"Not commonly enough that I know about it, at least."

"Oh thank goodness.  It's so fucking stupid.  Economic disruption, car crashes, lots of other health shit..."

"Why do they do it, then?"

"Some rich nob wanted more time hunting bugs, then they dusted it off as a wartime rationing measure and forgot to put it back when they were done, apparently.  Everybody keeps trying to get rid of it but they never seem to find the momentum.

"Though I think they might've this time, actually.  I forget what the news was precisely, though, which would matter."

"Hunting bugs?"

"Butterfly collecting, to be more specific."

"Huh."

"I know, right?  Like, I get it, butterflies are your special interest and waking up early in the morning sucks, but bending timekeeping itself is too much of a competing access need!"

This gets a brief chuckle out of him.

Yay!  Someone laughed at her joke!  She is getting a good grade in comedy!  A thing that is both rational to want and possible to achieve!  (Hahahahahaha no it isn't, but she's still happy Nine laughed.)

At which point Pradnakt, with her hair still mussed from sleep, pokes her head in to ask Daisy a question; Daisy gives a brief answer, and Pradnakt goes back in, presumably to get ready for her day.

"Oh, hey; good morning."

A moment passes, then Diana remembers that the droids are the only people presently capable of English.

::Embarrassment.  Goodmorning/greetings.::

She gets a sense of distracted acknowledgement in reply.

Fair!  Well, she'll finish her book.

Pradnakt's back in ten minutes, now wearing a different outfit - all black, again, but with a different pattern of red and gold embroidery - but the same holster belt Diana might recall from yesterday. She greets Daisy and Nine, and then sends ::G'morning. Doing better today?::

::Yeah.  Let myself get distracted with house planning.::

::Always fun. Come up with anything good?::

::Yeah!::

She hands Pradnakt the datapad with the blueprints, and Light-constructs a rendition of what she thinks the house might look like when it's complete.

Hm.

::I haven't seen domes done in adobe before, I'll have to look into it.::

::It's all brick; you can do this with red brick; therefore, it's possible with adobe, because the theory is sound unless the material isn't.  I don't know the specific numbers but it oughtn't be hard to check if we have samples, and really I should just see if the structural qualities of adobe are included in the,:: her broadcast cannot not tinge with subdued awe as it touches upon the expletive-deleted Batman, ::mini-Batcomputer's reference database, but either way, my money's on it working, eventually.  There's a pretty famous cathedral that's been around for a pretty long while, built this way.  It wasn't with adobe specifically, but...bricks are bricks, yeah?::

::Bricks are bricks but neither of us is an expert with them, I don't want to have to dig you out of a pile of rubble. It's not a no, I just want to look into it first.::

::Yeah, I don't want to find the house falling down around me either.  ...Why am I so feeling-obliged-to-defend-myself, if you were attacking me I'd know.  And I agree about double-checking my work!::

::You would, yeah,:: she sends, neutrally. ::Anyway, that might mean a month or two of waiting, if I end up having to order a reference from offplanet - we'll know when Daisy gets back from town, they'll be able to tell us if there's something suitable in the city even if they don't have it.::

::"Eh," we can just make some samples, get actual stress data, and then do physics models to rough tolerances.  I've got hardware that isn't a locked-down user-babying tablet computer and I'm almost certain Robin uses this thing to plot...I don't know what that boy hasn't plotted with this, honestly.  Either way, I bet Batman packed a physics simulator in the guise of demolitions programming.  Just in case it's needed.::

::I suppose that takes less than a couple months. I want to see the math as you go, though.::