"Do you two have a place to stay here?"

"Nah. I don't think we've even been here a whole hour yet."

"So we're only a bit behind you, huh?"

She nods. "Dunno yet what they do for currency, but alchemy's been pretty easy to make a profit off of before."

"Let's go exploring, then."

She turns to El. "Up for more of that?"

Nod. "I don't think anything else is going to be as disconcerting as, uh, this," she gestures at their alts, "so my scale is recalibrated a bit."

Giggle. "They definitely put 'weird' and 'new' in perspective."

Smile. "So yeah, let's go back out on the scene."

She keeps hold of El's hand when they stand. To their alts, "We came from that direction when exploring," with a gesture. "It's pretty much residential around here, but there was like an entertainment district, then a worker's residential district, then an industrial district."

She elbows Ruby. "Feel like going clubbing?"

"Any excuse to dance with you, darling."

Quick kiss.

"Okay, let's go. There'll probably be hotels near there, too."

Bellona nods. (The flirting and - kissing - is so weird.)

She leads the way back toward the entertainment district, still clinging to El's hand. "Figure we should try and blend in with the locals more?" she asks her sister when she spots someone else out late, in the sort of clothes Bellona's starting to recognize as 'futuristic dance clothes.' (Transmuting clothing is, fortunately, pretty easy.)

"Might be good," El replies, casting about for more examples to copy.

Some of the materials they might need a sample to actually copy - some of the fabric definitely has weird effects (shifting colors when it moves seems to be pretty common), and more than a few people have glow in the dark patches or small lights outright incorporated. Skin coverage is pretty low, probably partially because it's warm out, but the parts that're actually covered are mostly loose and flowing, and a lot of people's outfits incorporate gossamer cloth (sometimes with sparkling things embedded). The fabric doesn't move exactly like anything El or Bellona have seen before - and the sheen's definitely very different, natural fibers usually aren't that glossy. Lots of people have tattoos the fabric's cut to reveal. Hair accessories are also pretty wild and colorful, lots of unfamiliar materials - some might be plastics derived, though. Color schemes are mostly 'black or dark primary color with bright highlights.' There doesn't seem to be any kind of distinct gender divide in fashion. They could probably pretty easily transmute their own clothes into at least a more subtle version...

Bellona hums thoughtfully.

El, after some thought, turns her clothes into a swishy skirt and loose sleeveless blouse, in a dark green.

"That's alchemy?" Ellie asks interestedly.

"Yup!" Bellona says. "Alchemy's variously fancy applications of transmutation."

She copies El's lines and color so they're matching, highlighting her dark green with flecks of golden accents, modifying it so her blouse is gossamer over a solid crop top, showing off her stomach and shoulders, her hair piling itself into an aesthetically sloppy bun secured with sparkly metallic hair sticks that used to be her buttons.

"Pretty," El says.

Ellie hums. "Could you do that for us?"

She grins at her sister, shoulder bumping her. "I'm gorgeous. And, sure, alchemy's not costly. Any design requests?"

Ruby sticks her hands in the pocket of her jacket. "Keeping my collar's mandatory," she says, tilting her head a bit so the blood-red collar's obvious, making the tiger-head bell chime a bit. "And I want to match my Ellie. Other than that, have fun."

El tilts her head, considering Ellie.

She grins. "You can probably guess my taste."