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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
He looks thoughtful for a long moment.
"Heh. I just realized that I trust a teenage girl more than most governments. Sure, you can come."
"Heh. I just realized that I trust a teenage girl more than most governments. Sure, you can come."
onceandforall
"Cool. We don't have casual space travel and I'm nowhere near being able to assemble it myself inside a month."
"I'll probably want you to duplicate things as long as you're on board anyway. But before we leave you should get some local food and meet me for pickup later. I only had a week's worth in the kitchen when I arrived and I'm down to a couple days now. Hydroponics don't take well to dimensional jumps. Get some meat if you can, I like meat."
"Makes sense. In that case, we can leave as soon as I finish scanning Antarctica, maybe another three hours."
"I just have one pressure suit, but I can set the reshaper to make another if you have something with rubber and pure-ish carbon in your shield."
onceandforall
"I might have rubber. I'm not actually clear on what kinds of objects are and are not genuine rubber." For carbon, apparently she has a diamond.
"Un-geniuine rubber should be fine as long as it behaves rubberishly. Unfortunately, diamonds are not actually the right form of carbon to make carbon plate. I might try burning bread and filtering what's left, but I don't want any fires on my ship. I could make you a metal pressure suit instead, if you don't mind massing over four hundred pounds."
onceandforall
"I can handle four hundred pounds. I'm very strong these days." She has an eraser, for rubber. "Will pencil graphite do?"
"Googling... Hmm, yes, that should work. But try not to spread wood shells everywhere, if you can avoid it."
"Yeah, but that seems tedious. I'll extract one graphite stick, let you duplicate that a few times, and combine the result into a larger contiguous object so you don't have to duplicate it for quite as long."
"It's true. There's just something beautiful about a well-designed machine. That's why I offered to invent things for you, you know."
He nods calmly. "It's nice to be useful to someone who is also useful to you. I've never been what you'd call a friendly person. Mutual benefit is a close relative of friendship, though."
onceandforall
"I'd rather not be attached to you on a personal level, considering you're gonna disappear and I'll never see you again. To mutual benefit." She mimes a toasting gesture.
He snaps the metal eraser-holder off and applies two quick swipes of the plasma cutter. Charred wood falls away in four pieces and he hands her the bared graphite.
onceandforall
She puts it in the shield once and takes it out a few times.
"Maybe join it up long-ways so it's not easy to snap," she suggests.
"Maybe join it up long-ways so it's not easy to snap," she suggests.