Let's Do The Space Warp Again

[iamnotpolaris]

'Guided random' selected, parameters recalibrated, universe selection initiated.
What's on the other side now?

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[iamnotpolaris]

Emily also approves of chocolate, but fresh fruit isn't something they can really haul around in a bag with them. She will have blueberries. And fish.
She will probably start getting sick of fish if she has it too much more often, but she is not trapped in Terraria, so she doesn't have to do that.

[not_only]

And then dinner is over (alas! No more chocolate today!) and it's dark outside and they may as well go to sleep and check on the calibrator tomorrow.

[whatamithinking]

May as well, yes.
Depending on how early Sivath chooses to get up, he may or may not find that Edie has gotten up sooner. Either way, the first thing she does is change into running clothes and start doing laps outside the house again.

[not_only]

He gets up a little before dawn and goes star-collecting, just like always. So he probably sees her when he comes back.

"I found more blueberries," he says, since this is bound to be more relevant to her than his supply of fallen stars.

[whatamithinking]

"Cool," she says, slowing down so she doesn't just zip past him. "Thank you."

[not_only]

"It's no trouble. Do you think the calibrator will be finished soon?"

[whatamithinking]

"Yeah."
She's not very talkative while she's using most of her breath for aerobic exercise.

[not_only]

That is all he wanted to ask anyway. He goes inside.

[iamnotpolaris]

Emily is still asleep, or at least she hasn't admitted otherwise to herself yet.

[not_only]

Well, then, Sivath puts the blueberries on a table and sits quietly and thinks about architecture.

[iamnotpolaris]

After a while Emily will admit to being awake. She wanders over. "G'morning."

[not_only]

"Good morning. I found more blueberries."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Thanks. Fresh fruits tricky to carry around, so we don't get to have that as much as some other things."

[not_only]

"Well, Terraria fruit keeps forever as long as it's miniaturized. But there aren't very many kinds of Terraria fruit. Mostly it's blueberries."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh, good to know! Not that that should surprise me, Terrarian miniaturization seems endlessly convenient."

[not_only]

"It is one of the nice things about Terraria."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah, no kidding."

[not_only]

"When do you think the calibrator will be finished?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"...It probably actually did a few minutes ago, I just wasn't in a huge hurry to leave the instant minute it was done."

[not_only]

Shrug. "Well, when do you want to go get it, then?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Once Edie's finished her morning run and had something to eat."

[not_only]

He nods.

[whatamithinking]

And eventually Edie will come inside. She pulls a water bottle out of the space-folding bag and then makes a beeline for the blueberries.

[not_only]

Sivath smiles slightly in greeting and then goes back to designing houses in his head.

[whatamithinking]

After she's eaten, she'll disappear briefly to her room to change into clothes less suited to running. When she emerges, she says, "I'm ready to go. Time to go pick up the calibrator?"