Expectations Exceeded

Purple energy enveloped the box, and Clarisse watched as it diminished in size. It got smaller, and smaller, and smal--

 

"H-hey, that's enough!"
 
She slapped the wand as if it was misbehaving out of its own volition. While that shouldn't have been possible, the wand did stop after the smack as if on command. What used to be a waist-high box was now roughly the size of an apple.
 
"Whoops! I guess I overshot it a little. But it works!"
 
Clarisse picked it up for inspection. She turned it around in her hand, trying to notice anything that was "off" but failing to find anything of note, at least visually. The feel was harder figure out through her gloves, but minute details like that had always been beyond Clarisse. Feeling it around in her hand made her convinced that everything was as it should be, and if her intuition was telling her that then it must have been true.
 
"And this way I can bring it with me, so it all works out!"
 
Clarisse pocketed the box in her pouch before depositing her wand there as well. It was time to go visit Cagliostro.
 
The walk within the airship wasn't long. Cagliostro's quarters/workshop wasn't long ways away from hers, because "someone has to be there to fix what you inevitably blow up", as she put it. It was just her way of being thoughtful. Clarisse skipped along the whole way over, paying little to no attention to who she passsed by in the hallways.
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September 10, 2023
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