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Bella's on her way to kill a witch.
It usually hits Port Angeles, inspires arson, and then if allowed spins off a familiar that does the same in Forks. She's tracked it back far enough that she can reliably head it off before it makes that fellow set that apartment building on fire as long as she hops in the car without doing her hospital exit paperwork. If she's lucky, this time she's early enough to nab it before it lights up the bakery, too.
...The fuck is that? It's not usually there.
onceandforall
"It's... Not really here. What I call armasail is, or seems like, a tiny piece of something incomprehensibly vast. It acts almost as if all armasail everywhere, in every dimension, is the exact same fundamental particle spread over billions of trillions of manifestations. It'd take more science than you know to explain why we think that, but that's what makes it so impossibly durable - to destroy armasail, you have to destroy all the armasail, in all the dimensions, of which there are theoretically infinity."
onceandforall
"Interesting. I really want some, but if it won't go in the shield I probably can't keep it."
"I'll give a few squares of it to you as promised, but you can't make clothes out of it. it comes in little flexible squares, and you sew them into sealed pockets to armor things. You can't quite get 100% coverage without them just falling off."
And here is a two-inch square of armasail in another corner of the workship, perfectly, uniformly white and slipping out of her hands when she tries to pick it up. "Make a bowl with your hands," Nick suggests.
And here is a two-inch square of armasail in another corner of the workship, perfectly, uniformly white and slipping out of her hands when she tries to pick it up. "Make a bowl with your hands," Nick suggests.
onceandforall
She scoops it up and then transfers it as best she can to her right hand so she can put it in the shield, or try, anyway.
"Yes, it would have." He carefully puts it back where it was.
In the meantime: She can have a boatload of different scanners, fresh power sources compatible with them, and a deuterium/tritium cell for her duplicating shield.
In the meantime: She can have a boatload of different scanners, fresh power sources compatible with them, and a deuterium/tritium cell for her duplicating shield.
"Would you mind filling my fuel rack with the deutritium cells? I can fly you wherever you want if I don't have to worry about sublight fuel. This ship is at least twice as fast as a jumbo jet in-atmosphere. And the next time you fight a witch, I can point all my scanners at it."
onceandforall
"You wanna go hunt down Day One Evening, see if we can find her before she hits Spokane?" asks Bella, pulling out a few cells.
"Sure, why not. Help yourself to whatever's in the kitchen, I'll be flying to Spokane - I found maps on Google."
Unless she looks out the window, flying to Spokane will feel like nothing at all.
Unless she looks out the window, flying to Spokane will feel like nothing at all.
By the time she gets to it, they're above the clouds. Clouds pass bewilderingly fast and the distant landscape creeps by a lot less slowly than one might expect. If she's every been in a plane, this is noticeably faster. In fifteen minutes, they're over Spokane.
Nick says, "Oops. It seems like the local media is confused by my ship."
Nick says, "Oops. It seems like the local media is confused by my ship."
onceandforall
"Were you expecting otherwise? They'll reset in a month or whenever I roll it back. As long as they can't hurt you or kill me we're okay."
"I hadn't thought about it, honestly. Well, we're over Spokane and the hull sensors don't detect anything weird... How do you usually find a witch?"
onceandforall
"Depends on its point in the lifecycle. I'm not sure if this one isn't hatched before the point I usually nab it or if it's just biding its time."
"Should I set you down on a building or something? I'll give you a communicator so we can still talk, the scanner's not quite smart enough for that."
And so he does. His ship then visits several other buildings to distract from her current location, then resumes hovering over central Spokane, sensors ready.
"Let me know when you find one and we'll see if I can find them."
"Let me know when you find one and we'll see if I can find them."
onceandforall
"Sure."
She takes out her notes on Day One Evening and her movements. She then starts leaping around quite brazenly building to building in a search pattern.
She takes out her notes on Day One Evening and her movements. She then starts leaping around quite brazenly building to building in a search pattern.
A lot of people notice her and point excitedly and take pictures. The police order her to come down (ha).
onceandforall
Yeah, she's been through this song and dance before and she stopped caring about that sort of thing during a standard reset when she's not trying to perfect a whole run a subjective year ago. She doesn't come down.
It's going to take her a while to find what she's looking for, even using her soul gem to dowse. But eventually she locates Day One Evening in a suburb.
"Found her. Do you see anything?"
It's going to take her a while to find what she's looking for, even using her soul gem to dowse. But eventually she locates Day One Evening in a suburb.
"Found her. Do you see anything?"
The ship takes a few moments to relocate over the suburb.
"Nothing. I can't tell those houses apart from any other houses in any way, shape, or form. Your country's army is sending some jets, though. They'll be here in, oh, three hours."
"Nothing. I can't tell those houses apart from any other houses in any way, shape, or form. Your country's army is sending some jets, though. They'll be here in, oh, three hours."
onceandforall
"I might wanna spend the rest of this reset in space hanging out with you talking physics," she remarks. "Does that sound fun? I'm gonna go kill this witch."