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The following morning, Bell hears what sounds like a fire alarm. It's not in their building - it's at least a block away. From her window, she can clearly see the house that's caught, near the train station, and just as clearly see that there isn't any bucket brigade handling it yet.
She seizes her wand from the nightstand and assumes control over the fire; if there's anyone in the unburnt part of the house they'll be able to get out. "SHERLOCK! TONY!" she calls.
Bell wants a second opinion before she snakes this fire down the corner of the house and over the grass to destroy the train station.
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she_sells_seashells
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"Not really. Unless you say she has a jetpack or something." Pause. "That would be cool. I wonder if Tony wants to build bear jetpacks."
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"I'm starting to wonder what you're talking about, there," Isabella remarks, as Shell Bell finishes writing up her profile and Isabella takes the book to add her own.
"I'll tell you later," Path promises. "We just need to have this conversation directly."
"I'll tell you later," Path promises. "We just need to have this conversation directly."
truthwright
"Really, though," Petaal says when she's calmed down a little, "if we went to Augustine and said you might kill us, she wouldn't let you. She lives in an old fortified tower. It's hard to shoot anybody through a stone wall."
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"Hard, yes," Path concedes, back at his soft volume. "And just like I doubt she'd get far gone enough to do it in front of me I doubt she'd get far gone enough to besiege you for any length of time. Maybe. I'm not sure. It's so hard to be sure."
truthwright
"I don't think she'd do it at all," says Petaal. "And I do think you want to know for sure, either way. And this might be the best chance you get to find out. Well, until you find an alethiometer, I guess."
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"We are going to find an alethiometer. Soon," says Path. "You're smart. You're so smart!" Nuzzles!
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"Are you going to tell me what smart thing you two cooked up?" Isabella asks dryly.
"Yes yes yes," chatters Path, flying to her shoulder and whispering rapid-fire into her ear.
"Yes yes yes," chatters Path, flying to her shoulder and whispering rapid-fire into her ear.
she_sells_seashells
"Iiii'm going to go get keys and give one each to my Sherlock and Tony and to Matilda," says Bell. "And maybe to the other Sherlock and Tony too if they want them."
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"Sounds good," says Isabella, distracted by her daemon's summary.
she_sells_seashells
Bell is beginning to be tired of all these stairs. But she did go and put "tower" in the name of her little club.
She seeks out Sherlox and Tonies and a Matilda to inquire after whether they may desire keys.
She seeks out Sherlox and Tonies and a Matilda to inquire after whether they may desire keys.
Matilda is easily identifiable by the pile of cornucopias in her lap. All that gold draws the eye pretty well.
she_sells_seashells
"Ooh. Many cornucopias," says Bell. "Hi. D'you want a key to the Belltower?"
"...Sure!" says Matilda. "And yes. They're for you."
she_sells_seashells
"Trade you," Bell says, holding out the key, and she starts scooping cornucopias into her jeans pockets. (They're decorative, but she was going for practical, and that means pockets.) "How many of these are you going to make? Are you going to make dozens of the unicorns too?"
And she looks around for anything shieldy or amulety.
And she looks around for anything shieldy or amulety.
Matilda accepts the key.
"I can make more unicorns too," she says. "But I was trying to improve the cornucopias. That's why they have release versions on them," she adds, showing Bell the tiny digits engraved on the rim of one curling golden horn. "I'm just about done with the improvements; to get them any better I'd have to brush up ony my biochemistry."
"I can make more unicorns too," she says. "But I was trying to improve the cornucopias. That's why they have release versions on them," she adds, showing Bell the tiny digits engraved on the rim of one curling golden horn. "I'm just about done with the improvements; to get them any better I'd have to brush up ony my biochemistry."
she_sells_seashells
"What are the differences?" Bell asks, picking up one that won't fit in her pockets and looking for the release version. It says 2.3.
"1.x aren't as good at complicated things," she explains. "2.0 and above can do cake! And maybe more importantly, they can do things like 'bag of flour'. And I made them better and better at paying attention to nutrition and taste."
"As a general rule, the more steps it would take to make it yourself, the more complicated it is," she says. "Bread, cake, all that."
she_sells_seashells
"Okay. But a bag of flour is also complicated? Because it's processed? The early one could do - a stalk of wheat, right?"