and we are conscious of a long town history

[cross_and_bow]

Prom arrives.

Bella wears her indigo dress and her indigo heels with their straps that go all the way up her calves, and she nukes Sherlock some breakfast, and she waits.

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[cross_and_bow]

"I don't either," admits Bella. The ghost books don't have how-tos from the ghost's perspective. "Maybe we can figure it out, okay?"

[Giles, you awake?]

[pythbox]

Minnie looks dubious, and flickers again.

[Yes?]

[cross_and_bow]

[I need to give the ghost instructions on how to move on. Help?]

"Would it help if you knew what happened to the guy who killed you?" Bella tries. "If I looked him up and said 'yes, he's dead' or 'he's in this nursing home' or - whatever?"

[pythbox]

[Of course,] says Giles.

"...yes," says Minnie. "Yes! Tell me!"

[cross_and_bow]

[Can you look up the dude who killed her, see what became of him, in the newspapers?]

And then she asks Jarvis the same thing, giving him all the details, and substituting "on the internet" for "in the newspapers".

"I'm asking some of my friends to help find out, now," Bella tells Minnie. "I'm telepathic so I can do that from right here."

[pythbox]

"Lucky you," grumbles Minnie, crossing her arms again.

[cross_and_bow]

"I'm just explaining that when they get the answers I won't have gone anywhere but that doesn't mean I'm making it up. I want to tell you the truth," Bella says placatingly.

[pythbox]

"Ugh," she says, but she doesn't do anything overtly hostile, or go anywhere.

Giles and Jarvis are quiet for a few minutes.

[cross_and_bow]

Jarvis ought to be faster than Giles for any number of reasons; she pokes him again first. [Any luck?]

[poeticterms]

[Not so far,] he says. [I haven't restored all my old connections yet. The Internet isn't quite such an open book to me as I'm used to.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Okay.] [Giles?]

"One of my friends is looking on the internet, and one of them is checking newspapers," she reports to Minnie.

[pythbox]

"What is the internet?" she asks, intrigued.

[Still looking,] Giles reports.

[cross_and_bow]

"It's - a lot of machines that act sort of like books crossed with phones and know how to talk to each other," Bella summarizes. "If you have a book-phone-thing you can find information that's on all the other book-phone-things."

[pythbox]

Minnie seems to find this explanation giggle-worthy.

[cross_and_bow]

"It's pretty cool," Bella says. "And useful for all kinds of things."

[pythbox]

"And people's phones these days," she says with a sigh of envy.

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah, phones are neat!" says Bella. "Are you solid enough to hold stuff - d'you wanna see mine?"

[pythbox]

"If I even try to touch it, it'll die," she says regretfully. "But you could show me!"

[cross_and_bow]

"Okay," says Bella, and she gets out her phone, and says to Jarvis, [Are you good enough at multitasking to not be slowed down if I call you by way of showing the Prom Ghost my phone?]

[pythbox]

Prom Ghost claps with glee.

[poeticterms]

[Entirely,] says Jarvis.

[cross_and_bow]

"I'll call my friend who's looking on the Internet for stuff," Bella suggests, and she scrolls through her contacts and hits call and then sets it to speakerphone.

[poeticterms]

"Hello," says Jarvis.

[pythbox]

Minnie beams.

[cross_and_bow]

"Hi, Jarvis," says Bella. "This is Minnie. I wonder if you'll be able to hear her through the phone? Minnie, you want to say hi?"