"Oh, I dunno, it's kind of fun when they're mean, don't you think?" Ruby is holding in her laughter a bit better.

She blushes more and buries her head in her arms.

"I'm revising that statement. You're all jerks."

That sets Ruby off into laughter.

Pat the poor baby.

She sighs dramatically and straightens up just so she can flop on her sister.

One last snicker.

"So what do we feel like doing today?"

Bellona shrugs. "I dunno what space people do for entertainment. Other than dance, I guess."

"They probably have some form of movies..." Ruby says. "Public performances of stories is, like, universal."

"A movie might be nice."

"Sounds like a date, then."

She pays for breakfast, tips nicely, and then they're ready to head to the theater (location courtesy of another scry).

Bellona's blush resurges a bit at 'date.' She sticks close to El.

(El is maybe blushing a little bit too, courtesy of a saucy wink from Ellie.)

Today's movies appear to be... A historical drama they have no context for, a war movie involving - okay actually that looks a lot like the aesthetics of magical girls and monsters from Ruby and Ellie's magic system, a romantic comedy about two girls who pretend to be dating, a revenge thriller involving time travel, a comedy about a serial killer and a teacher's pet college student swapping bodies, a couple kids' movies, a weird art film with an unclear plot that seems to involve talking animals...

Opinions?

The war movie could be interesting.

Or maybe the revenge thriller.

The serial killer comedy sounds fun...

Ruby's feeling the romantic comedy.

Flip some coins, then?

That'd be... one coin, two times. Heads-heads, war movie. Tails-heads, thriller. Tails-tails, serial killer. Heads-tails, romcom.

Kind of weird they all picked different things.

"I guess our tastes are sometimes different." Nudge. 

"Nurture winning out over nature, or maybe just stochastic flux."

"We need a larger sample size to really make even an educated guess, there."

"Watch more movies or find more alts?

"I was thinking more alts, but movie tastes are relatively easy to test."

"As we're doing right now, even. Who's got a coin?"