Bella wakes up in the hospital.
She is not critically low on gem clarity, so she has the next two hours to herself to think as long as she doesn't make noise, which she doesn't, and foxes all the monitors attached to her real quick before they beep, which she does; she could go out the window but she has no plans for this loop which require her to skip town. She clicks her heels together and gets into her costume and pulls out a notebook to organize her itinerary.
That makes sense. You probably can't rebiologize yourself; for the Maiar that's very hard.
Enh, I've seen girls who make their hair grow out in unnatural colors and such and one said she used magic so she wouldn't need glasses anymore, what I'm not sure is if I can run your quality of vision on a purely physical substrate or if it has to be magical.
...yes? But if it's dyed a color, then when the roots grow in they won't be that color.
Oh. I think we can change that, it's just a very provocative thing to do so most people wouldn't.
Maybe it's not, for humans, and that's why so many of you keep it so short? I thought they were just rejecting being attractive, or very sick, or something.
Bella blinks at her. I could grow my hair out but it'd be inconvenient. People like their hair all different lengths. Raine's got hers buzzed to almost nothing on the sides and a little longer than that on top and I assure you she thinks it's very fetching that way.
Elves almost all keep it long and it's considered very intimate - it'd be inappropriate to let people touch it - when I was younger I'd have friends over and we'd braid each others and we knew we were doing something wrong but we didn't know how wrong until my father found out.
...well, among humans no one will fuss about friends braiding each other's hair. It's not substantially more intimate than a hug or touching somebody's arm or whatever.
It's a little distracting but I knew that different worlds would have different customs and things.
I can braid it if you prefer? I don't really care either way.
Okay. Anyway, now that I have an infinite soul gem charge hack I'm much less wary of experimenting with potentially expensive magic, I'll probably try the vision thing - but not at night, I'll want to monitor expenditure and can't do that in my sleep.
Yeah, this is about that time. It won't keep me up if you want the TV on or something - TV is like crossing theater with the existence of the video camera I showed you, basically - but both that and books have the language barrier problem...
I should probably start learning the language anyway, I will want it eventually. Is the TV a good way to learn?
It's not great, but it's an improvement over staring at a wall all night, I guess. There's shows expressly designed to help kids pick it up but they won't air at this hour, let me see what there is...
Eventually Bella finds her a channel of mediocre drama movies and turns it on softly enough that she'll sleep through it, shows her how to turn it off if she wants, and she goes to bed.
The movies are utterly horrifying and she ends up curled against the bedboard, appalled, though she doesn't turn them off.
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