"Other half of the house, yeah, and we share the laundry machines. I don't specifically expect that there's inspections happening without notice but there could be."

"Okayy, be sensible with your incredible magic power, see if I care."  Kiss?

Kiss!!

"...Can we at least try wireheading me to bed tonight?  It seems important to learn exactly how that works."

"All right, as long as it doesn't make you difficult to snuggle somehow."

"I don't see how it would!  And if it does that's important information."

"Mm-hm." She reaches across the table to squeeze Sarah's non-fork hand.

"I love you so much.  I'm going to make you so powerful."

"And you will have a delightful time doing it too if today is any indication."

"...You could probably make me stop but you would have to do it on purpose.  I'm pretty sure."

"I wouldn't want to do that!"

Dinner continues being Shepard-toneily delicious.

Sarah rather bounces on her way over to the bed.

Chelsea snuggles up to her from behind and puts the phone where they can both see it and pokes her way over to Wireheading.

The she will get a Sarah whose body goes completely slack all at once, who gets a little back every once in a while in the direction of being cuddly, who makes occasional small happy noises, and who otherwise does not really respond to external stimuli.

Now the real question is, does it hurt to stop, because she likes being able to, like, interact, with Sarah. Boop.

Mmmmsnuggle.

"You good?"

Nod.

"Can you, like, talk?"

"Yeah."

"Oh good. I don't want to leave you stuck like that forever, even if it's nice."

Nod nod.  Snuggle.

"- Oh I'm really smart.  I think I can't talk very much because... the things that I was trying to say weren't 60% articulate, or whatever you had it set at."  She's over-enunciating a bit.

"Huh. There are things too simple to say at sixty percent?"