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The armasail refuses to go into the shield.

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"Well, nothing doing, you were right. Damn, would have been nice."

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"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.
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All of these get "dipped" in the shield.

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"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."

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"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.

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"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.
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She looks out the window.

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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."
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"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."

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"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?"

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"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."

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"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."

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"Yes to both."

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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."
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"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.
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A lot of people notice her and point excitedly and take pictures. The police order her to come down (ha).

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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?"
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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."
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"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."

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"I'm going to work on finding D-fuel and refining it starting tomorrow, but once that's done, sure thing."

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"Cool. Back in a second."





It literally takes her a second.
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"Woah, okay, that's weird. There was a burst of Schetzenfeld bosons, and you disappeared for a second. Did the witch do that?"

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"Depends on what you saw. That was either me going into the witch's little magical habitat, or me pausing time."

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"Could you pause again so I can see if the bosons were you or the witch?"

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