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"The basic appliances run on magic," Bella says. "The lighting, food replicators, and plumbing will all carry on behaving completely independent of any electrical work. However, if people want to have printers or white noise machines or electric razors on Mars, someone is going to have to install electricity. I am not going to do everything for my Martians, just ensure that it's basically livable even if they opt to be lazy. So yes. I think electrical engineers could be useful. I have a tower on Mars that I could claim to live in, but I also have the moon palace, this room, and both of my parents' houses to claim to live in, plus I don't actually need to sleep anymore, so I'm not sure if I can be said to live there. Bridget has decided to move there, though. I plan to make it possible to drive there, so people can bring their stuff, but I should warn you that I might have to move the border if the government complains, so it might go from being as easy as driving to the highway to being as easy as getting to Tokyo or Moscow."

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"Then I think I might like to move to Mars when I am an electrical engineer, if at that time it is possible to get there without leaving the continent first."

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"So not soon? Okay. Well, you're allowed to jump the queue when the time comes," Bella says. "Any other questions?"

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"Does this mean you will not be attending Stanford anymore?"

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"Yeah," Bella says. "There is no obvious point to continuing. I'll go formally drop out later today."

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"Good luck with your empressing!" she says. "I will miss you!"

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"I am going to have the internet there," Bella says. "We can write. Also, I am telepathic; want to be added to my telepathy network? We call it a 'brainphone'."

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"How are you going to get the internet on Mars? What is brainphoning like?"

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"By magic. And it's like talking, only without talking. Or there's a text channel."

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"Then yes, I would like to be on the brainphone network, please."

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[Hi,] says Bella.

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[Oh!] says Janine. [That is interesting.]

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[Isn't it? It comes in handy. Alice is also on here, and some people you don't know. If you don't want to take calls you can block them and put up a message for anyone who tries.]

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[Well, that is convenient. Thank you!]

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[You're welcome! I'm going to go drop out now. I've been rudely skipping classes without notice while I designed me a Mars.]

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Janine giggles.

[I think I would like to see Mars some weekend or other,] she says.
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[I will inform you when it's driveable. Maybe we'll have tour buses set up.]

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[A tour bus to Mars,] Janine muses. [My life just got really weird.]

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[Everyone's did,] laughs Bella, and she opens the window and flies out of it.

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Janine blinks after her for a moment, and then goes back to studying.

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Bella drops out of college. Also, she decides to put a sign in front of one of the Mars robots. They wouldn't have been affected by the terraforming unless they were underwater - and she didn't make the oceans very big, so off the top of her head she doubts they are. Checking... yep, she can plant a sign in front of Spirit and it'll still work. The sign reads:

"Hello, NASA! I have terraformed Mars. I will start taking applications for immigration soon and will update this message when I have an office for that. It is OK with me if you leave your robots here. Sincerely, the Empress of the Stars"

Bella then teleports to her dad's. He is not home; she calls him. This is probably important enough to interrupt him during work.

"Dad?" she says.

"Bells? What is it?"

"I'm likely to appear in the news soon. Don't be alarmed. I can tell you all about it now, if you want."

There is a long pause. "Magic stuff?" Charlie asks mistrustfully.

"Yes. Biiiig magic stuff."

"You're safe?"

"Quite," says Bella, smiling to herself.

"I think I'll let the news tell me."

"Okay, Dad. Love you."

"Love you, Bells."

Bella hangs up and takes a moment to design a minimally intrusive anti-reporter ward. Charlie is simply going to look like a shy Kolya to anyone liable to pester him or report on him to the media, although he can suppress it implicitly if he tries to get someone's attention.

Renée and Phil are going to be trickier. She'll want the full story, for one thing, and for another, Phil plays baseball on a form of media for a living...
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Meanwhile, among other things: Lazarus and Kolya are discussing the pros and cons of moving to Mars.

[Bella? Are you busy?]
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[Not with my whole brain. What's up?]

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[If Kolya moves to Mars, will you ignore him whenever he has his power on?]

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[...Wait, are you saying I'd have an option? My power beats his?]

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