It gives me a much clearer mental image of her.

> Hmmmm... Interesting. Now I want to go look at my movie collection and see how many can pass that test.

Personally, I think all aspiring fiction writers should have it tattooed on their foreheads. Even I wind up breaking The Rule on occasion, and while there have been valid reasons for doing so (tales of male bonding are kind of hard to reconcile with its conditions), there are a number of other instances in which I've simply been guilty of lazy storytelling, much like the writers who don't consciously seek to exclude characters of color from their casts, but never think to include them, either.

> And will they be fully clothed?

Actually, yes, even though I'm currently imagining that the scene involves Sydney trying to talk Bettie into adopting a superheroine identity, complete with costume (I'm not seeing her pleas succeeding at the moment, though).

> It's an interesting question... I never thought about doing anything like that. She might naturally be curious about it if Bettie's going through it, though.

For Bettie, it's about making as much of a clean break from her past as she can, since the England she grew up in is literally less real now than the land of Faerie is to her, and because she can't bear to go back there and try to find some vestiges of the familiar in a place that's changed so much since it was last her home, she's decided to simply make America her new home. Ironically enough, the fact that America is even less recognizable to her than modern-day England makes it easier for her to adjust to, in what I suppose might amount to a geographic equivalent of the Uncanny Valley.