It's just a kit for doing cheek swabs, and they can get assistance. (The turnaround time is short, so Cean feels it's better to risk the first round of sampling not producing viable samples than to make people deal with potentially unnecessary procedures.)

Fib's dealt with cheek swabs back before he Awoke, so this should be manageable without help. If there's multiple swabs, the two of them consider whether having Sniper give a sample might be good as well, but even if the option is there they decide against for now. Neither of them are entirely that sosei-shita even have DNA in the first place. They haven't had the opportunity to check, and it'd be best to test that with some prior awareness rather than jumping on Ceanothus with no warning.

Once that sample-taking is done, they'll package it up and send it back with the delivery drone and get back to waiting.

There's kits for the entire party. Someone must have done a head count at some point.

Fair enough, but also Blue and Autumn are still back at the ATV anyway, and he's the only one they've talked about bargaining over an additional immortality for, so it's still just Fib's sample for now. If this works out and it seems like they have enough to offer to get all four of them set up (and the sosei-shita can benefit from this at all, since having them able to benefit from his Bondworks once he gave them some colorflame already seemed like a remarkable coincidence) then they can talk with Ceanothus about hashing out a bigger deal.

He can put his kit back in the robot when he's done and it will head off to the fortress.

The mirror he was handed earlier chimes like a small gong.

Ooh, he managed to forget that they do that ever since he started using them mostly as the backbone for the sosei-shita's internet. That's a nice sound.

He'll go ahead and take the mirror out of the pocket he slipped it into and see what's up.

The mirror ripples before showing an unfamiliar face.

“Your sample took. I have a clone growing for you, but it’s not going to be ready right away.”

Fib nods. "Fair enough. Any idea how long it takes? Also, there were four sample kits. Should I ask if Sniper, Autumn, and Blue want to see if it works for them as well? And, what kind of debt are we in for, whether it's just me or the four of us?"

“I can flush the tanks if I want to, there’s no debt. If we come to a deal I could imagine you being glad we started on this early. I sent kits for your party for similar reasons.”