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Bella was expecting to be slightly late to math class. This is not math class, but it seems like the sort of thing she ought to be later to math class in order to investigate. In she stalks, ready for something to jump out at her, wondering if she ought to pull a stake out of her bag.
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cross_and_bow
"Yes. This one's good too. I give it a nine out of ten. The Russian judge dinged you for inadequate eye contact, but don't let it get to you."
cross_and_bow
"Anyway, I've been meaning to ask, what cool things have you got in the thirtieth century besides apparently no vampires or magic and I'm going to guess also no demons?"
unmarred
"Clones. Uterine replicators. Jumpships that transit wormholes between star systems. A fascinating array of weapons. I don't know, what don't you have in yours?"
cross_and_bow
"Hey, we have one clone, I think I mentioned him. What's a uterine replicator?"
cross_and_bow
"That sounds convenient, assuming the right social structures popped up to match and they aren't being used in nasty coercive ways."
unmarred
"There's plenty of nastiness, but it's mostly localized to especially nasty places."
cross_and_bow
"Par for the course, I guess. Do you know anything I could go home and 'invent' in my garage, I wonder?"
unmarred
"Definitely not off the top of my head. The several hundred years of missing infrastructure would be a problem."
unmarred
"If you are, or know, some kind of engineering genius, I could tell you things like my broad understanding of the physical principles behind a plasma arc. That's a weapon that fires bolts of plasma. Good for setting things extremely on fire. But I know I couldn't build one in a centuries-old garage."
cross_and_bow
"Vampires happened to him around the same time they happened to Sherlock, just not in the same way. This is also what befell the AI with the British accent. And you did the creepy smile when you asked that."
cross_and_bow
"You've earned some leeway with me, and this is not my, personal, tragedy that you have been slightly callous about, but I thought you might want the course-correction."
cross_and_bow
"Hey Bar," says Bella, "do you do things besides napkins and food?"
I can produce most harmless nonmagical medium-sized nonliving objects.
"...such as the copy of Vanity Fair with Tony Stark on it?"
Do you want to borrow or buy it?
"Borrow will do."
And here is a copy of Vanity Fair with Tony Stark on the cover.
"This is what Tony looked like - I suppose it's loosely possible that this is actually a picture of Sherlock if he judged this photo shoot to be a high assassination risk for some reason, but this is Tony body language rather than Sherlock body language anyhow. If you were curious."
I can produce most harmless nonmagical medium-sized nonliving objects.
"...such as the copy of Vanity Fair with Tony Stark on it?"
Do you want to borrow or buy it?
"Borrow will do."
And here is a copy of Vanity Fair with Tony Stark on the cover.
"This is what Tony looked like - I suppose it's loosely possible that this is actually a picture of Sherlock if he judged this photo shoot to be a high assassination risk for some reason, but this is Tony body language rather than Sherlock body language anyhow. If you were curious."
cross_and_bow
"I never actually met Tony. And Sherlock doesn't talk about him all that much and I try not to bring him up."
unmarred
"You seemed to imply just now that Sherlock does a good impression of him."
cross_and_bow
"But I haven't seen him do it, not in person. Tony was extremely famous, hence the magazine cover, and Sherlock impersonated him undetected a few times that I know of, so he must have done a pretty good impression - the accent and the," she gestures at the magazine, "characteristic smile, bare minimum, but I haven't seen it."