She asked if a dinosaur restaurant would be popular and I said I thought it would, as would live dinosaurs if everything worked out to harbor them comfortably.

I should put out a general request for ideas for more economic integration, see how many things like that there are.

Probably lots!

I will have people make them happen, then.

You free?

As it happens I am.

I miss you.

- in five and a half minutes come here via the hall with the blue tile and nobody spots you.

...in five and a half minutes she does that.

And then she is seized and kissed.

She couldn't have seen that coming at all.

Only great and powerful precognitives like Isabella can make such far-out predictions.

I was distracted all day, it was terrible, you're going to have to come up with a solution to that.

I could try to be less awesome. Nibble.

I don't believe you could.

Well, I could try. What was distracting you?

I've never had anything more fun than tax negotiations to look forward to, and I mean that with a sincere delight in tax negotiations.

Well, maybe in a week you'll be all jaded. Kiss.

Maybe in ten thousand years it'll turn out humans have short romantic attention spans and I'll be left bereft. Kiss.

I don't think human romantic attention spans have been tested to that extent so far but I think you can probably hold onto me if you want.

I notice that I'm rather strongly motivated!

Good.

Isabella has no idea how to make herself less distracting but she can try to make herself more motivating.

She didn't have, like, sincere complaints about distractingness. Everything's going smoothly anyway, and no matter how distracted she is she knows she isn't forgetting any because she has an eidetic memory because Isabella is excellent.

Isabella is excellent. She will prove it.

She will convincingly pretend to require proof.

How convincingly?