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Max heads home, writes up everything he remembers from the trip to the moon with Cam and Adana, and then when his girlfriend gets home, he presents it to her happily.
"Also," he adds, once she's been updated. "The portal hub in Pantheon got a ton of renovations, I think we're calling it the Belfry now. It's very cute."
castmyown
darkest_evening
"Yeeees? I would say something sarcastic here but you sound like you're on to something."
ask_nicely
"We could just record the mirror, fast forward through the unimportant or private bits, and not waste as much time?"
from_scratch
"This does mean there's a delay on catching him if he does something nefarious, although he won't know when. Could work."
ask_nicely
"Maybe. Or - some sort of computer program that recognizes when certain words are said in the recording? Like - 'sphinx' and lets us know so we can watch that part of the recording."
from_scratch
"He might expect us to be cursory even if he doesn't expect the software solution and come up with a code. Or write."
from_scratch
"Suppose Ice's robots are smart enough to figure out whether he's doing approved or non-approved things? They're not - aware enough for it to be a huge deal if he does need privacy sometimes for legit reasons."
ask_nicely
"Aren't we already mirroring her?" asks Adana, amused. "She is married to the other mage, and all."
from_scratch
"I mean when the mirror is answered we want to talk to both of them and not just him. Is it night there or something? We need a snazzy calendar-y thing..."
from_scratch
"Yeah, just because we can power on with coffee forever doesn't mean they can. Oh well."
prodigal_miser
And that is when Cypress answers the mirror. He is missing a shirt. He looks disheveled and zombified and not entirely there. It - was probably the middle of the night.
"Bmrhr?" is his first sleepy word.
"Bmrhr?" is his first sleepy word.
from_scratch
"Ah, geez, did we wake you? I'm sorry. It's not an emergency anymore, you can go back to bed and we can call back in like five hours."
from_scratch
"Okay, uh, there's a dragon weighted to the floor of the Belfry, we are thinking mirror-enhanced parole."
from_scratch
"Yeah, we wanted to talk to her about sleep-spelling Prime and loaning one of her robots to the project of supervising the dragon."
prodigal_miser
"Mm'kay."
He gets up to retrieve his wife. Thankfully, it turns out he's wearing pants.
He gets up to retrieve his wife. Thankfully, it turns out he's wearing pants.