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]

"I've always been really big on notetaking. There's grocery list people and then there's diary people and then there's me."

[whatamithinking]

"It does not surprise me even a little bit to find another area where you're exceptional."

[onceandforall]

Grin.

"...I have no idea how detransforming as a puella magi will work if I don't simultaneously detransform as a non-Latin magical girl. I'm gonna find out."

The procedures are quite different, so it shouldn't be hard to just -

[maggie_of_the_owls]

--have a ring containing a purple gem appear on her hand, and her shield disappear. The rest of her outfit remains the same.

[onceandforall]

"Okay, so it's not just playing nice with my puella magi outfit as long as it's already there, it has adopted it as its own plus wrapping-paper-shiny." She puts her ring on (left hand, middle finger, same as her purple diamond fingernail mark) shrugs off her new magical powers too, and appears in jeans, snowboots, and parka. She takes off the parka and the boots.

[whatamithinking]

"I figured it probably had, but there was no guarantee." Detransformation!

[onceandforall]

Bella plops back onto the sofa. Next to Edie. Pauses a moment, then plops her head on her shoulder.

[whatamithinking]

Edie startles at the unexpected physical contact, then giggles and leans her own head against Bella's.

[onceandforall]

Giggle.

[whatamithinking]

This seems like an appropriate time to put an arm around Bella. Yes?

[onceandforall]

Yes. Bella snuggles up.

[whatamithinking]

Eee snuggles! Snuggles are not completely absent from Edie's life in general but cuddling your sister is very different from cuddling a cute non-relative with whom you are on a datelike thing.

[onceandforall]

Bella has gone a very long time indeed without snuggles. Snuggles are nice.

[whatamithinking]

Bella can have all the snuggles she wants!

[onceandforall]

Yay!

Because proceeding beyond snuggles seems to be kind of beyond her!

[whatamithinking]

Well, at this point, time is no object. But after enough time snuggling Edie is likely to figure out how to arrange for kissing to happen, given that Bella's head is in a position that would make it really awkward to try to lean over and peck her on the lips.

[onceandforall]

Bella's not inclined to make that difficult, if Edie wants.

[whatamithinking]

Okay, so she can--take her head off Bella's, and sort of nudge her head upward with her shoulder?

[onceandforall]

Bella is nudged thus.

[whatamithinking]

And--ah--

When they're at eye level and their faces are close together, it's possible she might freeze up a little.

[onceandforall]

...Bella gets the idea. Edie started and she can finish.

Kiss?

[whatamithinking]

Kiss! Not a very competent one, to start, but definitely kiss.

[onceandforall]

Incompetence all around. But well-meaning incompetence!

[whatamithinking]

If the kissing is equally incompetent on both sides maybe they won't even notice. Headtilt? People who are kissing in pictures usually have their heads at an angle, right?

[onceandforall]

Headtilt! That is convenient in the nose region.