[Is that not generally known? Am I embarrassing?]

[Embarrassing is not the word I would use.]

[Disproportionately attention-getting?]

[Yes. Yes exactly.]

[Yeah. Being disproportionately attention-getting is kind of a Bell thing. We are not all Empresses, but we are all powerful busybodies.]

[I am okay with knowing a powerful busybody but I am not okay with everyone knowing that I do.]

[Understood.]

[So how has your empressing been going?]

[Pretty well, but I am behind several of my alts who have had longer at it than I have, especially since we recently had a temporal de-syncing and I lost way less time than many of the others. On the other hand, now I can steal more of their ideas.]

[That sounds like a win to me!]

[Quite likely!]

[It is always nice when someone else goes first to make all the mistakes for you,] Janine says wisely.

[They didn't make that many mistakes.]

[That is also nice!]

[Anyway, how are you doing, how's school?]

[School is good! I am doing well. I continue to be good at things. I also have not dropped anything irreplaceable in some time, that is nice.]

[Not dropping things is great. If you do drop anything irreplaceable, lemme know, I'll replace it.]

[You are handy to have around!]

[I try!]

Janine giggles.