"Tough question. We're almost never... active together like this. Usually it's Solvei out in the world and me behind the curtain keeping track of what she does and doesn't know, and that's hardly companionable."

"Well, I'm glad it turns out you get along, otherwise it'd be very awkward."

"Wouldn't it just."

"You'd have all these internal arguments. The potential for sabotage would be enormous."

"We would not sabotage each other!"

"If you didn't like each other?"

"In our situation? If I had to share a body with somebody I disliked while both of us were under constant threat from an immortal person with magic powers, I would try very hard to like her more."

"That does seem reasonable."

"I'm a reasonable sort of person."

"Are you feeling better? Partly but not entirely separately, should I ask Charlie if we can have a sleepover?"

"We're feeling a lot better, but... that's a good idea anyway."

"We are not supposed to have my bedroom door closed if we're in there together, incidentally."

"Really? He knows we're only fake dating, right? He was there when we had the conversation."

"Yes, but he knows I'm a real lesbian. This is just the first time I've had a girl over at his house, my mom doesn't have this rule."

"Okay then."

"I'm not usually this social," says Bella. "Nor have this much contact with the teenage social scene in Forks, since in the past I've only been here summers. So I wasn't sure how he'd jump - before I came out the rule was boys, but the stated justification was that they could get me pregnant, and he didn't update it till now."

"I cannot get you pregnant," says Solvei. "Or at least that would be a really unhelpful use of magic."

"So unhelpful. Don't wish me pregnant. I could have an argument with him about the logic of this rule but we aren't actually dating, he'll trust me to the point of not requiring that he be home whenever you're here, etcetera."

"Yeah. But it would be nice if we could have the behind-closed-doors kind of conversation even when he was home. What with all the magic going around. ...I wonder what the reproductive status of magical girls is in general? I mean, Ghyslaine looks the same age now that she did in 1801, something is clearly going on with her biology..."

"I mean, she healed me from worse than wrinkles and arthritis, maybe she just freshens up annually or something. ...We could try having conversations telepathically if Kyubey will relay but we don't know if she can eavesdrop."

"We can ask Kyubey, I'm assuming it knows," says Solvei.

"Yeah. Think this batch of questions justifies calling it over? Charlie will be at work for another hour or so."

"I think if the 'teleport small objects' line of inquiry pans out, I'll know what my wish is going to be. So sure."