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Then Lucero can lead her downstairs and into a garagey area of the hotel.  He taps his TL in a few places and unlocks one of the little car things, which he hops in the front seat of.

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She can probably figure out how to open a door and sit down. Seatbelt?

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It's not what she's used to but neither is it very hard to figure out; it clips in the middle of her chest.  Lucero adjusts his at the shoulders before getting the motor going and throwing an "All good?" over his shoulder.

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"I think so."

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He checks and heads off once he's satisfied.

Outside, dawn is in the process of breaking but isn't quite there yet.  There's apparently a separate road for 'light vehicles', which varies from 'not that different from a regular road, just proportioned differently' to 'significantly more like a park trail than a city street'.

 

A ways into one of the parkier bits, there's... a smell.  Just a hint of one.

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Ew? Was there a traffic accident?

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Doesn't seem like it.  They see a handful of other people around but there's not really what could be called traffic.

It gets stronger as they go along.  Lucero seems unbothered.

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She didn't just get her period, though she has to consider it for a second to be sure. God this is so awkward especially in Not Even Spanish. "Uh, I smell blood? Is someone - blood?" If there had to be a universe that spoke not-quite some Earth language why couldn't it have been English.

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He's facing away from her on a moving open-top vehicle so it's kind of hard to make out his response, but she catches, " - probably a fountain!  [Something something], everything's fine.  Everyone is good."

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"I don't know the [something something] words?"

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He slows down, but not before an actual fountain of blood comes into view.  "- It's for healing."

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Bella lapses into English in alarm so probably he won't be offended when she says "holy fucking shit is that a BLOOD FOUNTAIN".

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"...I don't know the words?"

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"Uh - disculpe -" Why do they have a motherfucking blood fountain. "Earth does not have this????"

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He stops and unbuckles so he can turn around.  "It's for healing," he repeats.  It's christblood, the blood of Christ Mirkes.  If Earth doesn't have a christ with healing blood it makes sense you would not have these."

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"It's not only his blood.  Other people can add to it and then that becomes healing as well.  According to very complicated - math."

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"I am not sure I remember the word healing right???"

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"If a person is sick," fake cough-cough, "or hurt - ay! - it makes them not."

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"Do you need to be healed of anything?"

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"I don't think so."

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He nods. 

 

"... Should I keep driving?"

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"Can you drive farther from the fountain, I do not like the smell."

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"Yes."  He buckles up and does a two-point turn and gets them on a set of light roads that avoids the fountain, pulling over to reference his device at one point.

It's only a few minutes before he pulls into a plaza and up to an overhung parking area.  Depending on Bella's sense of direction she might notice that the fountain is probably not far behind these buildings, but she can't smell it from here.

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