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Bella finds Milliways in the moon palace instead of one of her balconies.
"Huh," she says aloud.
Then, to Alice, Libby, Elena, and Mary, and Lazarus except he autoreplies with a busy message, [Hey folks, Moonstone Palace grew a bar that I don't remember putting in, come check it out.]
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self_composed
her_imperial_radiance
"And then after that? Or are you coming back around then?"
prima-sequentem
"I can't tell when I'm coming back," she says, "but it's harder to tell who you might meet by accident when it's more than a year away. Hmm... errands... libraries. There's a librarian somewhere in Canada you should be avoiding."
her_imperial_radiance
"No libraries in Canada. Okay. Is there anything else you can tell me?" He's taking notes too, very seriously.
her_imperial_radiance
"Okay. Please come back when you can," he says anxiously, and he makes way.
Next is Gregory. "Even if it'd work out like his parents in the end, I just want it on record I am opposed to imprinting on a toddler," he says.
Next is Gregory. "Even if it'd work out like his parents in the end, I just want it on record I am opposed to imprinting on a toddler," he says.
prima-sequentem
"I am happy to steer you away from that," says Mary. "Let's see... oh, that's easy." She opens the calendar to May. "There's a movie you're going to want to see," she says. "See it on the twelfth, at, hm, ten o'clock.. It's not certain, but there's high odds you'll meet someone there that you'll get along well with, and there's no disasters waiting for you if she doesn't show."
her_imperial_radiance
"The second Wonder Woman movie's coming out then," he says, "is that it?"
her_imperial_radiance
"Cool, she likes superheroes then," he says approvingly, and he gets out of the way.
There are a half a dozen more unimprinted mobile-pack wolves to handle here, and then people keep handing her phones and wolves in La Push and Volterra and Québec and on a field trip to Safesun talk to her about their own prospects. It takes a long time. She averts many disasters and sets up many happy couples, and one fellow with an asexual woman who will like to have a devoted platonic friend and not break him up with his also-a-wolf girlfriend.
There are a half a dozen more unimprinted mobile-pack wolves to handle here, and then people keep handing her phones and wolves in La Push and Volterra and Québec and on a field trip to Safesun talk to her about their own prospects. It takes a long time. She averts many disasters and sets up many happy couples, and one fellow with an asexual woman who will like to have a devoted platonic friend and not break him up with his also-a-wolf girlfriend.
prima-sequentem
And when it's all over with, she gets to crawl under a blanket and not deal with people anymore. That is possibly the best part.
self_composed
A few days later, Bella tells Alice, [Elspeth found Milliways. She's the only local here. Come on, let's go.]
her_imperial_radiance
And through they go! Elspeth orders a case of her bubbly to go, then heads straight home, bidding "Grandma" and the others goodbye on her way out.
edgeofyourseat
At a table very close to the other door, the one that leads to Milliways-outdoors, Alice spots someone reading something familiar.
He teleports across the room.
"Hey, that's my favourite book!" he says excitedly.
He teleports across the room.
"Hey, that's my favourite book!" he says excitedly.
prima-sequentem
Libby glances after him; Mary doesn't even bother doing that. The pair of them return to Bella's palace.
self_composed
Bella decides she had better not leave him alone in Milliways, but as long as nothing actually happens there's no reason to insert herself into the conversation between Alice and the random girl reading Harlan Ellison. She glances around for someone interesting to pass the time with.
manofmyword
All the way on one of the other other sides of the room, sitting alone at a table for two with his back to the Window, a man with straggling greenish-brown hair and poorly maintained clown makeup is playing Solitaire.
self_composed
Now, wait just one...
Yeah. Bella's got good eyes. That's interesting.
She meanders in that direction, peering at the clown-Alice-clone.
Yeah. Bella's got good eyes. That's interesting.
She meanders in that direction, peering at the clown-Alice-clone.
manofmyword
He's wearing a lavender shirt and wine-red pants, both custom made, and there's a purple suit jacket hanging from the back of his chair that came from the same tailor. Under the liberally applied red lipstick, his face is impressively scarred. He licks his lips in a snakelike fashion when he thinks about his next move.
If he can tell she's looking, he isn't letting on.
If he can tell she's looking, he isn't letting on.
self_composed
"You - well - your underlying bone structure - looks familiar," she tells him, when she's gotten within a few feet of his table.
manofmyword
"Really," he says, glancing up at her with his face tipped forward as though looking overtop of imaginary spectacles. "Never heard that one before." He gestures invitingly at the empty seat across from him.
self_composed
She sits. "Mine's younger, not as scratched up, and makes different aesthetic choices, but yeah. I'm Bella. What're you going by?"
manofmyword
He hmms and tips his head from side to side, consideringly.
Then he puts his finger on a card sitting face down on the corner of the table to his left, out of the way of the solitaire game, and slides it sloo o o o o o o o o oowly across to Bella.
Then he puts his finger on a card sitting face down on the corner of the table to his left, out of the way of the solitaire game, and slides it sloo o o o o o o o o oowly across to Bella.
self_composed
Bella peers at the card and at the game. She picks up the offered card, inspects it.