Edie is thinking about magic, because what else do you do with your spare time when the good part of a book isn't calling you with its siren song?
Her thoughts are interrupted by a knocking on her door. She gets up to answer it.
Edie is thinking about magic, because what else do you do with your spare time when the good part of a book isn't calling you with its siren song?
Her thoughts are interrupted by a knocking on her door. She gets up to answer it.
"Yeah, already have gendershifting and can heal a bunch of things on myself, but nothing more than bruises on other people."
"Well, I'll go for de-aging once I've reached an appropriate point, with generalizing from plants to animals, of course, but what I really want to do is mess around with genetics and stuff."
"Evolution is cool, and positive mutations normally happen slowly enough you can't really watch?"
"Probably mostly, you know, supercrops and gene therapy--although, considering that world hunger is mostly a distribution issue at this point, I was also thinking of altering wild plants that are already really virulent, like dandelions, to be more nutritious."
"Psion. Probably going into psionic tech, eventually, although right now I'm mostly just working on improving my memory."