Feral's there, sitting by himself at a deserted table, as usual.

Huh. No Tony? Maybe Tony got hungry earlier or something. Bella sits with Feral. "Hi!"

"Hi!" says Feral. "How's your friend?"

"Sherlock can't sleep with somebody else in the room," Bella says, "is what turned out to be wrong. He's catching up on sleep now and tomorrow the healer's going to give him a potion to try."

"Oh, wow," says Feral, wincing. "Hey, good for the healer."

"Yeah, and he also gave him some - something that woke him up enough to have a conversation about what the problem was. Wizard coffee," says Bella, "I guess."

Feral laughs. "Wizard coffee. Awesome."

"Well, he didn't say what it was. I should've asked. Maybe I can describe it to the potions teacher and find out." She writes this down.

"You write stuff down a lot," he observes.

"Otherwise I might forget it," Bella explains.

"Smart!" says Feral.

"Lots of people write some things down. Like grocery lists and class notes. I just write more things down, like what I want to look up later and what I'm thinking."

"What you're thinking?" he repeats, curiously.

"Yeah. Because if I don't write it down, then it goes away, and then I don't know for sure what I thought, because I might remember it wrong. And then I wouldn't even know who I was pretty much because I'm what I think."

"Well, yeah, but I could be me and not know who me was," she says. "If I forgot enough stuff."

"You'd have to forget a lot," he says dubiously.

"I don't even want to not know little bits about myself, though. I think I'm interesting," says Bella.

"I think you're interesting too!" says Feral.

Bella giggles. "I don't let other people read my notebooks, though," she says. "Sorry."

"That's okay," he says. "I like finding out about you other ways."

"What d'you want to know?" inquires Bella brightly.

"Well," he says musingly, "who are you, if the answer's not just 'you'?"

"Well, English speaking people don't have to talk about a lot of me, so there aren't great words for it," Bella says. "But I know things about what I'd do if different stuff happened."

"Huh," says Feral. "I like knowing that about people. But most people don't, until the stuff happens."