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Awwwwwwww.

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Bella goes back into the bar to ask someone relatively unoccupied for more information about how this place works. She comes back armed with the results, shares with the group, and budgets a few more hours to stay and talk to Etty before it'll be ruinous to her sleep schedule - the holiday will be over soon and Celo will thereafter be in violation of Milliways rules, anyway. Any of them may find a door again in the future, so it's not necessarily goodbye forever; even if they aren't there at the same time they'll be able to leave notes at the bar.

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Etty and Nona have clothes and no pressing obligations at home, but Etty thinks she'll probably leave when Bella does.

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Celo thinks that if there's going to be rules about him not being naked in a little while, he's going to make the best of the time he's got. He goes back inside.

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Etty and Bella start writing down things about each other to take home. They fill most of the notebook in the hours left of the bar holiday, and then they hug each other, and they head for the door.

Etty leaves first.
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Nona finds Celo to say goodbye to him, and then she leaves too.

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Which leaves Celo standing by the doorway with Bella.

"Guess we should head out too, huh?" he says.

"Guess you should," agrees a voice from behind them.
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...Bella looks over her shoulder.

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Coach Callahan grins.

Celo rolls his eyes.
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"What is going on?"

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"Meet anybody interesting?" inquires the coach.

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"Besides you?"

(One of the things Bella learned about the bar is that it is very safe. To a first approximation, you don't get in here if you're going to be violent to other patrons. To a second approximation, there is very good security.)
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"I'm a sweet, harmless little girl and don't let anybody tell you different," says Callahan.

Celo snickers.
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Bella will be busy restraining the urge to unethically mind-read Callahan over here.

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Callahan pats Celo on the shoulder and pushes past him to walk out the door, which opens on somewhere other than their dorm, for her.

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When the door closes, Bella says, "I'm so confused."

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"No shit," says Celo.

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"I'm also excruciatingly tempted to just look."

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"I don't know why you're not, but in case 'she might kill you' isn't one of the reasons already: she might kill you," says Celo.

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"That's a reason. Also it would be unethical."

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"Yep," he says. "And she might kill you."

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"Yes. I do not at all doubt her ability to kill me."

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"Good, 'cause she could so do it," says Celo.

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"Anyway." Bella pushes open the door. It is their hall again.

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Out they go, into their hall.

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