"...Chronicle," says Glass after a moment's thought.

"Honey," murmurs Glass. "Oh, I'm glad you didn't meet me when I was fifteen, I was a flippant little thing too - Aegis, can you be serious, I read the note in the Bellbook about you being badly socialized but surely if you're planning to be elected you're working on turning it off?"

Aegis sighs. "Sue thinks I'm funny," she mutters, and then she composes herself and says, "Steel, we're gonna pay attention, we're not gonna go around dismantling power structures just because they're there, only if there's something wrong with them that isn't patchable."

"Thank you," says Steel.

"You're welcome," grumbles Aegis, and she floats into the air like a soap bubble, looking for somebody else to talk to.

Steel hugs her wife.