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    “We created it. But, biologically, it’s identical to any other. I have the same need for sleep, food, water.”

    “Created it, huh?” Ava leaned a shoulder against the doorframe. “Based on what?”

    “Input from our limited data on earth. We developed a cache of features and arranged them.”

    “Ah, like create a Sim.” Ava nodded. At Beatrice’s blank look, she said, “It’s an earth game. We’ll play sometime. And, um, you know. You guys did a great job. At arranging.”

    “Thank you.” Beatrice blinked. “It was designed to be aesthetically pleasing.”

    “So you’re hot on purpose.” She blew out a long breath. “Honestly, thank God. That’s kind of relieving. I was worried I was—”

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    Beatrice is an alien researcher looking for information on earth. Ava, as it turns out, has a lot to teach her.

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    04 Apr 2023

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    “Don’t forget the fortune cookies,” she says unnecessarily.

    Bea is already carrying them over, having freed them from their plastic prisons. She hides them in her hand and moves her hands behind her back. Ava sees the muscles of her biceps flex as she moves them from hand to hand, mixing them up.

    Ava pokes her tongue out of her mouth and squints. After a second, she points to the right hand. Bea hands her the fortune cookie she’s holding and sits back down, cradling her own fortune cookie.

    Ava doesn’t wait for any kind of ceremony. She breaks her fortune cookie in half and pulls the fortune out, putting it facedown. She eats one half of the cookie first, for luck. Her mom always did it and Ava doesn’t remember a lot, but she remembers that most of mom’s fortunes came true, so it must have worked.

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    19 Mar 2023

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    Sister Beatrice likes complicated mathematical formulas, sci-fi novels, and routine. Then Ava Silva arrives at Santa Areala Academy for Girls like a shock of rain on a hot summer day.

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    15 Mar 2023

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    Beatrice has been very good with keeping her distance and maintaining boundaries and it's fine. Honestly, it's fine.
    Until Ava books a weekend getaway. In the middle of the woods. During a blizzard.

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    12 Mar 2023

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    Miss Silva sighs, dramatic and put-upon. “Alright. I suppose I wouldn’t want you to lose your stripes for the grievous crime of using my name. But if you can’t call me Ava, can you do something else for me?”

    Beatrice nods, even though it’s dangerous, even though Miss Silva could ask her for anything.

    Perhaps she nods because Miss Silva could ask her for anything.

    “Can you think of me as Ava, just in your head?” Miss Silva requests. “Even if you never say it.”

    Beatrice considers this. A truly honourable person wouldn’t agree; decorum should govern the thought as well as the action. But Beatrice is already expected to tell Miss Silva no so often that it gets harder every time, and surely this is a small enough concession that no real harm can come of it.

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    Or, Ava throws everything she has at chipping away Beatrice's propriety, and it only takes several years, a pirate ship, and being absolutely shameless for her to succeed.

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    09 Mar 2023