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Prom arrives.
Bella wears her indigo dress and her indigo heels with their straps that go all the way up her calves, and she nukes Sherlock some breakfast, and she waits.
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"He's probably dead now," Bella says. "If he's not he'd be a hundred years old. You couldn't find him even then? Did it take a while for you to become a ghost?"
"He never came back to prooooooom," she wails, the word stretching out into an unearthly howl. "Do you know how infuriating that is? I get one night a year to walk around, and I can't even get far enough from where I died to go to the other end of the gym!"
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"That sounds really stultifying," Bella says sympathetically, hoping her wince looks like it has more to do with the ghost's plight than with her wail.
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"I bet. I'd hate being cooped up like that too. But he's never coming back to prom. Even if he's alive, he's been out of high school for many years now," says Bella quietly. "Can you - go on?"
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"I don't either," admits Bella. The ghost books don't have how-tos from the ghost's perspective. "Maybe we can figure it out, okay?"
[Giles, you awake?]
[Giles, you awake?]
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[I need to give the ghost instructions on how to move on. Help?]
"Would it help if you knew what happened to the guy who killed you?" Bella tries. "If I looked him up and said 'yes, he's dead' or 'he's in this nursing home' or - whatever?"
"Would it help if you knew what happened to the guy who killed you?" Bella tries. "If I looked him up and said 'yes, he's dead' or 'he's in this nursing home' or - whatever?"
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[Can you look up the dude who killed her, see what became of him, in the newspapers?]
And then she asks Jarvis the same thing, giving him all the details, and substituting "on the internet" for "in the newspapers".
"I'm asking some of my friends to help find out, now," Bella tells Minnie. "I'm telepathic so I can do that from right here."
And then she asks Jarvis the same thing, giving him all the details, and substituting "on the internet" for "in the newspapers".
"I'm asking some of my friends to help find out, now," Bella tells Minnie. "I'm telepathic so I can do that from right here."
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"I'm just explaining that when they get the answers I won't have gone anywhere but that doesn't mean I'm making it up. I want to tell you the truth," Bella says placatingly.
"Ugh," she says, but she doesn't do anything overtly hostile, or go anywhere.
Giles and Jarvis are quiet for a few minutes.
Giles and Jarvis are quiet for a few minutes.
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Jarvis ought to be faster than Giles for any number of reasons; she pokes him again first. [Any luck?]
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[Not so far,] he says. [I haven't restored all my old connections yet. The Internet isn't quite such an open book to me as I'm used to.]
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[Okay.] [Giles?]
"One of my friends is looking on the internet, and one of them is checking newspapers," she reports to Minnie.
"One of my friends is looking on the internet, and one of them is checking newspapers," she reports to Minnie.
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"It's - a lot of machines that act sort of like books crossed with phones and know how to talk to each other," Bella summarizes. "If you have a book-phone-thing you can find information that's on all the other book-phone-things."
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"Yeah, phones are neat!" says Bella. "Are you solid enough to hold stuff - d'you wanna see mine?"
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"Okay," says Bella, and she gets out her phone, and says to Jarvis, [Are you good enough at multitasking to not be slowed down if I call you by way of showing the Prom Ghost my phone?]