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[fe_male]

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[nyktelios]

[ it's important to her. kind of really important. ]

That doesn't sound like me at all. [ Well. No, okay, it sounds kind of like her when she's got something to hide or is trying to pretend she doesn't have a problem. Just not all the time. ] So you don't know what happened with - never mind. I guess I'll have a decade to find out.

[fe_male]

[ He's not totally sure what to say to that. ] I didn't act like this when i was a kid. People change, even you.

[nyktelios]

I'm not a kid. [ Shrugging, and oh hey she likes that car, this warrants a more thorough examination. ] I'm pretty settled, actually.

[fe_male]

[ Yeah, you're probably not a kid. He wasn't one at your age anymore either. ]

Poke around anything that looks interesting. Except the Ford there. [ pointing ] That one's my baby. If anything else doesn't need to be touched, it'll let you know.

[nyktelios]

[ It's less of a true statement than she thinks it is, but in general she's fairly mature and set in her ways for her age. ]

So you just let me have free reign of your workshop? Seriously?

[fe_male]

Well I'm not leaving you here by yourself or anything, I'm not crazy, I don't leave anyone here by themselves, I'll sic Butterfingers and You on you.

[nyktelios]

[ Looking up from her investigation with confusion on her face. ] Butterfingers and You are?

[fe_male]

[ Without looking up he points - ] and [ - points at the other. ] And that [ - pointing again - ] is Dummy.

[nyktelios]

[ Glancing at them with interest, because if he's talking about them like they're people, then there's always a change. ] Are they AI's?

[fe_male]

Ssssort of. They're AIs in that they have some leeway in what they choose to do, but they're somewhat limited in scope. And breadth. And... Well, I don't want my babies to hear the word that means impaired but, sometimes... [ Theatrically significant trailing off. But he's still working, even after he shrugs to finish the show. ]

[nyktelios]

[ Okay, that gets a laugh out of her, amused. Even in the middle of whatever mess this is, she can't lose her sense of humor. ] They're cute, though. [ Still poking around, but now she's circling back towards the suits. ] So what are you? What's this armor for?

[fe_male]

[ Good. He'd be doing it really wrong if he couldn't get her to laugh even a little bit after a while. ] Me. It helps if you're flying around to be encased in a suit of armor. You know, sometimes you get hit by an F16, sometimes you need to tackle some bad guy, it's just how it goes.

[nyktelios]

[ Max at any age likes laughing, and the younger she is the less she's surprised at laughing at any given moment. ] You can fly in that? [ color her very very interested. ] That's not subtle enough for vigilante. Superhero, I guess?

[fe_male]

Hey, check-it, got it in one. I can totally fly in that. I can fly everywhere in that. [ Idle tap of the reactor casing through his shirt. That's what makes him fly everywhere. ] I am Iron Man. A superhero.

[nyktelios]

[ Glancing at the reactor and filing that away on the list of things to consider asking about. It still looks interesting. Cybernetics? ] Iron Man, huh? A suit that big - [ wait no this is not a time to actually make terrible jokes. She trails off with a grin and ducks her head. ] So what's she do, if you're off flying?

[fe_male]

[ What ] While I'm out? I mean, her independence isn't dependent entirely on me. [ Pause. ]
I don't know.

[nyktelios]

Well, yeah, of course not, I'm just curious - [ well that's not any help at all. ] Does she still have a night job?

that's a perfectly reasonable thing to be annoyed by

[fe_male]

When she feels like it, yeah. As far as I know. Normally we don't really like it when the other one goes off by themselves.

yes i agree

[nyktelios]

[ Seriously she can't figure out what the hell sort of arrangement future her and this guy have and on top of the dissonance of having nobody on the other side of her bond it's starting to drive her crazy. She just wants to understand what's going on here. ] Protective instinct, but that's.

I'm confused. Like, really confused. I can't figure this out.

[fe_male]

[ Wait, what. ]

You can't figure what out? You didn't actually give me an antecedent there.

[nyktelios]

[ This obviously frustrated gesture with her arm. ]

Any of this. What I'm doing here, why I'm with you, where John is, what happens in the next ten years that I wind up here -

This doesn't make sense.

[fe_male]

[ Okay, he'll stop what he's doing, sort of lean on the edge of the table a little and consider that, because it's not like he wouldn't want answers in her situation. It's just too bad he doesn't actually know any of these answers. ]

I don't know how to make it make sense. I don't know what happened, just that it... was more or less an accident.

[nyktelios]

[ Well, the paying attention mollifies her a little bit, even if now she feels a little bit silly for that whole outburst. She knows she's got reason to be frustrated, but she tries to be at least a little calmer about it generally.

Accident really doesn't sound too promising. ] I guess it's not important. Or at least not now, I just. [ Urgh. ] It just doesn't say anything good about my immediate future, so -

I guess I should be figuring out how to get back. That's more important.

[fe_male]

[ It's okay he looks back down at the table for a little bit even if he doesn't start using it again yet. ]

Well. I can't help with that - the immediate future - too much, but I know you seem pretty... Okay, here. You seem happy. Ish. Enough, I mean.

[ Whatever. That's enough feelings crap. He looks back up at her, claps his hands once, enough to echo around the workshop and fall silent again. ] Excellent, time travel. Always wanted to figure out how that works. How do you feel about being scanned with everything I can think of?

[nyktelios]

[ Looking progressively more unconvinced. That many qualifiers needed for happy doesn't really seem great to her, bro. ]

Scans are all good. Scan away. Try not to bring too much radiation into it, I hear that gives you superpowers and I'm really fine with my current skillset.