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Isabella Marie Swan ✴ "Stella" ([personal profile] self_composed) wrote2012-10-01 07:09 pm

here goes

Bella schedules an appointment at Stanford. She breezes through sixteen hours of motorcycle class, mostly by demonstrating that the instructor is redundant and wouldn't he rather teach her exotic motorcycle tricks and then just mark her as passing the course? She plays in a soccer game against a Port Angeles high school and wins. She starts driving her bike to school, and she names it Tegu after a lizard of similar coloring, because it needed a name.

On Friday evening she's due to fly out, crash in a Stanford grad student's house overnight, interview on Saturday, and fly home that evening. She bikes for the airport, black leather gold-studded saddlebags over Tegu's back wheel carrying her luggage.
edgeofyourseat: Smiling, affectionate or amused. (⑶ your wish is my command)

[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, that's not gonna happen.]

Or at least, he can't imagine how.
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[I love you,] Alice says happily.
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, which one is it?] he asks reasonably, and indulges in idle speculation about a Bella-compass power.
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
He circles.

[Yup! Got it!]

Just for fun, he hovers outside her window.
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
He giggles.

[Hi!] he says, waving.

[So, about the breathing thing. What if I want to make it so I don't need to breathe, but I can still feel like I need to breathe?]
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mmm,] he says, and contemplates this with the help of his pentagonal understanding of the human body. [Yeah, that sounds... well, not quite.]

He'd much rather have it work more like the healing power: make a change that always works, except while he is telling it not to. So he can safely enjoy, say, drowning, and as soon as he stops holding off the magical gas exchange, his lungs become irrelevant again; but for things like this flight, he won't be constantly distracted by the thinness of the air.
Edited 2012-10-02 22:50 (UTC)
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Square,] he says succinctly. [It's not like I'm gonna take up drowning as a hobby.]
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, but the effects of not having enough oxygen are actually a part of the experience,] he argues. [Why fake it when I don't have to?]

Also, there is no way on Earth he would keep to a routine anywhere near that regular. But that's kind of beside the point.
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not actually gonna kill me, though.] Or at least the risk of it doing so is acceptably low. [So I can just fix it later.]
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unconscious as distinct from sleeping, because that could get awkward fast.]
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[personal profile] edgeofyourseat 2012-10-02 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, they are actually not that similar,] says Alice.

He double-checks the power, holding the whole thing in his head to see if it feels like he missed anything. Nope. Okay.

A hexagon disappears from his necklace, and he experimentally holds his breath.

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