what in the longdark spitting-pit is that
This was a bad idea this was a bad idea this was a bad idea.
Holly runs as fast as she can but the demon's faster. She has no idea where Lightning's gotten to; maybe he found a tree to climb. She on the other hand has been diverted into a treeless hill and she's careening down a slope, trying very hard not to trip.
And the demon's gaining on her.
She's never seen anything like it and neither has Crystal; maybe Book knows what it is but Book's asleep. It's mostly mouth - it looks like a cross between a floorlength mirror of a mouth and a snake to propel the mouth along.
And Holly's not fast enough.
The mouth catches her.
But it doesn't hurt.
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with Minus (kappa)
with Mark (kappa)
with Max (Benedict)
in Terraria (kappa)
with Emma (Marri)
with Erin (Rockeye)
Holly runs as fast as she can but the demon's faster. She has no idea where Lightning's gotten to; maybe he found a tree to climb. She on the other hand has been diverted into a treeless hill and she's careening down a slope, trying very hard not to trip.
And the demon's gaining on her.
She's never seen anything like it and neither has Crystal; maybe Book knows what it is but Book's asleep. It's mostly mouth - it looks like a cross between a floorlength mirror of a mouth and a snake to propel the mouth along.
And Holly's not fast enough.
The mouth catches her.
But it doesn't hurt.
Where are we?
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with Minus (kappa)
with Mark (kappa)
with Max (Benedict)
in Terraria (kappa)
with Emma (Marri)
with Erin (Rockeye)
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"Yyyyyeah, I'll have that for you in just a second."
The guy runs off and comes back with a little plastic box with eight live white mice in it. "Eleven ninety-five."
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"...Jerk." he mutters, when they're out of earshot. "Even if I was off some kind of meds... kids've got no respect."
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But he's not especially shocked, which surprises him enough to make up for itself. He should be seeing this as a paradigm shift, a new wrinkle in his ideas about how her magic works, but... perhaps...
And then she offers him a mouse.
"Me? You can... mweelsrow my sleep to mouse?"
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Max can't think of how to ask those questions, and elects to have them answered directly.
"OK," he says, slowly. "Uh, OK means yes."
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He walks to the car, and...
...isn't sure where to go from here, actually.
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He could call up Gloria and see if she's figured something out.
Or... he could drive her down to Rutgers-Newark's physics department, get their people started on figuring her out. 'In addition to, if not instead of'... that's what Gloria said, right?
He sits in the driver's seat. "We go school- not Gloria school. Person try... send? Send Pyay Nloggy."
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Speaking of child services... oh, hell. Seatbelts. He stops and pulls over.
"Pyay- need 'seatbelt'. Seatbelt safe." He points out the seatbelt and plug thing, then demonstrates his own seatbelt.
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Apparently she doesn't know that word.
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He drives on some, pulls off the main road, finds a roomy parking lot, and accelerates a bit- then hits the brakes.
"Seatbelt."
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She puts her seatbelt on.
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No, wait. Hold it. Carsickness? In a world with no cars? Not only is queasiness not a quantity- it's a disruption of a very particular system that he wouldn't expect to generalize to mice- even if this were a designed technology, he wouldn't expect it to have a function for transferring something they'd never have to...
Well, no. Carsickness could be a general case of "upset stomach" or somesuch that they'd have prepared...
Max sighs. If she could understand him, he would have so many questions about this business. He supposes the people are Rutgers will be able to figure this out for him.
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