a Sapphire on Earth-16 with an indigo power ring
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"I'll take what I can use then. It was good meeting you. I'll keep you updated."

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Then Sapphire can take some cable for her subspace pocket—apparently a technical term for the phenomenon also known as hammerspace—transition away, and get to work repairing power lines. Her ring's computer does most of the actual work: planning her itinerary, setting up transitions, forming Indigo Light constructs that cut, position, and fuse cable, scanning for faults, periodically calling Rivas to inform him of progress, etcetera. All she has to do is maintain Compassion and the Light will continue to flow through her. It's fairly mindless work, but not necessarily boring; she's getting to see a lot of beautiful Mexican countryside, and even if only by observation, learn a lot more than most people know about how the electrical grid works. At about five o'clock, her ring interrupts her.

"Warning; 10% charge remaining."

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In the background of other tasks she's been thinking about her activation sequence. Set down nearby and we'll try recharging.

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She touches down.

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She puts her ring in the slot in her staff takes a deep breath. Focuses on her compassion and speaks.

"My compassion is for all I see
and understanding is profound.
For whatever evils there may be,
greater goodness can be found."

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Her ring and staff glow brightly, and the Light she is connected to feels noticeably reinvigorated.

"100% charge remaining."

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It feels good, it feels right. She basks in the sensation for a short while. Smiling at the world around her. And then she returns to work.

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By this point, she's nearly finished repairing the high-voltage lines, and after another half-hour or so, Guy shows up, flying in from the east.

"Hey, Sapphire. I heard you were single-handedly fixing the Mexican electrical grid. What do you say I help you finish up and then we go get dinner?"

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"Sure, it's not clear to me if eating is now optional like sleeping supposedly is but it sounds nice regardless and I'd definitely appreciate the help." 

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He starts helping her with the repairs.

"Your environmental shield can take care of pretty much everything—I'll spare you the details—but eating is still enjoyable and I got a reservation at a great place in New York I think you'll like. Sleeping isn't... entirely optional, but you certainly can do with a lot less of it. Your ring should be able to remove waste products from your brain and take care of most of the other things that happen while you sleep, but people get a little weird after they've been conscious for more than a week. I think you just gotta have a reset every once in a while."

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"That's good to know, maybe my ring just meant I could finish a particular plan it said would take a bit over four days without sleeping. It's very literal. And a nice dinner sounds good."

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He chuckles. "Yeah, I don't know if your computer is anything like ours, but it certainly can be frustrating to deal with. You get used to it, though."

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"I'm slowly getting used to it yeah. It's pretty amazing how flexible it is and how much it's able to do. It could translate Spanish for me in a few seconds."

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"Green Lantern rings can translate between I think any languages in the universe. Although you don't have a database, so you'll have to collect that information yourself. It shouldn't be too difficult for most human languages."

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"Are you allowed to share parts of your database with me?"

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"I am definitely allowed to send you the data I've collected on Earth—I'll send you most of it, but some things are secret—but I'd need permission from Oa for anything more. The Guardians don't want their knowledge spread around too much, could be destabilizing. I did hear back from them, by the way."

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"I'd appreciate everything you can send me. What did you hear from the Guardians?"

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"Data received."

If Sapphire inspects the data packet, she will see that it contains maps, language data, notes on local supervillains, and various other information that may become relevant in the future.

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"They said that if your home universe is accessible at all, the data I collected will be enough to locate it. I don't know if they'd actually be willing to do so, but I'd guess not for free. They also mentioned that they were aware of other Indigo Light users in the universe, but they're pretty reclusive and not much is known about them. And probably a lot of what is known is classified."

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"Thanks, could you tell me more about the Guardians? I think you said they live on or are somehow associated with Oa but if they have access to rings like we do I'm not sure what they would want in exchange for their help."

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"The Guardians are a group of nine immortal beings who forged the green power rings and founded the Green Lantern Corps. They're very knowledgeable and powerful, but also kinda weird. Maybe being billions of years old does that to you. Oa is the headquarters of the corps, and yeah, where they live. They don't actually use rings, they can just use the Light by themselves. Although I think it's Green Light, I don't know if they can use Indigo, so they might want you to do something with that. Or ask for some other kind of favor. I don't really know what it would be, but they definitely don't need money."

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"That's convenient I doubt aliens take a couple crumpled twenties from an alternate universe."

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"You know, I don't think you'd be arrested for counterfeiting if you tried to spend those, but I can't say for certain. Actually, do your bills look like ours at all?"

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"I don't know, I haven't seen any local currency yet."

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Guy pulls a twenty out of subspace, which looks like a very impressive magic trick if you aren't used to power rings. He passes it to her. It looks a lot like the twenties she's familiar with, but with a lot more anti-counterfeiting measures.

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