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Tree branch: check. Assorted lightweight seed-bearing fruits and nuts: check. Other seeds: check. Water bottle, for when she has to veer away from the river: check.
Better not linger in her starting place too much longer. Yellow's faster than her and may have already come home to a wreck. Thorn might have a habit of checking up on the place, even, just in case. She's invisible, inaudible, unsmellable - that won't help if he sends someone thorough. Or comes in person.
She sets out.
She's been flying for about thirty minutes after her shopping trip when she falls through a tear and squeaks inaudibly and lands in the middle of -
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imeanforever
imeanforever
"Does the tinker have anything set up that might inconvenience me?"
wormcan
"Of course."
Doesn't this person have any respect for Tinkers? How is that even a question.
Doesn't this person have any respect for Tinkers? How is that even a question.
wormcan
"Hologram bombs. Cameras recording how you operate. Getting his slightly less useless partner to attack you."
imeanforever
Well, that's a better answer than 'they'll explode if they don't'.
"How long will it take to deactivate all your bombs?"
"How long will it take to deactivate all your bombs?"
imeanforever
"If there were a well-informed PRT agent here, what would they want me to tell you to do next?"
wormcan
"Turn myself in. Help arrest those losers. Show them where my workshop is and deactivate the traps. Get the bombs out of the hostages' heads. Tell them what Oni Lee's doing right now. Charge against Empire Eighty-Eight and go out in a blaze of explosive glory they can pretend they didn't know about. I don't know."
imeanforever
"How many hostages are there? Will the bombs explode if you don't make them do so?"
imeanforever
"If I bring you back to the PRT, they will send you to prison. I could also try to keep you. Do you have a preference?"
wormcan
"Second thing."
She just bombed a city. That's a Birdcaging. And outsmarting the disembodied voice eventually is inevitable.
She just bombed a city. That's a Birdcaging. And outsmarting the disembodied voice eventually is inevitable.
imeanforever
"Is there a place I could send you to wait for me where no one else would find you in at least the next hour or two?"
wormcan
"Yes." She gives the location of an ABB formerly-safe house that should be unoccupied.
imeanforever
"Will anything unpleasant happen to me if I go meet you there later?"