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Mali supposed that line about brain and brawn was meant to be a compliment, but the implication was that the impression she gave off was that of a dumb brute. Well you can't change people's perception of body type, and the archetype of the dumb muscle has been a staple of fiction stretching back probably since the beginning of human history. Yet life wasn't an RPG where you could either put your stats into Strength or Intelligence. And even when she thought about it like that, the implication hurt a bit. It was something she'd run into now and again, but it was one of those consequences of bulking up that she had yet to get over.

While Zoie was off getting the picture from wherever it was, Mali stood idly for a bit before thumbing through the pages of the Romance novel. Not because she was particularly excited to read that one, but it was a lot easier to handle a small paperback book. She'd managed to skim through a couple of pages before Zoie had come back. The writing wasn't good from an objective standpoint, which was to be expected, but even worse was that what little she'd read had been dull. Maybe that passage wasn't representative of the whole thing, but her willingness to read more was rather low.

The first thing Mali thought of when she saw the image was the necklace Relic had acquired. It wasn't quite the same, but the similarities were undeniable. Chances were that he hadn't told Zoie about it, and given that Mali was already withholding information from his sister, she wasn't about to let a fact like that slip nonchalantly. At least not without consulting him first.

[color=D5FF00]"It reminds me of a buckyball with the way those sphere things are attached. But I'm pretty sure Juno isn't interested in organic macromolecules. I'm pretty sure JD Mason and her teacher had uncovered an artifact kinda like this back in Greece shortly before their deaths. If I recall correctly it was an icosahedron instead of a dodecahedron. If I had a picture I'd show you, but think they're related?"[/color] A wild thought crossed her mind about how it could be a container or focal point for the various stones of the same nature as the necklace, but that was pure speculation at best, fantastical magic nonsense at worst. Mali might be more open to ideas of ancient conspiracy cults and far out ideas like that, but literal magic was out of the question.