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"Well, alright," you say. "If the two of us work together, we might be able to get this right."

You go to the rice and trace an Alchemy circle over it.

"Wow, that's a pretty complex one," Raven says. "Is that... ten rings?"

"This is why food Alchemy is complicated," you say. "All the elements and traits that go into a food item pile up. Here's a quick trick to make it easier to read."

You put a miniature seal on each finger of your right hand, and then grab the rice's seal. You pull up and the circles become a cylinder of ten layers.

"We need to find the layers describing the rice's length and it's stickiness," you say. "Mochi is made from 'mochigome,' a short-grain glutinous rice."

"Right, okay," Raven says.

You and Raven look up and down the cylinder, and you even rotate a few layers.

"Oh, here," Raven says. "Layer four, 'length'."

She rotates that around and points out the section.

"Good eye," you say. "Hmm... Then this should be its value. Obviously, go smaller."

"By how much?" Raven asks. "I can't tell if that's a percentage or a unit symbol."

"Well, I don't think that number is 100," you say, "so don't go with a percentage. Though, I will say mochigome tend to be about three-fourths the size of a normal grain."

"So that'd be 75 percent," Raven says. "What's 75 percent of not even a centimeter?"

"Well, one centimeter is 10 millimeters," you say. "75 percent of that is seven-and-a-half. Let's try that."

"Okay," Raven says.

She takes care of changing the value in that line, and you move on looking for the 'glutinous' element and things like that.

"Oh, there it is," you say. "Hiding on the backside of layer six."

"Obviously just making a number bigger isn't the way, right?" Raven says. "That'd be far too easy."

"Right," you say. "This is going to be more like a puzzle, putting things in a certain order to realign the rice's consistency."

You grab at this line and bring it out to get a better look.

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"Oh..." you both say.

"So..." Raven says. "Is this about rearranging things?"

"It could be about rearranging, removing or even repeating," you say. "And we only get one chance."

"Oh..."

A) Rearrange
B) Remove
C) Repeat