glowfic | methods and tools

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methods and tools

The gate opens in an small space. Through a doorway ahead is a mid-sized room, scattered with chairs. One wall, directly across from the doorway to the incoming gates area, is made of some clear material. On the other side of it is another room, with a metallic floor raised slightly above the first one's, with a half-dozen complex diagrams and space for many more.

The way into there appears to be through a decontamination room to the left. There is a door on the right into the rest of the base. Embedded in the wall to the left is the door to the outgoing gate area.

Both rooms are windowless and otherwise minimally decorated.

(Observant guests may note that the gravity is about a third of what they are used to.)

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Thorn squints at him for a moment, and then makes a comprehending noise, and produces a knife from somewhere on her person, offering it (correctly, hilt-first) to him.

"Oh! Thank you!" He takes the knife and turns his arm over, looking for somewhere with less nerves or major blood vessels.

"Be careful," Thorn says. "It is, um, very sharp."

He nods, and carefully pokes his arm with it. He swaps the knife to his other hand, and presses the bloodstone against his arm. He looks to Thorn for permission, and then presses the stone to her forehead. The blood glows briefly blue, then disappears.

Yes, that is a thing that just happened.

She wordlessly offers him a cloth with which to clear the knife, and a flat thumb-sized object.

He wipes the blade and hands it back to her, hilt-first. He accepts the thing that is apparently a bandage and applies it to his arm.

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The knife disappears again. "Thank you," she says, after a moment.

She reaches out absently to pick up the necklace, and then stops, looking at him.

He looks nervous, but then nods. "It's probably not evil..." He sounds extremely dubious.

"I know what it is," she says, as it occurs to her that he might not know that, "and we checked, too, if it is doing something else it is hiding it amazingly well."

"Good. Uh. Is it dangerous to know what it is unless you're the one who bought it or who uses it?"

Thorn blinks. "No? --Um, it is a Takkarash minting kit."

"Oh, you can feel pain? Are you sure it will definitely only hurt you when you tell it to?"

"...Yes? --This is a biomorph, not a synthmorph with a synthetic mask. --And yes, we checked the triggering mechanism very thoroughly." She reaches out and scoops up the necklace, watching him for alarm as she does so.

He still looks slightly confused, but lets it go. He watches as she picks up the necklace, but doesn't try to stop her.

She holds it for a few moments, thinking. "--Would you be more comfortable if this looked different?"

"It looks pretty evil right now, but disguising it wouldn't change what its true form is? So it would be the same either way. So, do it if you want to?"

She gives him a slightly puzzled look, but shrugs, and slides the necklace over her head. After a moment or two, with slight concentration on her part, it shifts, digging the thorns into her skin. She looks slightly pained for a moment, and then it fades. Black coins appear on the table beside her.

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After a moment of this, "Thorn? Not sure if you noticed, but the necklace is biting you."

She is visibly confused for a fraction of a second before noticing his alarm, and then directs the thorns to retract before answering. "Biting is -- not exactly the word I would have used, but, yes, it does that."

He relaxes a little, when he sees that she can control them, and a little more at her response. "Okay. As long as you know."

She looks at him for a moment, then shifts the necklace to the appearance it had when she came in. Then she looks at the coins on the table (there are nine ten-takkarash coins and three one-takkarash coins there), before carefully scooping them up and offering them to him.

He eyes the coins dubiously, but carefully takes them from her and puts the 10-TKR pieces on the table. "What exactly should I do?"

"They are for you. To use when you need them." She thinks for a moment, and then clarifies, "To use when you think you might possibly need them, really, they take time to redeem and the warding is more of the point than the anaesthesia, because, well, that does not actually heal injuries. I would really prefer that you use them when you do not wind up needing the protection than not doing so and needing it. --And you can and should let me know when you run low so that I can make more."

"Oh. Thank you." He pauses and blinks. "I get it doing anaesthesia but how would it do warding?"

"It does -- a ward against painful events?"

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