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[Out of habit, her greeting starts with a sigh. Hey, for a long time the only person who called her was Sylens, and it really set a tone for phone conversations. Be glad it's just a sigh.]

What do you need?

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I let her borrow mine last night. If she goes to Salamander, here's hoping she can get a fair one.

For what it's worth, Donatello takes some pride in making things for us. All of those daggers I enchanted are his work. I'd already talked to him about making one for her.

Speaking of Donatello, be mindful about starting a scan when he’s at the center of your attention. His gear has some kind of encryption against connections, which is good, but I keep catching it by accident and I think it’s logging scan attempts.

I suppose now's an awkward time to mention that my translation spell works on ciphers as well.

Not that it does me a whole lot of good. Just because I can read it, it doesn't mean I understand it.

To be up front about it, I’m not trying to access his data. But this encryption is about preventing access in the first place. There were people who used to connect to his tech to override and steal control of it.

I'll apologize to him, then.

Wait, did you already get into it?

I scanned him yesterday and got curious when it spat out a load of gibberish!

[She just starts laughing.]

That must have been interesting. Well done.

Hopefully he doesn't take it too personally. He knows how limited the results can be.

If he does, just point him at me. Tell him I didn't go over the scans well enough.

I think that might make it worse. He doesn't appreciate misdirection. He doesn't even like stage magic because it's about trickery and making people think that there's magic being done.

It's probably not really wrong. I'm certain I didn't go over it as well as GAIA would have.

All encryptions can be broken, given enough time and attention. There's just a point where we have to decide whether it's worth it.

And, really, knowing how his technology is put together isn't worth it, is it?

I was going to see what the components of his staff were, but - you're right. Not worth it.

Anyway. At this point I'm kind of just playing with things to see how it all fits together and what I can do with it.

Thank you, again, for the Focus.

Of course. You're already putting it to good use. I'll try to keep you up to date if I get fresh information on local herbs, too.

Appreciated. We probably should've been working together on this beforehand, it just didn't occur to me until earlier.

We talked. We didn't have common terms yet.

Less an issue now, at least.

And we'll be better at collecting them.

True. Though, depending on how free Cricket is with their boon, that might not be quite as necessary. We'll see if they play stingy or not.

Probably better to assume we won’t see much from them.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worst.

Some people don't accept that. I say something along those lines and get a lecture. It's not like I'm saying that we can't ever expect anything from anyone, though. Just that we shouldn't base our plans off of an expectation of generosity.

Edited 2023-06-11 13:51 (UTC)

We paid attention in the voting scenario. And it’s fine, because we know how to provide for ourselves.

Right. Both the vote and the popularity contest, where you got me my frog. While we're not the most hated, or least thought of, team, we're hardly the most beloved.

...Are you alone right now?

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