"Well, if you give her name and contact information my robot can follow up on that, and you won't be inconveniencing it at all because it's a robot."

"Oh well in that case I don't actually," she quips back, sticking her tongue at her brother.

"Loser."

But would a loser smile at her brother like this?

Apparently.

"Questions, comments, recriminations?"

Apparently not.

Aisha returns from kicking the body in time to leave.

The two vehicles meet up where they planned the handoff, with psych orderlies for grief-mad wives and fosters for the kids. Plumata debirds people one at a time.

During this process is Galea perhaps a bug????

"Rete please ask Skitter what she's even doing here."

Well right now she's trying to figure out if wasps can survive in molten metal if you dip them in water first because if so that would come in real handy right about now. And separately she's finishing up with some mooks three blocks from that. 

"Tell her I'm cleaning up the rest of the city. And congrats."

"What is THAT supposed to mean?"

It means you're invited to dinner at our place! South East Outremont.

"I assume I'm the guest of honor," mutters Zephyr, which Rete adds to the group chat for her.

Didn't think you'd want be?

I mean, I'm glad he's dead, I was just sort of hoping for a slightly neater operation than we got.

Well, she can have the first slice of cake if she wants.

Yeah, cake will make her feel a lil bit better.

The other Loricae will have to wait in line with the rest of the attendees.

"Hey uh. Are you Sarcina?" Lucien asks hopefully-the-tinker. 

You can tell because she's the one with the toolkit on her suit. "You've come to the right Lorica, yeah."

Oh thank god.

"I was wondering if you can do mass transportation projects. They're going to set-up a second portal here to the same earth as the one back home and it'd be really neat if we could take advantage of the empty earth to set-up high speed transit between the two." 

"I could give Rete a train, probably, if that'd do."

"Do you mean give her an existing train or build her a new one?"

"Rete's an it. It'd certainly be faster to get train cars from somewhere that mass-produces them, and maybe most of the locomotives too."

"What sort of advantages might it manage over traditional set-ups?

"Well, you wouldn't have to staff it, and you could wiggle the capacity around in response to demand more fluidly, but honestly trains are trains, I'm not sure it'd be all that great an improvement."

"Hrm, could you manage automated maintenance?"