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[stormandwind]

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[perdix]

They look really cool now though. Better this way than they were as crayons.

A Roomba? it's a robot vacuum cleaner.

[For that one, he sends her a picture.]

And it's for an art project.

[stormandwind]

Assume I don't know half of the words you're using. I think your language may be further removed from mine than I realized. Robot and vacuum are new as well.

I have a forge in my cabin, and I can also serve as a living furnace when I'm not too feverish to control it. I'll help with your project later. [That, and maybe cookies, are the thanks he's likely to get for looking after Chime for her.]

[perdix]

[Um...]

A vacuum's a thing that cleans. This one moves around on its own. She likes riding on it.

I think I'm gonna break it instead of melting it down.

[stormandwind]

Cleans what? Floors? You can't do that yourself? [Sorry, Tris is a little judgmental about household chores.] I suppose it's good that Chime enjoys it.

I'm glad her glass is being put to use. I'd like to see, once you're finished.

[perdix]

Modern conveniences, yo.

Besides, I bet you use magic to do tons of shit you could do yourself.

[stormandwind]

We don't have devices like that in my world.

I don't use magic to cook or clean or do any everyday housework. I once lifted myself to the top of a tower with winds, but that was an experiment. Ordinarily I walk up the stairs just like anybody else. [Tris hates stairs, but she does use them.] I use breezes to keep cool when it's hot out, but I couldn't do that without magic.

[perdix]

Haha it's called a fan though.

[stormandwind]

Waving a fan isn't nearly as effective as my breezes.

[perdix]

Whatever yo I'm from New Mexico, you don't know from hot until you've been to ABQ.

Where we have electricity and stuff like air conditioning. Way better than breezes.

[stormandwind]

I've handled more heat than any non-mage could, I just hate being stuck sitting in it.

And I have more electricity than I know what to do with. [Tris maaaaay have lost enough control to start sending off small, harmless sparks. This fever is not going well. She flips to video for just a moment, a tiny bit of lightning crackling over her hair, and then back to text.] How do you condition air?

[perdix]

By cooling it off. There's a machine.

[stormandwind]

Of course. You have machines for nearly everything, don't you? [Which is an adjustment, and all of the advanced sciences are going to be a big challenge for her. One that she is too tired to even think about tackling right now.]

[perdix]

So what? That's not a bad thing.

[stormandwind]

No, just something I don't understand at all yet. I want to know how electricity works, for instance.

[perdix]

Yeah IDK, I know there's lightning and magnets involved. And. current.

[stormandwind]

The lightning is why I'm interested.

And what in Mila's name does IDK mean? [Someone is apparently exasperated with being clueless about vocabulary.]

[perdix]

I don't know?

[stormandwind]

If you don't know then why are you [and then her fever-addled brain catches up, much more slowly than it would have were she well, but Tris doesn't bother getting rid of what she started to write.]

Is that often done in your world, abbreviating things and assuming your meaning is common knowledge?

[perdix]

Y

[He doesn't exactly joke a lot these days -- but it feels safer, somehow, behind a keyboard. He might even smile a little on his end.]

[stormandwind]

[Tris snorts in something halfway between exasperation and amusement.]

Are all of them as self explanatory as that one? If not, I suppose I have an interesting guessing game to look forward to.

[perdix]

IDK probably? I can't think of any others right now.