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At least four people conclude that Bella and Celo have had sex and mention this to Bella. The fact that the door was open the entire time he spent hanging out in her room is apparently immaterial (since she wouldn't have been breaking any rules if she'd had sex with him that way, and no one was loitering in the hall supervising them the whole time). She contradicts them on this. Three people don't believe her. Miki does, and is immediately promoted to Bella's favorite out-of-class friend.
In Intro Psych for Subtle Artists, there's a discussion of what subtle artists do with their own minds, and how this differs from everyone else. Bella has already talked to all her subtle arts professors about her own peculiarities, and Professor Murray has her talk a bit about how she's used lucid dreams for introspection, self-modification, and memory boosting. Professor Murray then explains that people who aren't subtle artists can only rarely lucid dream, and even those who can don't find it an effective jumping-off point for any heavy-duty self-searching.
One of the elves in the class looks at Bella oddly through her little talk.
But she doesn't say anything, so Bella ignores her.
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subtly_artistic
Celo bakes things.
subtly_artistic
Bella does homework and periodically swings by to update her collection of baked things.
That works out well, then, doesn't it?
subtly_artistic
It does.
I'm curious, Bella asks about an hour later, when did I graduate from "asshole" to "worth rescuing from mad elves"?
I'm curious, Bella asks about an hour later, when did I graduate from "asshole" to "worth rescuing from mad elves"?
I dunno, he says. Didn't take that long. I don't really stay mad most of the time.
...Have you been going around all this time thinking I hated you because I called you an asshole once? That's weird. You read my mind for an hour, did you not notice the lack of me hating you?
subtly_artistic
Nursing an active emotional hatred doesn't always accompany thinking someone is an asshole. Not all opinions about nearby people float to the surface during every one-hour period. And I try to judge people more on what they choose to say and not on what idly crosses their minds.
Well, I like you, he says. Which is why I got those elves off your back.
subtly_artistic
And if you didn't like me you would've gone around and left me there.
I might've. Or I might've started shit just for the hell of it.
Elves are pretty serious. But none of those were ever in my martial combat classes, so I knew they wouldn't think I was a serious threat. They're probably gonna corner me next chance they get and try to cut my junk off again.
He is weirdly cheerful about this prospect.
He is weirdly cheerful about this prospect.
subtly_artistic
I don't think they've been permanently put off from the idea of kidnapping me to try to make me fall in love with their cursed friend, either.
Yeah, probably not. Don't let 'em catch you alone, he suggests.
subtly_artistic
That's my plan.
And after a silence:
How did you find out about the mermaids? Was one of the unfriendly ones unaware that you'd live to tell the tale?
And after a silence:
How did you find out about the mermaids? Was one of the unfriendly ones unaware that you'd live to tell the tale?
Yeah, pretty sure she thought I was human, he says. She might still; I don't think I ever saw that one again.
subtly_artistic
You walk around stark naked and don't get in trouble for it and she thought you were a human?
Yeah, the whole clothes thing? Not really universal, says Celo.
subtly_artistic
Don't they give foreign students cultural briefings about that kind of thing?
Not as much as you might think!
He laughs.
subtly_artistic
I got a response to my a-mail. Dean says she'll 'look into it'. Which is probably code for "do nothing", but at least now there's an aether trail if it happens again.