"I wonder what resolution this printed one would be, and if the digital one at the same resolution would be the same."

"I can look up what DPI my printer does and work out the resolution, then set my phone to do that resolution or less, print it out so there's no loss of resolution?"

She smiles appreciatively at him. "Sounds like a lovely idea."

He does that! Takes a selfie, puts it on his computer, prints it off!

"Here you are," he says, handing Sadde the photo.

Then he starts it transferring to his phone, for bluetooth.

"Should I destroy this one first?"

"The other paper copy?" he asks. "Oh – good point. And, uh, it'd be good to see what level of destruction counts as being gone for a physical copy."

"Should I start ripping it?"

"Or maybe scribble over it, or burn it..."

"Rip first, then try scribbling then try burning?" He shrugs. "Or scribble then rip, I guess, might be easier in that order."

He offers her a pen.

She starts scribbling over his body, bottom to top.

When she gets to his face the sway starts getting considerably weaker.

"That's definitely doing something!" he says. "Going over the face is making it drop, quite a lot."

She stops. "Should I finish scribbling and tear a different one?"

"Yeah, unless it doesn't seem to take it all the way in which case try ripping it then, I think."

She finishes scribbling, and by then the sway is almost, but not completely, gone.

Theo squints at her a bit. "Not totally gone."

"Okay, maybe set this on fire and try another one? Don't wanna mix different methods of destruction before we test them individually."

"Yeah," he agrees. "I'll do it?"

He holds out a hand for the photo.

Here he goes.

He catches it on fire on the stove.

Woo. Pyromania.

And as expected the sway goes away.

"Okay, so maybe we should first print the same thing several times and then test different methods of destruction."

Theo nods and does so! Five copies is probably enough for now.

"What should we try? Should we do scribbling again?"

"Yeah, maybe start with the face in case that holds most of the sway or something? It dropped a lot last time at the end when you did that."

"Should I scribble from different starting places? How much should I rip the other one? Should I use fire? What other methods should we use?"

"Rip in half first, I think, then try ripping into gradually smaller pieces – I can print more copies off when we need them – and for the scribbling, I'd say wait until we find the results for scribbling over my face but yeah probably try visible skin, then try covering just my outline, things like that?"

He hands her one of the images. He's giving it to her to deface, so it's not like he cares much to get it back intact.