Her laugh brought a wide grin to his face. It was a good laugh, for all its brevity, and made him recall Sascha's reaction to a similar overlay the previous year. She'd been livid. To be fair, for once she hadn't been stalked but doing the stalking, and she'd been at a fancy shindig with some even fancier schmucks. Impeccable though it was, a hideous visage showing up among the doves of the ball drew security immediately. This, he decided, was a far more appropriate venue. Fate chuckled. "Vid feed fans will wonder how your face defies gravity."
He paused to understand what the little imp was attempting to do with her fingers. Spying the cig, he frowned, deeper still when he realized the keyboard was out of reach. He retooled the algorithm with a complicated series of blinks and eyerolls that to an outsider would probably appear he was having a seizure. "You know, if I weren't a genius, your tusks would look like they were on fire."
My luck, she'd like that too.
"Your deficiency is noted." He set about a temporary rewire that would at least keep things tepid all around, and pondered whether or not she meant it when she said not to tell her about his kitchen woes. His mouth decided it didn't matter. "It's not my toaster, it's my drink dispenser. The circuit board blew out in the move. Or else this new place has rodents with lasers for eyes."
Maybe inane chattering would help her look more natural. Yes, that was why he couldn't stop himself from adding, "It normally is a pretty thing, by the by. If you had one, you wouldn't have to beg beer from strangers."
The drone had recovered, but both vidlinks were inert; neither one was on her tail now. "I don't fuck people over on purpose. Oh brilliant. I don't fuck people over. Yeah, that sounds much better than the first way."
Carefully, he reset the back of the device to mundane factory settings. More carefully, his eyes multitasked between cords and cables and tablets and the slow but nominal progress she made toward her destination. The hazard of doing too many things at once was that Fate occasionally got pulled too far in. So when he eventually responded to her "inoffensive" accusation that he might be some kind of drug dealer or a being of nefarious integrity, his tone had cooled to the point of almost being mechanical. "Wouldn't send you beer from here anyway; with this thing on the fritz it's likely to be boiling, and that's just as fucked up as roofies."
A flick of silver on the right side of the HUD. He backed the feed up, saw a flat blade-like shape, set it back to the present. "The natives are restless. If you have an issue here before you hit that next pipe..." He blinked and the alternate set of screens dropped down to take precedence. "...best bet: duck under the neon green "do not cross" bars and then cut through the building to the right."
He paused to understand what the little imp was attempting to do with her fingers. Spying the cig, he frowned, deeper still when he realized the keyboard was out of reach. He retooled the algorithm with a complicated series of blinks and eyerolls that to an outsider would probably appear he was having a seizure. "You know, if I weren't a genius, your tusks would look like they were on fire."
My luck, she'd like that too.
"Your deficiency is noted." He set about a temporary rewire that would at least keep things tepid all around, and pondered whether or not she meant it when she said not to tell her about his kitchen woes. His mouth decided it didn't matter. "It's not my toaster, it's my drink dispenser. The circuit board blew out in the move. Or else this new place has rodents with lasers for eyes."
Maybe inane chattering would help her look more natural. Yes, that was why he couldn't stop himself from adding, "It normally is a pretty thing, by the by. If you had one, you wouldn't have to beg beer from strangers."
The drone had recovered, but both vidlinks were inert; neither one was on her tail now. "I don't fuck people over on purpose. Oh brilliant. I don't fuck people over. Yeah, that sounds much better than the first way."
Carefully, he reset the back of the device to mundane factory settings. More carefully, his eyes multitasked between cords and cables and tablets and the slow but nominal progress she made toward her destination. The hazard of doing too many things at once was that Fate occasionally got pulled too far in. So when he eventually responded to her "inoffensive" accusation that he might be some kind of drug dealer or a being of nefarious integrity, his tone had cooled to the point of almost being mechanical. "Wouldn't send you beer from here anyway; with this thing on the fritz it's likely to be boiling, and that's just as fucked up as roofies."
A flick of silver on the right side of the HUD. He backed the feed up, saw a flat blade-like shape, set it back to the present. "The natives are restless. If you have an issue here before you hit that next pipe..." He blinked and the alternate set of screens dropped down to take precedence. "...best bet: duck under the neon green "do not cross" bars and then cut through the building to the right."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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