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Bella finds it.
"Alli!" she twines. "C'mere."
"You c'mere. Easier for you."
"No, you need to come look at this, seriously."
"Okay, fine, where are you?"
"Garage."
So Alli comes out to the garage. Their parents aren't home; Charlie's working, Renée is volunteering with some of the refugee kids at a shelter, trying to find which have parents who just wound up somewhere else, which need adopting, which are going to wind up coming of age adrift in the bursting-at-the-seams system. It's just them, not attending school, recovering.
"Whoa," says Alli. "So when you said you were at the garage, you meant that you were at the freakish restaurant that someone put in our garage."
"This isn't somebody's idea of remodeling," Bella says. "It's too big to be the garage."
"Do you think it's safe?"
"I think one of you should go in first, for sure."
"We don't actually know if I work that way," say two Alli voices, but Bella pushes one of them towards the door anyway.
Nothing happens.
The Allis converge, inside the bar. Bella follows.
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point_b
thinkering
"Actual capes don't give a crap. I mean, usually, there might be oddballs. The ratings aren't secret, but it's mostly for the fan crowd to misinterpret and ooze over. Also, if someone wants to be a psychopath, it's to their advantage to hold back some of what they can or will do, or hide it, so the PRT will be less prepared."
whatamithinking
"Fair enough. Of course, some people aren't sensible enough to keep aces in their sleeves when they could be grandstanding instead, but those people are usually all other things being equal less of a threat."
thinkering
"And even the Thinkers with actual smartness-helping powers can be incredibly tunnel-visiony and stupid in other ways."
whatamithinking
"There is a difference between intelligence and common sense even in more mundane geniuses."
whatamithinking
"And of course the smarter you are the more destructive your lack of common sense can be."
thinkering
"I mean, at a certain point people can sort of substitute intelligence for common sense, if it's conventional intelligence. Does not work for Thinker powers or Tinker ingenuity, too specialized. I'm glad I was smart before I triggered."
thinkering
"Quite. I'm gonna see if I can get a door yet."
She tries. No door.
"Okay, I'm between projects and my internal clock thinks it's ten p.m.. If I'm camping out here I should probably get a room."
She tries. No door.
"Okay, I'm between projects and my internal clock thinks it's ten p.m.. If I'm camping out here I should probably get a room."
thinkering
"Thank you. And can I get some pajamas and a toothbrush and stuff like that...?"
Bar provides a neat little stack of items.
"Thanks."
Bar provides a neat little stack of items.
"Thanks."
"We should probably be getting home, too, before our sleep cycles are messed up too much," Helen admits.
"Thanks for giving me the opportunity to use an amplifier again," Marie adds.
"Thanks for giving me the opportunity to use an amplifier again," Marie adds.
"Well, hey, if we're ever in Milliways at the same time again and you need some kind of atmospheric alteration you know who to ask."
thinkering
Lorica, with the arm not occupied by her overnight objects, gives Flicker a hug. "Enjoy your ashbot. If you decide to hang around despite not being so obliged, see you in the morning. Nice to meet you, Verge."
point_b
"It's like noon, maybe one, now? It was pretty early when I found the place, even holding the door as long as we did didn't get us within spitting distance of our parents coming home."
whatamithinking
"Yeah, the only way we're all going to be awake at the same time 'tomorrow' is if Milliways time-warpery shoehorns it."