Idaia and Boots in Milliways
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"I'm not sure, depends on how this translation effect works. Swan? Swan?"

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"I heard the word the first time and something different the second time."

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"Well, the second one is technically my name, but I'll just use the bird. Where should I be from?"

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"Probably somewhere in the south of the country, if we're saying your parents were crazy religious conservatives and that's why you don't have any other documentation or vaccines or anything."

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"Vaccines. Wow, okay."

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"Science!"

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"More science than Valinor, even! Okay, where's a good south-y place?"

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"The most stereotypical places off the top of my head are Alabama or Texas, but we'd have to pick a town--oh, and I should teach you the basics of the religion, at least, for your cover story."

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"I can't just paraphrase Khersian stuff?"

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"I don't know enough Khersian stuff to answer that question."

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"I can pretend to be a specific religious background if it'll be more plausible."

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"Ah. Yeah, the places I was talking about are stereotypical for having crazy conservatives from one religion specifically, but pretending your parents were from some kind of obscure cult no one's heard of would also work. Makes geography less relevant, though."

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"It'll be easier to avoid verifiable mistakes on the obscure cult theology."

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"So if that unconstrains my geography where should I be from?"

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"Somewhere fairly far away from California where I am. Kansas, maybe."

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"Okay. Bar, can you pick me a place in Kansas?"

Bar picks her a place in Kansas. Now Bella has a prettily embossed certificate and a beat-up old passport with a picture of her at age nine cribbed from the local newspaper of her hometown, just recently expired.

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"Perfect."

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"I've got a little left over. If vaccines are real I'm tempted to name absurd science fantasy stuff but Bar cannot sell anything as big as a spaceship..."

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"We have spaceships but they're still insanely expensive."

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"Yeah, I don't have that much money on me. What else is hard to get and useful in your world?"

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"Hmm...nothing's coming immediately to mind, but that doesn't mean much. Bar? Any recommendations?"

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In this price range, very little. Possibly actual vaccinations.

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"...I wouldn't know how to administer one if you gave us a syringe."

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You can go around the corner to the infirmary.

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