"Thank you. G'night."

And she flops on the couch and sleeps.

Agnieszka will still be in her bedroom a normal-sleep-duration later.

Then Bella will quietly look for a way to leave a thank-you note, and then if she can do that she'll let herself out.

There’s a fridge-mounted whiteboard that says "endive carrot fruit cheese" and is mostly empty.

(Whenever she next checks the status of her application she’s been approved.)

Oh good, where does she go to be collected back to the Republic?

It’s a bit of a hike out of the city. There's a little park with a ring of tallish flowers surrounding a neat circle of low ground cover whence someone can take her to an area designed very similarly to the one where she first appeared when she died.

She will go be in the flower circle, and start trying to figure out lodging in which to be dead.

There are apartments that let you move in first and pay later if you can describe a plausible strategy for becoming able to pay, produce references, or otherwise demonstrate that you’re basically okay as a person. There are campgrounds she could stay at. There are apartments that offer discounts to people who really really credibly demonstrate that they’re likely to do socially valuable things later. There are people with couches who want to meet new people and keep up with the modern era. There are people looking for live-in servants. There are assorted historical reenactment villages with openings.

Maybe she will live in a historical reenactment village in fifty years. How does one demonstrate that they're likely to do socially valuable things later?

Having done them on Earth, having committed resources to trying to do them on Earth, having agreed to some kind of contract obliging service later... or other things, they can be flexible.

She's a high schooler! Can she book an interview and hope sheer enthusiasm will carry the day?

She can have an interview just in case.

Is that right away or in the future?

They can fit it in today but not instantly.

Today not instantly is fine. She'll sort through couch offers in the meantime trying to find someone who will find her satisfactory and be okay to room with, in case she can't get a social-value apartment.

Does she like the man with two wives and four adopted kids? The lesbian separatist commune? The single academic who lives alone with his library? The extremely chill person with wings who lives with a wolfdog on a ranch?

The academic sounds great actually!

His place isn’t very far from her other appointment. He’s got a tiny sunroom that’s like an inflated window seat, with cushioned benches along three all-glass walls; it’s surrounded by enough trees to not be super exposed.

Nice. Does she just show up, or make a phone call, or...

She can borrow one of this huge collection of phones to call him.

Ring ring.

"Hello, who’s calling please?" he answers in Sumerian because that’s the language he was just listening to music in.

Trippy. "Hi, my name is Bella and I'm calling about your offer to host recently dead people and be caught up on current events."

"Hi, Bella, it’s nice to meet you. Where’d you come from and are you used to books?"

"I came from Washington State in the USA and I love books."