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Bella is allowing a book to be written about her. She's given plenty of interviews for shorter articles, but at this time she thinks she (and Slipstick thinks she) has the measure of this particular author well enough to expect even a book-length piece to be neither a hatchet job nor an inconvenient exposé. They are having regular meetings, in the journalist's home, talking about what Bella's willing to reveal about magic, the death date prior to which she won't resurrect anyone 'just yet', and the ground rules of Saturn.
Bella's personal life is, for the time being at least, personal. The author asks, but stays shut down when Bella shuts her down.
bellfounding
tearingup
He sighs.
"So. No, I'm not really all right. But I don't even know if that should matter - I mean, I feel bad for cheating on you, someone fetch the world's tiniest violin, right?"
"So. No, I'm not really all right. But I don't even know if that should matter - I mean, I feel bad for cheating on you, someone fetch the world's tiniest violin, right?"
tearingup
...Ripper laughs.
It's only a pentagon to make a little violin appear, about an inch long, hovering in the air and playing very very quiet sad music.
It's only a pentagon to make a little violin appear, about an inch long, hovering in the air and playing very very quiet sad music.
bellfounding
She squeezes his hand, then sighs and floats into his chair and wedges herself in beside him.
bellfounding
"Eh, that would probably depend a lot on his reaction. I know that I can locate him and tell him off with effective impunity; the only satisfying part would be if he acted suitably told-off."
bellfounding
"Well, I suppose if he hadn't exercised his particular brand of awful we wouldn't have met."
bellfounding
"I don't think I will be doing that. He knows now you have a girlfriend - does he know it's me? Actually come to think of it you've still got that non-disclosure geas on you, don't you."
tearingup
"Yeah, I still do." He looks at her quizzically. "Why, would it have stopped me from telling him who my girlfriend is?"