cape_kore | video/action ❆ day 161

[The feed flickers on to a view of the library. And Meja, sitting at a table, with a big book out in front of her. It appears to be a book about plants, hazarding from the pictures visible on the video feed. Laying on Meja's shoulder is a white rat, who appears to be sleeping. Her armor is glamoured into a dark blue coat.]

I don't suppose anyone's been poking around the lab machines, as of late? Some of the plants in hydroponics are getting quite large, and I've been curious about food applications since I started. Unless we'd like to completely depend on random chance in the cafeteria. It was suggested to me that we should test the plants properly, to see if they're edible, but I'm terrible with anything mechanical.

Is anyone interested? I should mention that if this work also includes testing machines, it will be dangerous and should not be undertaken lightly. I can heal wounds, if it comes to that, but I'd like to exercise as much caution as we're able to, here.

[She smiles.]

Tusen takk.

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I'd be game for testing.

[She figures it should go without saying, at this point, that Meja has her help if she wants it, but she's speaking up all the same.]

It's been awhile, and I'm a little rusty, but I should remember how to use most of it, unless some of the equipment is entirely foreign. I was kind of a science nerd in college. Biologist, actually.

[Meja tries not to look surprised. She mostly succeeds. It's a pleasant surprise. Still, Anita doesn't really look like the scientific type.]

I'd appreciate it. When I was growing up, the most high-tech things in town were the nuclear decontamination units. And I wasn't exactly allowed near them.

[No unauthorized personnel had been. Considering a possible side effect of using them was contamination, everyone had been happy to comply.]

We shouldn't need anything too fancy, I don't think.

Between the two of us, I'm sure we can fumble our way through.

[They're both smart, resourceful women. She has no doubt that they can adapt.]

Here's hoping neither one of us loses any extremities in the process.

[She chuckles wryly, nodding.]

Don't worry. Extremities I can do, if one of us happens to lose an arm or worse. Not that the process will be pleasant, but it won't be hopeless.

[A Valkyrie can recover from anything other than the specific combination that kills them. Sometimes it takes a while, but they do eventually. Healing yourself back from being crushed? Not. Fun.]

Even if that's fixable for you?

[She winces, the mental image being less than pleasant.]

I've seen severed arms before. Not a good time. Though those were animate. Crawling around all on their own, along with the rest of the...

[She gestures vaguely, dismissive.]

The pieces.

[It's an awful mental image, but it's an even worse thing to go through. Luckily, Meja hasn't had to heal an entire arm. Just a finger or two, and a toe.]

Ja. Killing a Valkyrie, you have to be very... specific, in what you do. [And she's not going to elaborate more on the network. Juuust in case.] Otherwise, we can heal. It might simply take a long time, depending on the injury. But we're patient. Well... most of us are.

[Eloise is a force unto herself.]

But, no crawling limbs. Thankfully.

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