". . . Thanks?"

Shrug. "Is there anything else I can do for you?"

"I think it would be useful to keep at least this one of me - and probably more - in Londinium, in case anything happens that I can handle which it would be useful to cut down on travel time for.  Since I'm kind of like a set of living phones, myself."

"Oh, that makes sense. I should get you a hotel room or something then."

"It might also be useful to have someone else along, in case incarnation works well for a while and then goes badly, or if something requires enough of my attention that I have trouble piloting this body, or just if being dead for a while makes it hard to navigate this environment in some way."

"I continue to have a cat."

"Lots of hotels let you bring cats."

". . . Also he's a person and Cam'll back me up on that.  - She, dangit.  I was doing so well with that but it usually goes the other direction - "

"Yes, the cat's a person. Ellie, would you actually object if I went about purchasing your you and then freed you and hired you as Felicity's Londinium helper?"

". . . I, um.  Um?"

"...to be clear I am not planning to do that against your will, buying people over their objections is the sort of thing I frown upon very seriously actually."

"I don't . . . have a strong preference???"

"...I wasn't really expecting that but you do you, I suppose."

"I assume it's that you have a lot of feelings about both of those rather than not having very many feelings about either, right?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, well, you don't have to decide right this minute, I can probably bumble through getting -" He assesses the color of Felicity's sweater. "- Goldenrod Felicity a hotel room."

"If you're going to buy me then you should wait to do that until after we've tried for the tour, but also we could go to a hotel before then either way as long as it allows cats and isn't too far from work or anything."

"Oh, actually could you - hold on I'm going to look something up."

"Is what you're going to look up relevant to finding a hotel?"

"No, we can go ahead with that."

"Alrighty then. Ellie, do you know where to start looking, because I don't."

"Sure, um, what sort of place do you want?"

"I'm not going to stay there! Criteria I have heard so far are 'allows cats' and 'not too far from your work'."