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This. This is a good bar.
She does not mind taking counterfeit currency and she sells everything.
Bella is going to exploit the fuck out of that but first she is eating really, really good pad thai and finally talking to a person who is a) interesting b) not someone she has already talked to a lot in the last... several years. Lovely friendly bar who makes a lovely delicious pad thai! Bella will have to try opening that door at that moment again in the past.
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onceandforall
onceandforall
"So, we could move on to actual innuendo but I feel like I should warn you that I am an awkward virgin and double-check that you aren't weirded out by the thing where I'm technically a rock."
whatamithinking
"...As in your body has fossilized somehow or as in you're living in your jewel thing?"
onceandforall
"The latter. I've got a range of 100 meters on controlling my body from it. I've seen girls who lost their gems for whatever reason and as soon as it goes out of range they slump over and the body starts dying; if it gets all the way to dead they have to make a new one, and if they don't have the magic to do that... Anyway, all my senses are as normal or better, I continue to have the subjective impression of being located somewhere behind my eyes, etcetera, I could just imagine it creeping somebody out."
whatamithinking
"If you had been partly fossilized that might have creeped me out; if someone steals your gem thing and you start dying that might creep me out--actually my overall emotional reaction to that would be a bit more energetic than 'creeped out' implies--technically storing your soul in a pretty jewel does not creep me out."
onceandforall
"Okay, cool. It has other shapes, too, when I'm tromping around in jeans and a t-shirt it's just a ring, and it can be a sort of egg thing when I'm dowsing or cleansing it - although my new spell apparently doesn't care what shape it is."
onceandforall
"Yeah." She pulls it off her hand and it shapeshifts into an ornamental purple egg-shaped thing in a metallic casing. "Like so."
whatamithinking
"The alien things are definitely creepy, but I wouldn't say the rock itself is, no."
onceandforall
"Oh yeah. They're soft and cuddly and it's not until you know they're evil that you notice they don't fucking blink."
whatamithinking
"I think Emily was only interested in petting it because she was basically modeling it as an inanimate object."
whatamithinking
"In case there was any doubt, they were doing the fantastic adorableness on purpose as a manipulation tactic. And boy did it work."
onceandforall
"Yeah... that was pretty obvious in retrospect after I learned what they were up to."
whatamithinking
"But regardless of the paradoxical creepy cuteness of the aliens, the soul gem isn't, um, an impediment for its own sake. And I am also an awkward virgin, if there was any doubt."
whatamithinking
"Yes."
Is that a blush? It might be. Unfortunately if there's one thing anime would not lead one to believe a magical girl might be immune to it's blushing.
Is that a blush? It might be. Unfortunately if there's one thing anime would not lead one to believe a magical girl might be immune to it's blushing.
onceandforall
"I have actually already rented a room here in anticipation of staying for a week and given the givens I splurged. Wanna see it?"
onceandforall
Blush.
Okay. Stairs. Ascension thereof. Bella's in room 5114.
It is spacious and swanky as fuck, but in a "comfort is paramount and money is no object" way rather than a "showing off to the neighbors" way. It's done up in a palette of cream and wood-brown and burgundy. The carpet is deep and soft and may be on top of some sort of foam. There is a couch that looks like it wants to eat you in an extremely cushy manner. The bathroom, off to the left, looks like substantial portions of it could have been carved out of a single block of marble, and the bathtub (included in said portions) is huge. It is, apart from the bathroom, all one room - there is no kitchenette, no entryway, no parlor - so as soon as they walk in there is a clearly visible bed, silk-draped and king-sized and heaped with pillows.
She's got a big window, pale red-patterned curtains drawn aside. It shows exploding stars.
Okay. Stairs. Ascension thereof. Bella's in room 5114.
It is spacious and swanky as fuck, but in a "comfort is paramount and money is no object" way rather than a "showing off to the neighbors" way. It's done up in a palette of cream and wood-brown and burgundy. The carpet is deep and soft and may be on top of some sort of foam. There is a couch that looks like it wants to eat you in an extremely cushy manner. The bathroom, off to the left, looks like substantial portions of it could have been carved out of a single block of marble, and the bathtub (included in said portions) is huge. It is, apart from the bathroom, all one room - there is no kitchenette, no entryway, no parlor - so as soon as they walk in there is a clearly visible bed, silk-draped and king-sized and heaped with pillows.
She's got a big window, pale red-patterned curtains drawn aside. It shows exploding stars.
whatamithinking
"...Nice place. Counterfeiting's a useful skill when no one's actually getting hurt from it, it looks like." Is that a detectable hint of nervousness in her tone? It might be.
onceandforall
"I do plan to stop the counterfeiting when I'm in an economy with a future. At least outside of emergencies."
She sits on the couch. There is no need to dive straight for the bed as though they are porn characters.
She sits on the couch. There is no need to dive straight for the bed as though they are porn characters.
whatamithinking
Of course not. And that looks like a profoundly comfy couch. Sitting!
"Oh, sure. I expected as much. Milliways is a remarkably useful place for it, though."
"Oh, sure. I expected as much. Milliways is a remarkably useful place for it, though."