i'm just that fascinating i guess
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self_composedThe first day Bella spends out and about with her new who's-watching-me powers, she is rather alarmed.
Maybe she's just mistaken about how much time people spend looking at reasonably pretty eighteen-year-old girls. She kills a pentagon to try it on a nearby control - who's looking at that girl over there?
Fewer people. Fewer people are looking at that random girl, and less intently. They're looking at her familiarly - they know her - or casually - they're checking her out.
[I have a spy problem,] Bella says. She makes a faintly exaggerated show of snapping her fingers in frustration and turning around. She's going back to her room to get a mirror and bobby pins and barettes, so she can spy back on the pretense of checking her hair, without making it overwhelmingly obvious that she knows what's going on.
Maybe she's just mistaken about how much time people spend looking at reasonably pretty eighteen-year-old girls. She kills a pentagon to try it on a nearby control - who's looking at that girl over there?
Fewer people. Fewer people are looking at that random girl, and less intently. They're looking at her familiarly - they know her - or casually - they're checking her out.
[I have a spy problem,] Bella says. She makes a faintly exaggerated show of snapping her fingers in frustration and turning around. She's going back to her room to get a mirror and bobby pins and barettes, so she can spy back on the pretense of checking her hair, without making it overwhelmingly obvious that she knows what's going on.
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Date: 2012-11-01 11:16 pm (UTC)Also, he is kind of really distracted by Bella saying the words I'd want you dead. That gives him all kinds of lovely feelings.
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Date: 2012-11-01 11:21 pm (UTC)[I'm not yet certain I can't change it. Or mitigate the downside potential, or cut the chances,] she says instead.
Bella is getting the creeping suspicion that Chris's niece isn't just Chris's niece. Lazarus knows enough to make him nervous, and what he knows isn't much.
She emails Bridget.
She'll assume that Bridget knows there's only one mutually salient "her" with a niece worth asking about.
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Date: 2012-11-01 11:33 pm (UTC)He finds that he doesn't like thinking about the idea. Even the vague proto-thoughts that he forms concerning what she might possibly do are making him uneasy.
So he shrugs and starts baking some cookies.
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Date: 2012-11-01 11:36 pm (UTC)Bridget gets a similar email, a few minutes later.
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Date: 2012-11-01 11:53 pm (UTC)She spends a pentagon. She doesn't know if his email is being watched, but whoever her nemesis might be can hire a dozen people to spy on her on campus; they can hire one decent cracker.
[Boo.]
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Date: 2012-11-01 11:57 pm (UTC)[What. Why, and also how.]
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Date: 2012-11-02 01:24 am (UTC)There's a beat of silence, and then he asks, [How much was I right about?]
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