applechemist | Not Again | Catch All for Steph

[ It doesn't seem to be doing anything but melting the wires. ]

Am I doing it wrong?

Uh...

Maybe, turn it?

[ She... tries turning it. But I looked it up and you're supposed to like add... soldering stuff... So... ]

Hmm... Maybe there are instructions somewhere!

[ STEPH IS JUST GOING TO

START LOOKING FOR AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL ]

[ Escha is going to keep poking the wires with the soldering stuff.

She jumps and lets out a quick shriek when it sparks. and then. keeps going. ]

Haha.

Remember! Safety first!

[ she is just throwing stuff around while looking ]

Yes, safety first!

[ she has GLOVES what more do you WANT? Protective eyewear????? jeez. ]

Why are there no soldering manuals here...

I guess they assume we know how to use this kind of stuff. Like the washing machines.

I guess... oh. Where did you find that? Maybe there's something else there that might go with it.

[ She points over to a wall where a bunch of other power tools are hanging! Beside it is a pile of loose junk, which may or may not have some papers buried in it. ]

[ she just nyooms there ]

We are gonna solder, Escha.

Yeah!

[ she's glad they're both invested in this extremely important venture that is in no way a distraction coping method. and meanwhile she's... starting to poke at other metal scraps laying around with the iron. haha. melty. ]

[ sometimes melting metal... good for the soul...

but she finds solder... does she know what it is? no. but she found it. ]

This is an inconvenient time for someone who knows how all this works to not be here.

Edited 2020-07-22 15:54 (UTC)

[ Escha... Pauses for a moment in the middle of melting some miscellaneous gears together. ]

... Yeah.

[ she glances at escha, and pulls out some papers to look through. ]

You okay?

Yeah.

I mean... I have to be.

You don't have to be anything except what you're feeling.

[ ... ]

But I get it.

[ she shakes her head. ]

Everyone keeps saying that we're saving everyone.

If Dick is... Gone... Then I have to focus on believing that. So that's what I'm doing.

... we're all on the same team now, at least. Which solves one of the major problems we were having.

[ the only one team can win thing. ]

So from here, we can only go up!

[ or else ]

That definitely makes the numbers a little easier to work with.

Even in a worst-case scenario.

... Which I'm trying not to think about.

... we are definitely not doing the worst-case scenario.

[ she puts the papers down. ]

We're gonna kick that snake's ass so hard we're going to get in trouble for animal abuse.

Yeah...!

[ she's still very much trying to. downplay her trauma and anxiety right now, so she puffs up a bit. ]

I'm ready to fight that stupid snake! It doesn't count as animal abuse if it's a monster.

Right! Let's make purses out of it!

[ isn't snakeskin stuff popular? she does not know. ]

[ Escha is not familiar with snakeskin things? ... but she is familiar with making Anything out of Anything! ]

I bet it has powerful traits...

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