[Yes, thank you for reminding me,] he sighs.

[Yes,] says Lazarus, caught somewhat off-guard.

[Aww,] says Bella, unexpectedly delighted.

[Who goes around asking people that?!] he wonders despairingly.

[I wanted to know,] says an unrepentant Alice.

[Alice goes around asking people that,] Bella says helpfully.

[Apparently!]

[Astonishingly, one can get used to him.]

[Really? Are you sure?]

Alice giggles.

[Well, I managed it. It took me a while, though.]

Now it is Alice's turn to ask, [Really?]

[Did it really take me a while or am I really used to you?] Bella asks. [I don't mean you're overwhelmingly predictable or seem normal to me, that's not the same thing.]

[Either,] he says. [I mean, if you ever got used to me, I don't think I noticed.]

Lazarus snorts.

[I have formed the background expectation that you will be around, and have a basically serviceable model of what that should mean to me,] Bella says. [If you disappeared, this would be alarming and require mental adjustment. I'm calling that being-used-to-you.]

[Gotcha,] he says, weirdly pleased.

[Anything interesting going on?] Bella asks, with that subject exhausted.

[Is baking interesting?]

[Comparatively.]

[Ooh, carrot cake,] Bella comments. [Lazarus, we could teleport you something to eat, right? Assuming you eat neatly without the benefit of a plate and pretend to be hungry when Libby-or-whoever fetches you there should be no associated informational giveaway.]

[...I'm not sure how you plan on the food arriving neatly without the benefit of a plate, but beyond that, yes.]

[I was thinking "land in the hand wearing the watch"; would that refer too directly to you, in your expert opinion?]

[Yes. If you end up referring to me, it won't work, even if you only end up referring to me because I happen to fit a criterion like 'wearing Kolya's watch'.]