counterfeit

[onceandforall]

This. This is a good bar.

She does not mind taking counterfeit currency and she sells everything.

Bella is going to exploit the fuck out of that but first she is eating really, really good pad thai and finally talking to a person who is a) interesting b) not someone she has already talked to a lot in the last... several years. Lovely friendly bar who makes a lovely delicious pad thai! Bella will have to try opening that door at that moment again in the past.

Comments

[onceandforall]

"Oh dear. ...Where do the artifacts come from?"

[whatamithinking]

"Every now and then a set or a lone one turns up from some kind of ruins or something. No one really knows where they come from originally."

[onceandforall]

"Weird. ...What happened to the Black Opal Guardian?"

[whatamithinking]

"We didn't have to kill her. They arrested her. She let me do some mind magic to prove she wasn't working for the Obsidian Magus willingly, so I'm going to testify on her behalf at the trial."

[onceandforall]

"It's admissible in court and everything?"

[whatamithinking]

"If it's ever learned I magically perjured myself under oath the consequences are really, really nasty. But yes, the result of information-gathering magical girl spells, consensual application of mindreading counted therein, have been admissible as witness testimony since 2005."

[onceandforall]

"...What year is it by you?"

[whatamithinking]

"2017."

[onceandforall]

"My loop's in 2005."

[whatamithinking]

"Huh. Well, it's not that surprising that Milliways can pull people from different years."

[onceandforall]

"Not at all, I knew that, I just hadn't realized you were close but not that close."

[whatamithinking]

"I'm trying to remember 2005 but most of what I can recall isn't directly relatable to the year."

[onceandforall]

"And I mean, you would have been six, which is a little weird all by itself."

[whatamithinking]

"Not that I imagine you need the reminder but if you have a six-year-old me in your world don't flirt with her."

[onceandforall]

"I won't. If you have a thirty-year old me in yours... go for it if you feel like it, I guess?"

[whatamithinking]

"Pfff. Maybe when I'm older."

[onceandforall]

"Entirely fair."

[whatamithinking]

"Given what I know of you, if there's a thirty-year-old version of you in my world I've probably heard of her. Just not as Bella, and she wouldn't necessarily have anything to do with jewels."

[onceandforall]

"I wasn't gonna say it... but yeah I was thinking that."

[whatamithinking]

"Well, of course."

[onceandforall]

Giggle. "I am a motivated and power-hungry beastie."

[whatamithinking]

"Power to help people is the best thing. If your hypothetical alt hasn't heard of me by the time I'm thirty I'll be disappointed in myself."

[onceandforall]

"Fighting villains and, you said social activism, right, what kind?"

[whatamithinking]

"Most kinds, if I can help it. I'm most personally perturbed by LGBTQA-etc. issues for the obvious reasons, and antisemitism because I'm Jewish, but that doesn't mean that other issues aren't just as important. I want to try organizing magical girl activists involved with individual issues into an intersectional organization that seeks across-the-board improvement of treatment of people who aren't white male Protestant etcetera."

[onceandforall]

"What are the added bonuses of having magical girls in particular work on it? Are you, like, role models with action figures who can get on Sesame Street, or are there people with spells that apply really well to some kind of direct action...?"