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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
"Yes, that's why I was willing to kill them if I had to, and did kill a couple, but the remainder do not require it."
wormcan
"I couldn't tell you what happens. Capes with kill orders don't usually get brought in. But if they get sent to the Birdcage, I'd be more worried about the rest of the Birdcage."
imeanforever
"I am worried about the rest of the Birdcage, but the four people I have in my custody right now are the ones who'd be entering the situation with ordered constraints on their behavior, unless you're saying that the correct way to satisfy my ethics is to tell the Siberian that she may use her powers as needed."
wormcan
This would indeed not be the correct way to do much of anything.
"The four people in your custody are some of the worst criminals on the planet. Whoever's in charge of them permanently is going to be legally prohibited from treating them in any way even approaching what they deserve. Constraints on their behavior are a tiny detail compared to four-digit body counts."
"The four people in your custody are some of the worst criminals on the planet. Whoever's in charge of them permanently is going to be legally prohibited from treating them in any way even approaching what they deserve. Constraints on their behavior are a tiny detail compared to four-digit body counts."
imeanforever
This is a stupid argument.
"The vans will not be required. I'll transport them."
She hangs up on the PRT person. "How long can you four go without food?"
wormcan
"Weeks, weeks, years, forever." Bonesaw points to Shatterbird, herself, Mannequin, and the Siberian in turn.
imeanforever
That'll do. Although she may need to separately inquire specifically about the Siberian's other body.
Promise gates to her nicely flattened Valley Continent tree. "Don't damage anything. When I finish my sentence, go in that direction but don't leave the tree or behave in such a way as to be detectable from outside of it." She puts wood down over her bookshelf again.
The Siberian, she doesn't enforce this on yet.
"What's your range?" she asks when the other three are through.
Promise gates to her nicely flattened Valley Continent tree. "Don't damage anything. When I finish my sentence, go in that direction but don't leave the tree or behave in such a way as to be detectable from outside of it." She puts wood down over her bookshelf again.
The Siberian, she doesn't enforce this on yet.
"What's your range?" she asks when the other three are through.
wormcan
"A few miles."
Projection across gates hasn't exactly been tested, but the Valley Continent is further than miles from Captain's Hill.
Projection across gates hasn't exactly been tested, but the Valley Continent is further than miles from Captain's Hill.
wormcan
"I can't. Perception and reaction times get worse, and eventually I can't move more."
imeanforever
"...If I turn you over to the Protectorate in this body do you expect to be able to keep up with yourself unproblematically?"
imeanforever
"What will happen if you are transported by other forces outside your range?"
wormcan
"Historically, this body disappears and reappears closer to the other one. I have never been prevented from doing that. If I were, it would probably erode my ability to use either one."
imeanforever
"...Okay. How safe and stable is your other body's condition now?"
wormcan
"No one knows to look for it. It'll starve eventually but is otherwise safe."
wormcan
"Weeks."
She tells the location completely and honestly. (Following directions to the unstoppable cannibalistic serial killer's house: a reasonable idea under the circumstances.)
She tells the location completely and honestly. (Following directions to the unstoppable cannibalistic serial killer's house: a reasonable idea under the circumstances.)
imeanforever
"Try going through the gate. If anything compromising your functionality starts to happen, come back."
wormcan
The Siberian goes through the space where the gate is. What she doesn't do is go through the gate. She stops when she's across the line.
imeanforever
"Hmm -" Promise picks up the nearest unimportant-looking object and tosses it through where the gate used to be.
wormcan
The object disappears, presumably having urgent unimportant object activities in Fairyland.