Most Likely A Refuge

[whatamithinking]

It was probably safe.

The bar was...unusually reticent, in the lower layers of her mind (and she hadn't pried further; she wasn't sure if she'd be noticed; she wasn't sure if offending would get her kicked out, and regardless of whether it was actually safe it was safer than anywhere else she'd been for the past...three years?) so she couldn't be sure this place wasn't really a trap of some kind, but the higher layers gave a plausible explanation that didn't involve being a trap, and whatever else it was warm and dry and had food. Her guard was probably a full 25% down. Positively trusting, these days.

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[onceandforall]

"How much does that help?"

[whatamithinking]

"Well, I haven't had a repeat of that particular incident, but it was a bit of a one-off even beforehand, so who knows."

[onceandforall]

Nod.

The waltz Bar is playing for them comes to an end.

[whatamithinking]

Hug, and then interrogating Bar for archaeological purposes.

[onceandforall]

Bar is as helpful as she can be.

[whatamithinking]

"...I can get some of them in Hebrew," she reports. "Not any of the ones that contain large quantities of non-scriptural words."

[onceandforall]

"Interesting."

[whatamithinking]

"The ones I can perceive are all ones I can read pretty well anyways, so there's that. If there's much of anything in a text I'd find really tricky the whole thing get's translated, is what it looks like to me."

[onceandforall]

"What counts as a single text, I wonder, if you got a book of poems and some were ones you knew...?"

[whatamithinking]

"I don't so much know discrete poems. I know chunks from Proverbs and the Song of Songs and stuff like that."

[onceandforall]

"Then we cannot readily experiment, alas."

[whatamithinking]

"Alas. On the other hand, I don't exactly take French class seriously but I do care about my grades enough to pretty much learn the material, and there's been some songs on the curriculum. Caaan I see a, um, songbook that has Lark, At the Point of Avignon, and, um, the one that goes At the clear spring, as I strolled by, I found the water so beautiful, that I bathed myself."

[alicornucopia]

Bar provides!

[whatamithinking]

"I assume you're getting the whole thing in English but I do see those three songs in French, and not the rest."

[onceandforall]

"It's all English to me," nods Bella.

[whatamithinking]

"Well, that answers that question. Hooray for scholastic competence."

[onceandforall]

Giggle.

[whatamithinking]

The giggle is adorable! Edie thinks she will kiss it.

[onceandforall]

Eeee.

[whatamithinking]

...And then looks around, because it occurs to her that they've been completely ignoring her alt. Which, under the circumstances, not unreasonable, but.

Her alt is over in a corner booth, being as unobtrusive as possible and reading something borrowed from Bar.

[onceandforall]

Bella giggles a little bit.

[whatamithinking]

"For, uh, purposes of studying differences between alternate universes, I should probably mention I'm straight," the other Edie says, eyes still firmly on her book.

[onceandforall]

"Good for you."

[whatamithinking]

"...I mean, in the absence of any other alts to learn things from, it is potentially useful information on how we vary," Cerebella admits.

[onceandforall]

"Yes, yes."