in principle I think you should be able to guess the entire premise from the title
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"All right. To drop off the mirror and then to the moon."

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"Sure. Fly up to the shuttle or call it down?"

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"Let's fly up to it." It feels less risky, somehow, though of course any adversaries they'd attracted would be able to fly. No one scried them in this shopping-interval, though. 

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Cam snaps his wings open and takes off next time they find a clear enough space in the road.

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She's faster, since her flying is magic. She doesn't wholly relax until they're enshuttled. "All right. - do you want concessions such as that you get to be in the room with the mirror, for giving it to the woman who offered -"

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"It's very kind of you to offer. I hadn't been planning to insist but it'd make me less concerned about objectionable plotting behind my back which you might find desirable."

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There is no point in denying that she would do that. "I'm willing to do that since I'm sort of counting on you to deliver it to the right place and not drop it in the ocean accidentally anyway."

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"Cool. We can put one end over here next to the screen - may I make a mounting setup for it -"

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"In unoccupied air out of copper and steel."

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"It will be so steampunk." He makes one with unnecessary gears and clips the mirror into it.

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"I don't know what steampunk is but I like it. What do the gears do?" She hands him the other mirror for drone-sending.

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"They're decorative! Steampunk is an aesthetic genre that includes decorative gears. You will have to let me make the drone."

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"What're drones made out of?"

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"Roughly the same things as the shuttle? The materials science is complicated and I don't have a list memorized."

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Nod. "You can make a standard sort of drone on the ship in unoccupied air with enough fuel to make it to Cheliax and back."

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Dog-sized drone. He opens a compartment and puts the mirror in. "You want to add a note or anything?"

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"I should, yeah. The contents don't matter but the form should - communicate that it's me and that you're still working with me -  is there some kind of really distinctly technological paper we could use or something -"

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"...paper hasn't improved much since I was alive but maybe 'very rectangular and white' is impressive here?"

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"Do you want to make some characteristic white paper in unoccupied shuttle air and I'll look at it and think if it's impressive?"

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"Sure. - I think that phrasing doesn't allow it."

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"Sorry. You can make a sheet of characteristic white paper in unoccupied shuttle air."

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8.5"x11" paper appears.

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"...I think it'll do. Can you make appear on the paper, in ink unless the future uses something fancier, I hope this enables future collaboration, Paraduchess." 

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He'll do it in toner.

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"Thanks. It'll be less than seven minutes to the destination?"

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