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.

Comments

[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?"

[pythbox]

"Hi!" says Minnie.

[poeticterms]

"Hello, Minnie," says Jarvis.

[cross_and_bow]

Bella smiles. "My phone's not particularly fancy, but some people nowadays have phones that cross with books a little bit almost like the machines that go on the internet," she says to Minnie.

[pythbox]

"I've seen those," she says, nodding.

[cross_and_bow]

"You seem like a nice person. I really don't understand why you'd kill people, even if you've been stuck in a really annoying situation for a very long time," Bella says to Minnie.