"Well, sometimes worse places are still interesting."

They go pay for the clothes.

Kyeo has been made self-conscious about saying thanks, so he doesn't.

"Should we be planning to pay the money back?"

"No, I'll get reimbursed."

"And the government doesn't want it back either?"

"I mean, they're going to give you a stipend?  It seems kind of useless to ask for that . . . back.  From the money that they're already giving you."

"Fair enough, thought they might keep it separate for accounting purposes but it's convenient if they don't."

"I mean I guess they might; I wouldn't really know.  - Did you want to take these back to my apartment or should we do something else."

"Let's go change, we've been in these for a while."

Zoooom.  When they go outside it's maybe starting to get a little light out and by partway through the ride they can watch the sunrise.

And they can get into some of their new clothes at their host's house! ...now what.

"Are there other things you think you'll need for the trip?  - How much do you eat; is it time for that again?"

"Two or three times a day."

"I've gotten into the habit of four but I can do with less."

"Okay, and how much each time - I assume it's the same total amount per day no matter how many times you divide it . . ."

"Not necessarily, actually, it can vary a lot without it being a big deal, but breakfast was about a third of what I'd normally eat in a day."

"Okay, so then I guess at some point probably I should go back and get reimbursed and figure out whether they're going to work out getting your food for the trip or if we should be doing that.  - But probably before that it would make sense to figure out if there's anything else you need that we should be going and buying on our own first."

"Do you in fact have toothbrushes, is there someone who just keeps their teeth clean for copying?"

"We do in fact have toothbrushes, just I use chew sticks instead, and, um, that would be - a weird thing to share, here.  Cleanliness isn't copiable, or if it is we haven't figured it out yet, or if we have we have then we haven't figured out how to integrate it with the things people want more commonly.  If I run around enough - and don't just copy stamina from people in the middle of it - that I get sweaty, I still have to take a shower about it, since being clean isn't - a thing that actually exists, really.  But of course if you didn't mind not being clean for whatever reason and then got a toothache you could just copy somebody who doesn't.  - You're not going to get toothaches from one night without, are you, it just occurred to me you might have worse teeth in general than us - "

"No, one night isn't dangerous. If you copy stamina then you don't get sweaty? Sweat is a cooling mechanism, do you mean you're actually just copying temperature from someone who's cooler -"

" - I used 'stamina' as a shorthand for - the state of not having done much exercise, in a given moment?  It seemed like the closest word."

"And that makes you cooler."

"I guess so?  It's not the most salient thing in the moment, but like . . . if you're coming inside in the winter, and there's people who've been there for a while, you can warm up off of them.  Assuming your citrelièse is specced for it and I think most are."

"What sorts of things vary between citrelièse?"