If she is not told about said money impairment she will not know to offer to pay.

Yup, that's kind of the idea. "So, do you know anything else about what's going on?"

"Not really. Dad won't tell, he still takes me on Sideways mapping trips but somehow always manages to make them super short or something, and he's always busy doing this or that."

She nods. "Well, I'll figure it out."

"I'm still kinda freaked that Bedlam looks like me."

"Yeah. She obviously isn't, she doesn't move like you or think like you or anything, but it's really weird."

She sighs. "I don't know what to do."

"I'm not sure there's anything to do."

Oh wait - more typing, with a long confused pause in the middle: "I could ask Sadde about it, they know some things about her."

"Sadde?"

"The person who rescued me from the Sideways the first time I was there, after I met Bedlam."

"Oh! Are they a mapper, too?"

"I didn't ask, but I don't think so? They actually started orientation after we got out, I'm not sure why, maybe they were stuck there or something. We did use my power to get out again."

"Oh. So how'd they help?"

"Well, I was very new, I didn't know what to look for."

"Most people don't, though, even some mappers. It usually takes a lot of experience to learn."

"Finding the right kind of place, you mean, or even knowing what to look for in the first place?"

"Second thing."

"Huh. I dunno, then."

"Maybe you could ask them. Why do you think they know a lot about Bedlam?"

"I don't know if they know a lot, but they know more than I do, and it sounded like they know more than most people - they said most people don't think she exists, but they knew that, and some things about what she's like. They might not know this, but it's probably worth asking, if you're okay with them knowing about you."

She thinks about this for a while. "Are you sure they're not, you know. Part of the whole Cult thing?"

"I don't think so. It's not impossible, but I think if they were they would have acted different when they heard I'd found the Cult thing earlier - it was their idea for me to call the DoS."

"But the D.o.S. never did come, did they?"

"No, but if they were with the Cult they could have done something that actually hurt me, or tried to anyway. But if you don't want me to tell them about you, that's fine, I won't."

"I'm not sure if I'm not being paranoid, but... she looks like me."