"Hello!" greets Lornell.  "I have a very weird request, are you up for that right now?"

"...if you'll fuck off if I say no, sure, hit me."

"Sure.  I'm a slider with the ability to copy traits from other people and I usually look older because I prefer to be as athletic as an adult is but I'm around fifteen of your years and I was wondering if I could, without changing anything about you, copy some of your looks-fifteenness so that people will have more-correct information about me based on how I look."

"If that doesn't change anything about me, uh, sure? I guess?"

"Thanks!"  Lornell brought along a handholdable mirror borrowed from Chirun and uses it to make small changes.  Between the neighbor and Chirun and Lornell's original face, they end up with something they're pretty happy with that doesn't look too much like either of the Greens.

"I think that'll just about do it."

"Okay, cool, you're welcome I guess." She shuts the door.

Well.  "I could do the registered photo series now but it's probably better to have my own money to pay for it, so I think that points to continuing with plan 'wait for your mom'."

"Yeah. It's a subway trip."

What's a subway trip oh that's a subway trip.  "I could always run it since I've got to do most of my own exercise now anyway.  But yeah."

"Oh, yeah, sure, let me pull up the map and you can run it." Chirun finds a map and picks out a route.

Which Lornell runs!  Whether they get there faster than the subway depends mostly on if the trip is long enough for the train to make up for times at stops.

Lornell gets there sooner mostly because Chirun has an unusually long wait for the elevator. Once he comes up he spots them and waves.

On the way Lornell remembers that copying off exertion interferes at least partially with keeping the benefits of exercising, so they're still out of breath when Chirun spots them.  Ughhhhhh they're going to spend so much time out of breath from now on.  Wave wave.

"Whoa, are you okay?"

"Yeah?" 

"I assumed when you suggested you'd run the whole way that you were, like, in condition for that, did you accidentally copy someone who's more sedentary?"

"I think the fittest person on the - on either planet can still exert themself if they try for it?  Normally I take not-having-exercised off someone else but I think that would counteract the point of exercising at all.  Maybe.  A couple of my friends spent a while as public officials for fitness and stuff; I'm just going off a few things I remember them saying."

"...is 'public official' definitely the word, that sounds so weird..."

"Oh, 'official publics' maybe?  They're people endorsed by the government as having certain traits; there are squares for them to hang out in so everyone can walk by and copy the most common or important things they need from them."

"I might go with 'official examples' or something."

"Noted."  Is it going to render Lornell's run pointless if they take thirstlessness off someone; surely not, right?  Right.

Anyway there's Chirun's childhood home. He walks up to the door and punches in the code. "- does your thing let you get passcodes? Like, don't do it, but could you."

"There might be people in countries other than the one I'm from who can do that sort of thing but no one in Creta would work on letting people get at anything so personal."

"It'd need working on? I thought you just... had it?"