"Not really. I don't know, I don't feel like I'm resting? I don't have emotions about everything but I do have actions about most of it."

"Yeah, it's just--there's different levels of not resting? I don't know, it's not really important."

"Yeah, there's not resting and then there's not resting and also on fire."

...Edie bursts out laughing.

"Fire has been used as a metaphor for my emotions so many times."

"Has it really?"

"Mostly by my sister while teasing me! But yes." Emily has since left, presumably for whatever she was leaving the house for in the first place and/or to inform their parents that the door was currently translocated.

"...Coming up dry on quips about burning passion."

"It's the thought that counts."

"So are we going to abscond upstairs again at some point or was that a one time thing."

"I see no reason whatsoever why it should be a one time thing."

"Cool."

The door: opens again.

Bella looks over her shoulder.

A man and woman walk in. Both of their gazes fall on Bella fairly immediately.

"Um. Hi, Mom and Dad."

"...Hi, Edie's mom and dad."

"So this is Milliways. And you're Bella. It's good to finally meet you; our daughter's had nothing but good things to say about you."

"...I hadn't expected to have been talked about much."

"Not often, but effusively."

"Mooom..."

"Should I not ask?" Bella inquires of Edie.

"Uhhh..."

"You're the first person she's had this strong a crush on who wasn't a fictional character."