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Alice giggles over brainphone and gives her a thumbs-up.

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Bella smirks and starts trying to nap on the plane.

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It turns out that Alice has absolutely no problem keeping pace with Bella's window. He also feels absolutely no need to breathe, although he tries it once the plane levels off, just to see what happens. It feels kinda weird. No suffocation, though.

Whee!
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It's a medium-sized flight. Bella gets off at the San Francisco airport and meets the helpful grad student who's hosting her overnight. [Blue Camry,] she informs Alice, when said grad student has showed Bella to her car in the parking lot. [Parking lot A.]

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[Oh, like I know what one of those looks like,] he says, and contemplates whether he would rather have encyclopedic knowledge of cars or a Bella-compass. Definitely the second one.

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[That seems awfully narrow. Why not just a general tracking power?]

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[Okay, a person-compass,] Alice amends. [But I don't wanna always know where everyone is. That would get old fast. So a person-compass that tells me where somebody is if I ask it.]

He burns the hex, focuses on Bella, and follows his shiny new directional sense to the car in question.
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The grad student, whose name is Myra, pulls out onto the road. Bella makes small talk, about what she's studying (programming), and shows off a little in case anyone is going to ask this girl what the prospective student she hosted was like. Or in case she'll go on to be useful in her own right.

[What are you going to do overnight?] Bella asks Alice.
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[Fucked if I know,] he says serenely.

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[Okay. It isn't going to involve breaking into Myra's apartment, because that would be creepy,] Bella informs him.

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[Wait, what exactly would be creepy?]

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[Breaking into Myra's apartment invisibly and crashing there overnight where I'm going to be, would be creepy.]

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[Oh.]

Alice actually thinks it would be perfectly reasonable to sleep invisibly on the floor next to wherever Bella is sleeping, as long as Bella didn't mind. But she does, so that's out.

How about the roof? Is the roof creepy?
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[Not enough that I'd make a fuss about it.]

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[...That implies some, though,] he says. [How is the roof creepy?]

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[Well,] Bella says. [Would Myra and her roommates want you on the roof? If you did it visibly, would they tell you to come down, and call the cops if you wouldn't? You're thinking it's an apartment in an apartment building, but we don't know that; what if she has a shared house thing? If it's an apartment building it's probably against some rule but not creepy, I suppose.]

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[I don't think it's creepy. Unless somebody in that house is really attached to their roof, anyway.]

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[They could have skylights,] Bella says. [Including into bedrooms or bathrooms.]

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[Having a skylight into your bathroom is creepy,] says Alice. [Me sleeping near one isn't unless I look in it. Maybe I'll just break into a hotel, that won't creep anybody out.]

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[Most people are never on roofs to make skylights problematic,] Bella says. [Breaking into a hotel is... well, no, not creepy, but they can book those rooms at any time of night.]

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[Huh, I guess I could just get a room,] he says. It's not the first way that occurred to him, but he doesn't actually object.

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[That'd work. You do have several million dollars.]

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[Yep! I keep forgetting.]

Not in the literal sense of not being able to call the information to mind, because he has a perfect memory and also it's kind of memorable, but he never thinks of the three million dollars first when considering solutions to problems.
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[Maybe you'll get used to it.] She's half-ignoring Myra now, who is droning on about her thesis.

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[Meh.]

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