That's better. Hey, if she's going to play tour guide, she'd rather not have him turning his nose up at the sights. And Mary's her friend.
As for his ideas about transmuting... where to begin? Sunshine plunks herself down on a rock and pulls a cookie out of her bag, sparing a sorry look for the cinnamon bun he's ignoring. "It's complicated," she informs him. "First off, you're not really supposed to change things and then leave them changed - you switch them back unless you have a really compelling reason not to." The only object she changed and didn't change back was her grandmother's ring. She knows why she never fixed it: she was ashamed of how it ad turned out, and worried she'd make an even more hideous botch of it. She doesn't know why her grandmother kept the monstrosity, though.
"Secondly, some objects shift more easily than others, and worked metal is low on that list. Changing a 1978 penny into a 1987 penny is hard, let alone changing it into a quarter." Regardless of the year. And okay, maybe she can transmute worked metals with more ease than one might expect, but let's not forget the whole fraudulent aspect of that particular idea. Or the fact that quarters aren't worth enough to make full-time coin transmutation a worthwhile venture, even if she never got caught.
"And thirdly, I've never changed anything large enough to not fit inside my hands." She demonstrates by cupping her Killer Zebra between her palms for a moment, though she's not about to go changing that into anything else. This is just a size demonstration, don't get excited. "Which limits things a bit."
Opening her hands, she takes a bite of the cookie and shrugs. Could she transmute something bigger? Maybe, if it was a nice, sunny day and she had a very compelling reason to try. Frankly, she'd much rather be baking.
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As for his ideas about transmuting... where to begin? Sunshine plunks herself down on a rock and pulls a cookie out of her bag, sparing a sorry look for the cinnamon bun he's ignoring. "It's complicated," she informs him. "First off, you're not really supposed to change things and then leave them changed - you switch them back unless you have a really compelling reason not to." The only object she changed and didn't change back was her grandmother's ring. She knows why she never fixed it: she was ashamed of how it ad turned out, and worried she'd make an even more hideous botch of it. She doesn't know why her grandmother kept the monstrosity, though.
"Secondly, some objects shift more easily than others, and worked metal is low on that list. Changing a 1978 penny into a 1987 penny is hard, let alone changing it into a quarter." Regardless of the year. And okay, maybe she can transmute worked metals with more ease than one might expect, but let's not forget the whole fraudulent aspect of that particular idea. Or the fact that quarters aren't worth enough to make full-time coin transmutation a worthwhile venture, even if she never got caught.
"And thirdly, I've never changed anything large enough to not fit inside my hands." She demonstrates by cupping her Killer Zebra between her palms for a moment, though she's not about to go changing that into anything else. This is just a size demonstration, don't get excited. "Which limits things a bit."
Opening her hands, she takes a bite of the cookie and shrugs. Could she transmute something bigger? Maybe, if it was a nice, sunny day and she had a very compelling reason to try. Frankly, she'd much rather be baking.