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The bar is unusually empty. Just one girl, sitting on a barstool, reading one of a rather large stack of napkins.
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The establishment thanks her for her commitment to avoiding damage to the property and guests.
amongstherpeers
"Considering I'm one of the guests, it's pretty sensible of me," she chuckles, "but you're welcome."
the_charm
Eventually, all the books are full of shines in many colors, and substantial areas of the bar are taken up by stacks and stacks of many sizes of hard shine, and Lu makes sure all the hard shines they're going to take home can be physically moved, and then puppets hers - along with some purchases of her own from Bar - right out the door.
amongstherpeers
At that point, it is quite late relative to when Helen and Marie woke up, subjectively. Not totally convinced that they've gotten all the benefit they can out of Milliways, and preferring to try to get their biological clocks more in sync with their native time zone, they shove their shines out the door manually and flop down on the couch for the "night," having decided not to spend the money on a room.
cumulonimbus
When they wake up there is a little girl at the bar, reading napkins.
amongstthewinds
"Probably, yeah. When we went to sleep it had been about a subjective day since we woke up in the morning. Day being defined as the amount of time you normally spend awake, not twenty-four hours," she clarifies.
amongstherpeers
"Hiii," Helen says, a little more muzzily than Marie. She's not a morning person. "G'morning."
amongstthewinds
"In the universe I'm from, some people have powers. Mine are wind-based."
cumulonimbus
"I'm still learning. And I'm not supposed to be very much of the sky at once, I almost died being too much of the sky. But I can move clouds and focus sunshine and do wind and pull rain from one place to another."
amongstthewinds
"Nice," she sighs. "I can only work on a rather immediate scale. There was an amplifier, once, that let me be the sky over a whole continent. But it broke, and they stopped making them."
cumulonimbus
"Um, Bar says she can sell you anything as long as there were enough of it once."
amongstthewinds
"We don't have very much money right now, and they were expensive," she admits. "And it's very well known that they stopped making them, and people would want to know where I got it."