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...yeah, okay.  Fistbump.  "See you around."

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Would the new esper perhaps care to check into the hotel, that she might obtain a room for herself and her support staff?  There's an ESPER CHECK IN HERE sign and a bored-looking young man at a desk who might want to know.

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That sounds like it would require her to stop walking.

She strolls past the checkin desk and says "Hey I'm an esper and my backlash is I can't stop walking can I send my brother to check in - "

(From her tone and expression, she is keenly aware of what a stupid thing this is to have to say, and she hates it.)

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The bored young man quickly becomes a Walking Young Man.  He'll slap a bell and jog 'till he's at her side.  "Your brother can if you prefer, or I can walk with you?"  He's not quite so professional as to treat this as completely normal but he's willing to humor her, at least.

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" - sure, okay," she says.  "I'm goin' by Nitro."

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"Nitro...Nitro..."  He'd normally do this on his computer, but he's got Racehorse on his phone.  "Looks like...uh.  Nitro's on record as being..."  An Asian-looking man?  "... probably not you?"  He pulls up the mugshot, looking really apologetic.

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"...yeah that's not me," she says.  "Is there already a Nitro.  Can I just be another esper with the same name."

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"Yeah, Racehorse rules, they don't wanna sign the wrong gal up for the wrong dungeon on accident.  Are you new?"

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"Yeah.  Can I just be Nitro Two for today until I think of something better."

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"... sure."  He'll have to figure something out with his boss, but fuck it, they pay him to make things easy, not hard.  "How many rooms do you need, and what do you need for backlash accommodation?"

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"I'm hopin' to find somebody to guide with while I'm here.  I guess I gotta walk around a lot until I do?  Uh, can I get two rooms?"  Do they even let a twelve year old sleep in his own room in a hotel.  Well, don't sell yourself out if you don't need to.

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"Two rooms, got it.  There's a ballroom over that way that we've got set up as a dining area, and if you could shake hands with Kevin at some point so we can verify your status as an esper, that'd be much appreciated."  He's going to have to put sooooo much 'N/A' on this form, isn't he.  This would be easier if Nitro Two over here just had an esper ID card, but nooooo.

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"I mean..."

She lifts a couple inches up off the ground.

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WELP.  "Yeah okay, that's fair.  Good enough.  Uh, come by the front desk, I'll have your keycards in a few minutes, okay?"

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"Sure thing."  She cuts her power and lands, stumbling a little but not slowing down.  "If my brother comes lookin' for me can you tell him I'm in the ballroom?"

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"What's his name?"  So I don't set myself up for a lawsuit.

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"Lucky.  ...he's twelve," she adds, sounding like she anticipates her defeat in re: getting away with not revealing this to him.  "Yea high, brown hair, little bit sarcastic.  He'll know me as Nitro or Parry or the girl who can't stop walking."

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"Nitro, Parry, Girl Who Can't Stop Walking.  Got it.  I'll give him his own keycard if you're okay with that?"

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"...he's who the second room's for."

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"Right, I just need to confirm that - sorry, I mean whether or not it's okay to give the keycard to his room to him without you present.  Since he's a minor and all."

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"...yyyyyeah that's fine."

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He shoots her a wry it's the rules I gotta not lose my job, sorry type of look.  "Alright, you're all set.  I'll see you when I see you, then, Nitro Two."  He strides back to his desk, whereupon he immediately messages his boss to figure out how the hell you're supposed to check in an esper who doesn't have a goddamn anything in the system yet.

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Thumbs up.  Off to the dining ballroom.

Okay is there anyone here who looks like they're milling around trying to find somebody to do guiding with, can she copy what they're doing without breaking her gait.

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There's a fair few people.  They're eating, drinking, some are chatting.  Two of them are playing some kind of handheld console next to each other in a corner.  The nearest one is a green-haired guy who's leaning on a structural pillar, scrolling on his phone.

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...nnnot green haired guy.  She does not want to guide with a guy, that sounds weird and bad.  None of these people look especially interruptible but maybe she can waylay someone on their way to the buffet table.  She will probably wind up saying something stupid like "uhhh I don't know how to do this but I gotta find someone to guide off some backlash for me, can we check."

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