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I have to at least try. So I press where Celeste showed me to press.
It takes a minute or so, but then the lights swirling above the tablet form into a face, and that face is speaking to me.
“Halli!”
I smile so wide it feels like this might be my first real smile since I took over this body.
“Hi, Daniel! How are you?” I say it as warmly, as personally as I can. Please, secretly know it’s me.
“Splendid,” he answers, as only a British guy can get away with. “Is Audie there with you?”
I wish he hadn’t said my name, but I can’t shush him without drawing further attention to it.
“Um, not right now,” I say. “Listen, I just have a quick question for you.”
“And I have one for you,” he says. “Are you coming to my father’s party?”
His father’s 50th birthday party. While back in my world
