Water is free, the bar assures her, and she decrements the pile of marks and dishes up a plate of eisbein.

She tucks in. "I wonder if we can trade technology, Bella. You don't have walkers, I don't have the ball things which admittedly won't be useful without 'mon but maybe there's something else."

"The ball things only work on 'mon," Bella confirms. "I'm not sure if walkers would be very popular, but they might. Uh, I'm not sure what else you might not have... I have a computer watch thing?" She displays her wrist.

"Ooh, computer, is it like a really small calculator?"

"...like that but much better?"

"Better how? Besides being small. I am extremely interested. Mechanical calculators are the size of a clothes basket."

"It's also a phone and it can store pictures and tell me where I am and it has watch functions like an alarm and stopwatch."

"A calculator and a phone and a camera and a fancy watch for - how much? No wait I need to learn how to make them. I can borrow books! ...Right?"

Certainly; I have all the books that have ever been published.

"~Tech-nol-ogy," she sings. "I can't believe I didn't think about bringing other worlds' technology back until now! Even if, what, about ninety dollars you said, isn't all that much to start with."

I will be able to find you excellent deals on prerequisite materials but it is a limitation, yes.

"Maybe I can pick a few things and run with them. Maybe I can move worlds!"

"Move worlds? Instead of bringing stuff back?"

"...Yeah. I mean. I'm sure they could use it, but I'm kinda scared of the idea. Things aren't really good in Berlin for a fifteen year old girl with no dad barely a mum and red hair even if she is a mechanic. Even if I showed up with some kind of technology... I don't know."

"...what does your hair have to do with it?"

"I'm not a real German apparently."

"...that's a weird sort of stereotype..."

"The bigots care about skin color too. And religion."

"Caring about religion is less bizarre, but still not very nice."

"Sometimes people aren't nice. Shocking, isn't it?"

"No, just disappointing."

She picks at her eisbein morosely.

"What kinda world would you want to move to?"

"Somewhere with no wars, where I have kind of an idea how things work or a job I could do or learn to do, and hopefully somewhere that doesn't care what color my hair is or that I-" she cuts herself off.

"...somebody with a nicer world might come along but mine's pretty peaceful."