brockton bay, meet glam

[mxglam]

It's the anniversary. Glam would very much not like to celebrate.

It’s their last day on Winslow High - they’re being transferred to Arcadia on Monday - and also their last day without a patrol schedule assigned.

And the PRT released a small announcement on its website about Glam joining the Wards. Now their wiki page doesn’t get erased, of course - they’re no longer speculative. They wonder what it’s got on them.

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[peterxy]

It twitches a bit more than the previous time.

[thinkering]

Higher bleep. "Your ball."

[peterxy]

Shoots, exactly as fast as the first time.

[thinkering]

Bleep. "All right, gimme a minute..."

When Windflower has come back from the bathroom:

"Your ball, go."

[mxglam]

It goes, faster than all the previous times, losing momentum before hitting a wall but not enough that it doesn't bounce off it and goes a ways towards the opposite wall.

[thinkering]

High bleep.

"Real ball go."

[mxglam]

...it rolls a tad.

[thinkering]

"Okay, I'm going to tell Windflower to duck under the table in case you fling one too hard at a wall. ...Real ball go."

[mxglam]

The robots might notice it rolling a little bit more, but it's little enough that it might just be random fluctuations in air currents or some such.

[thinkering]

"Your ball go."

[mxglam]

It cracks in two when it hits the wall.

[thinkering]

Lorica snorts. The bot whistles very high indeed. "You broke it. Can you put it back without video?"

[mxglam]

"Yeah."

It's there.

[thinkering]

Ding! goes the robot.

"Now I'm going to tell her nothing's going to happen while we go on some conversational tangent. Your ball go."

[mxglam]

It goes! Slower than the second time she told their ball to go after Windflower was around, but faster than the third.

[thinkering]

Bleep.

"Real ball go."

[mxglam]

Real ball: no go.

[thinkering]

"And now I'm going to tell her to step out of the room for some control data. Real ball go."

[mxglam]

Rolls a tiny bit, the least it's rolled so far other than the times it just twitched.

[thinkering]

"Your ball go."

[mxglam]

Goes exactly as much as the very first time she asked their ball to go.

[thinkering]

"Okay, she's back now," Lorica lies. "Expecting, quote, 'more of the same'. Your ball go."

[mxglam]

Goes slightly faster than it just did, not as fast as when Windflower had actually been there and been told to expect more of the same.

[thinkering]

Windflower actually returns to the room. "Told her we're going to do the hovering thing, like your suit."

[mxglam]

"And I'm supposed to still make it slide?"