
"KAYLA!" shrieked Lily.
"Flora what did you doooo???"
"Huh." Said Flora. "Guess it works. "
"S-sister! Oh no! What have I done! NUUU!"
"Uhm, it's okay Lily, I'm standing right here…"
Lily looked around desperately but there was no one there.
Fey suddenly realised just what exactly had happened. She put her hands over her eyes.
"That was one of the potions you got from the potions shop, wasn't it… an invisibility potion… I should have known."
Flora looked a little guilty.
"And that's what you used to hide with when you were getting your revenge on Vivi with those purple rubber balls."
Flora looked significantly more guilty.
"Goddam Fey, who died and made you the detective."
Fey set her lips in a line and put her hands on her hips.
Lily was touching at the air in front of her, her hands pressing against something solid that couldn't be seen.
She turned on Flora. "How long does this last?"
Flora scratched her nose. "Mmm, a while? It went through your voodoo stuff so less? Maybe? I only meant to test a drip until you messed it all up."
"It's okay Lily, I feel fine, pretty much normal to be honest, just, uh, a little see-through, and hey at least we know potions work through your power now right? That's good?"
Lily opened her mouth to reply but they were suddenly interrupted.
"And done!" said Vivi aloud. She flourished a pair of ink brushes which she had somehow acquired, one brush in each paw, flipping and twirling between her paw pads, flipping them up into the air and catching them then spinning them into her artcase. She took a step back to admire her handiwork as the others moved forward.
"Uh." said Fey, her eyes widening as she took it in, "This is…"
"Vivi did you really have to draw the entire night's events step by step?"
Vivi nodded confidently. "It's the only way to express the real truth."
"There's like thirty goddam drawings here! Why is there a full on sex scene Vi! Oh my god why did you draw my face that way, I- I did not enjoy it that much! and Tami! Oh nonono, she didn't have her tongue stick out and her eyes rolled up like that! Probably, mostly, and why are there so many minotaurs and why do the minotaurs have so many swords? this one even has a sword in his mouth!"
Vivi coughed into her paw. "It's called artistic license Fey, I'm sorry if a layman doesn't get it, but trust me, it's important."
"Important for what?! Giving Tami's dad a heart attack!?"
"It's kinda hot, I'll give you that," said Flora, peering from drawing to drawing with her chin in her hand.
"Thank you."
"It's not meant to be hot!" cried Fey with her hands on her head.
A book clapped shut behind them and they turned to see Ellaria.
"I suppose it does illustrate your innocence more accurately and emphatically than just a note." She raised an eyebrow at Vivi, "this is quite a lot of drawing even for you Vivi".
"Well, I did have a little help, muttered the fox girl under her breath, her white-furred belly shifted slightly as she spoke, as though reacting, but that must have just been her hips moving. Obviously.
"In any case we have things to do today, we can't spend all morning or evening waiting for Tami's father to wake. So-"
"So?"
"So now we are going to the AG and we are going to find a job."
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