A Bell in a superhero setting! No, not that Bell! No, not that superhero setting.
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Isabella desires INTERNET CAPABLE DEVICES. And also a change of clothes or three for Xander. She collects him and gives him some of the money so he can shop for his outfit, as this is in no way something she is well qualified to do.

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Obtaining INTERNET CAPABLE DEVICES is wholly within her power, as this world does indeed contain electronics stores and little booths in malls that are cell-phone stores and stores that sell random objects that occasionally include prepaid phones! There are clothing stores, many of them near electronics stores and/or malls and/or stores that sell random objects that occasionally include pre-paid cellphones! 

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Then Isabella and Xander will make mall purchases! Do they have a voucher for the food court or is their food thing more specific than that?

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Their food thing's more specific than that. But they do have money, and as it happens mall food courts take that!

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"It does seem like a waste not to use the voucher." Xander says this around a mouthful of Panda Express noodles so it's perhaps not very convincing.

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"Think of it as subsidizing the other recipients of such vouchers. We're making issuing them cheaper by decreasing the number of -"

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"Safeword!"

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"Xander for the millionth time you can say 'no more economics' without being weird about it."

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"Can I though."

At any rate, they eat their food and then go back to the hotel. With their INTERNET CAPABLE DEVICES. Xander wants to know if they made the news.

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Yes! Yes they did. Mirror fought a supervillain and some people showed up from an alternate dimension, and that's definitely a story. Do they have photos of the dimensional travelers? They do not. But they have lots of speculation!

... Also, apparently some people are talking about (and have taken photos of) a winged woman who's new in town, though the connection between that and the 'alternate dimensions' thing is also speculation, if unusually plausible such.

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Have they assigned her a SUPERHERO NAME he can tease her about?

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Not yet! There's some speculation about whether or not she already has one, though.

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"You need a superhero name."

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"...Rosella?"

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"Acceptable but it locks you in to the color scheme."

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"I can change the name later."

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Time passes! They get a couple messages (on the hotel phone) asking to arrange interviews; Twentieth Century wants one tomorrow and HE-Tec can do next week.

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They have nothing else scheduled! She gives them her new email address.

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Great!

They are not murdered or attacked or anything by supervillains during the night, and in the morning they can get free Continental breakfast (or find a breakfast place) and then it's time for Isabella's interview with Twentieth Century!

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They eat continental breakfast and Isabella flies to her appointment!

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The Twentieth Century Foundation is based in one of the stranger-looking buildings in the city, a gigantic tower that looks - sort of like a cathedral would look like if it was made by the designer of the Starship Enterprise? Shining metal and glass and plastic, sweeping outwards and upwards to lead the eye up to the heavens. Whoever it was didn't just have a good architect, they had a weird architect. The inside fits the same aesthetic, too; like you've traveled sideways fifty years and forwards three hundred. The people at the desk inside are dressed normally, though, and their phones and computers look perfectly ordinary, as they wave her to a sleek (and unnaturally smooth) elevator to ascend to her appointment.

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Huh. Sort of like a Thaumatologist temple only huge and sci-fi.

Elevator!

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Elevator goes to appointment!

It's a nice office (albeit an office designed by someone who was thinking about spaceship bridges) with a middle-aged woman in it, who's happy to offer Isabella a hand to shake and her name, Mya Carter, and a chair that looks designed to fit people with wings. There's a window on one wall, and a very slowly-shifting picture of elaborate constellations of stars on the other.

"So, tell me about your Earth," she says once they're seated.

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"Well, it doesn't have superheroes and supervillains, and instead it has magical girls and swarms."

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She nods. "Yes, thank you. Has that been the case forever, or did it suddenly happen at some point?"

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