Hmm?

Stepped way up with the hinting. I have no goddamn idea. I asked her if she was hinting at something and she didn't answer me but she's still doing it.

I said I didn't want to give her the artifact that lets people make them yet because I wasn't sure she was the best option I could find. No response. Does she know we know each other -

She does know that.

I hate all of this why can't people just coordinate.

No idea. I wish I could figure out what she means. I'm sure she means something.

Could've come to confiscate my stuff, did not do that, so that's at least weak evidence she's all right? I'd sort of rather go with Rete at this point. 

 

 

If you were okay with me reading your mind I could do that and decide if I'm comfortable trusting you with it, he writes Dragon.

I don't go places in person. I'm agoraphobic.

I could come visit you and hang out five miles away.

I'm in Vancouver. Come by anytime, I don't leave the house.

He tells Lorica he's doing that.

He hasn't actually been on an airplane before but they can only stay in the air for so long, it can't be that horrible, right? He requests a government-issued photo ID from the Protectorate and gets a flight to Vancouver with stops in Chicago and Salt Lake City and Seattle.

Takeoff to Seattle is delayed. They have to sit on the tarmac for a while waiting for clearance to leave.

Planes suck. Unhappy Elf reminds himself that he sits still for this long voluntarily all the time and works on an artifact block and plays music and is miserable. 

It'll be an hour. ...Two. Four.

Okay, come on. At four he asks to get off the plane, please, he'll buy another ticket for later.

No deplaning. Would he like some peanuts.

He can walk to Vancouver faster than this. He would like to get off the plane.

They will be taking off within the hour please go back to your seat sir.

They said that last hour, and the hour before that. 

They're going as fast as they can return to your seat now sir.

He does.

His seat is in an emergency exit row. 

He can't make his heart rate slow down.

They will probably be able to take off in the next um two hours. The captain apologizes.

Can people who want to deplane do that now?

Nope.

He opens the emergency exit door and gets off the plane.