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[provincialbelle]

Belle had been so grateful to Jane for all the help she had offered and all the lessons, but she felt that sometimes she began to pester her. After all that fuss and to-do with the portal, she'd found a ray of hope in the mess and was just waiting for the right time to pursue it. She'd felt sick for so long and then there'd been the body. Now, though, she was tired of huddling to herself and tired of putting things off.

She wanted to learn more about all the wondrous and mad and perfect things out there and if she didn't take a step out her front door, she was never going to find that. So, she ventured out to the lab when she knew that Fred worked there, knocking apprehensively on the door. "Miss Burkle? I'm Belle, Jane's student. Can I come in?"

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[walkswithheroes]

For a second, Fred had thought that maybe Belle would forget the part where she'd been snooping at someone else's notes.

"I've actually found a lot of them already," Fred admits, and she walks over to one of the work stations where she's found a collection of papers, "At least I think so. Though I think this one might actually be about food."

[provincialbelle]

She tipped her head to the side to inspect it, trying to make some sense out of it. In the end, all she can really make out is that it's probably coded to some kind of comprehension that she can't even begin to know. "Well, food is very important," she allowed.

[walkswithheroes]

"Not when you're tryin' to figure out what it'll take to make a portal that'll go exactly where you want it to," Fred replies, because it'll be one thing to get another one built at all, but making it go to the right place is another problem entirely.

That much is pretty clear from the last time someone tried a portal.

[provincialbelle]

"Well, no," she conceded, because that did seem the world's most inopportune moment to do something like that. "Maybe we can try and suggest that food comes after life-threatening portals," she said. "Can't you make it a lab-rule or something?" she asked, earnestly.