Bella goes on TV with Pat. It goes pretty well. She doesn't have a PR person yet, but running at 5x and thinking carefully means she doesn't trip over herself when called on to talk enough that most people would notice. She takes questions-slash-requests from the crowd, and winds up healing an amputee, showing off a pretty illusion of terraformed Mars over the crowd, and flying around. She gets to talk about the nice features of Mars, including the fact that any further amputees could just make their way there and sit in one of the medical devices for a moment to clear that right up. Pat gets to look like she "discovered" Bella. It's a decent arrangement.
Then the time designated for the spot is up, and Bella bids everyone goodbye and teleports away over the shouts of investigative reporters, and it's not currently baseball season so she goes ahead and extends her protection-from-media over Renée and Phil in case someone figures out who she is despite having only her first name to work with.
She goes to Moonstone Palace. She has nothing in particular to do. She decides to read Alice.
self_composed
[Not necessarily. We're postulating that she's a terrorist. I doubt any of me are far gone enough to stoop to non-consensual torture, but, you know. Big multiverse,] shrugs Bella. [For whatever it's worth, anyone that far gone also goes on an asteroid or equivalent.]
edgeofyourseat
[If we meet a you who'd hurt me even if I didn't like it, she still gets to hurt me. But I'm keeping the coins.]
self_composed
[I find it unlikely that any of me would do that purely recreationally,] muses Bella. [Even if they'd do it for other reasons.]
self_composed
[Indeed. Anyway, I could be wrong, we could never find a me like that, we could find one who fell into terrorism through unrelated means, whatever.]
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