simurgh, meet your nemesis

[mxglam]

So Glam tests their power some more, and then has a meeting with Piggot where they explain the Siberian. She listens carefully, then asks them not to demonstrate, and says she will communicate that to the appropriate people. That takes a while, and then Lorica is asked to confirm this, and then Glam is asked to demonstrate to very few people with very high clearance.

This should not get out, it would be a PR nightmare, but if the Sibarian copy does what it looks like it does, its help will be invaluable in the upcoming Endbringer fights. When Glam decides to use that power, the story will be that a power copier has grabbed the Siberian's and is using it against the Endbringer, that people should not panic, and that she is an ally. Glam mentions, since they're all being so cooperative about telling everyone on the comms, that the Siberian copy doesn't have to look like the original, so people can know whether to panic or not based on her shape.

That leaves, of course, Glam's own willingness to face the Slaughterhouse Nine. Even if they don't know that Siberian is them, they will likely cause problems, and this will need to be carefully planned.

Careful plans tend not to survive contact with reality, and that is doubly true when the next Endbringer attack happens only two months and nine days after the previous one.

Not that it would matter much: Glam is definitely not going to a Simurgh fight, not yet.

Comments

[msglam]

"I know, this was me trying to subtly nudge you into becoming socially closer to them."

[thinkering]

"Why? I thought I was managing okay captaining with my current level of interaction."

[msglam]

"...because they're nice?" she tries again.

[thinkering]

"Okay, but... if that were a sufficient reason for me I would have done it already."

[msglam]

"I guess," she sighs.

[thinkering]

"I do quite like Rewind compared to most people I meet, but this is significantly because she's receptive to ideas like 'liase with paramedics', and on an absolute scale I consider that kind of thing to be very bare-minimum standard. If I felt the need to make more friends I'd make friends with her, sort of like if I lived in the Colonial era and wanted friends I would find the nearest abolitionist."

[msglam]

"That... is an interesting comparison. Do you still consider it 'weird' if I take that as a compliment?"

[thinkering]

"You may feel free to take that as a compliment."

[msglam]

She giggles. "Why did you find it weird the first time I said it?"

[thinkering]

"I thought you were reading too much into it."

[msglam]

"Hmm, I think I was reading exactly the correct amount, eye ee I am a nice person to interact with according to your personal estimation."

[thinkering]

"Then perhaps I was wrong."

[msglam]

Grin. "I love you."

[thinkering]

"I love you too."

[peterxy]

Rewind is:

patrolling.

[alicornucopia]

Windflower is:

in some bizarre technical sense, supervising her, because Windflower isn't probationary and Rewind is.

[peterxy]

Yeah, that's a thing. Also, Rewind is kind of annoyed at still having to patrol but whatever.

"They should get us flying tinker suits or something."

[alicornucopia]

"Lorica makes one for her and one for her dad," nods Windflower. "She could do more, probably."

[peterxy]

"I wonder why she doesn't. We should ask. Running around on feet is just too lame."

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah."

[peterxy]

Patrol patrol.

[alicornucopia]

Patrol patrol patrol.

[msecho]

The two of them are pinged on the comm.

"Hey guys, someone reported a disturbance on," and she gives them an address, "and you two are the closest, can you go check it out?"

[alicornucopia]

"What kind of disturbance?" asks Windflower, checking the nearest street sign to see which way to go.

[msecho]

"Something like fighting, they weren't very clear."