a city and a mint who sleep very little between them

[self_composed]

Bella bikes to the airport on Friday. She gets a little reading done on her flight, then sleeps-on-purpose through the remainder of the trip, waking up precisely when the plane touches down. One nice bonus that she didn't even explicitly build into the power is that she can sleep at will in virtually any position; she doesn't have to get comfy if that's not convenient.

She steps off the plane, backpack full of her things over her shoulders, and stalks into the halls of LaGuardia, eyes peeled for Libby.

Comments

[prima_sequentem]

"I don't need German," she says. "And I already know an interpreter who knows about magic and speaks Russian. But you might be more convenient than Lazarus now and then."

[self_composed]

[You do translation work for Libby?] Bella asks Lazarus quizzically. That's news to her.

"Cool," she says.

[nonbird]

[No I don't,] says Lazarus. [I mean, I do translation work, but not for Libby.]

[self_composed]

[Are you sure?]

[nonbird]

[I think I would've noticed.]

[self_composed]

Bella passes along the suggestive segment of conversation. [Perhaps she just expects that you'd take the work if she asked?]

"How do you go about finding ingots? Do they appear on your globe too?" Bella asks.

[nonbird]

[Probably,] he agrees. [I am an interpreter, that much is true.]

[prima_sequentem]

"I think I'll leave that an open question for now."

[self_composed]

Bella's going to make her own globe when she gets home.

"Of course you will," she sighs.

[prima_sequentem]

"You're not very patient, are you."

[self_composed]

"Nope. I am not."

[prima_sequentem]

"That's a little inconvenient."

[self_composed]

"For whom?"

[prima_sequentem]

"Both of us, really. If you were very patient, I could just tell you that if you hang around me long enough, you'll pick up plenty of secrets, and that would be that."

[self_composed]

"Even if I were very patient, I might not believe you if you told me that," Bella points out.

[prima_sequentem]

"If you were very patient, you might be willing to wait and see."

[self_composed]

"I'm not seeing it," Bella says. "I don't think Bellas come in 'patient'."

[prima_sequentem]

"Like I said," says Libby. "Inconvenient."

[self_composed]

"I'm sure my other scintillating qualities make up for it, though," Bella says earnestly.

[prima_sequentem]

"Oh, don't get me wrong, I think you're perfectly charming on a personal level."

[self_composed]

"And on a personal level, apart from all the irritating secrecy and so on, I think you're lovely company as well," Bella returns.

[prima_sequentem]

"Irritating but lovely. You know, I can't say I get that a lot."

[self_composed]

"No? I get called charming and impatient all the time."

[prima_sequentem]

"I am not surprised."

[self_composed]

"So you have a doctorate in math, right?" Bella asks, out of productive magic talk for the time being.