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[mia_j]

Could you fix this for me?

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[touchingdarkness]

....I have a glue-gun and a hammer. If it can't be fixed with one of those two things... I can't fix it.

[mia_j]

[Mia studies the big broken post on the cat perch]

Well that might work...

[touchingdarkness]

Okay... let me go get the hammer and glue gun.

[She returns with them, and some zip-ties]

[mia_j]

Thanks Anna. Not sure how Chloe did this...

[w_zimmerman]

Well, no promises, but I can certainly try. What's going on?

[twelve_not_fourteen]

Yes.

[mia_j]

It's my tablet. I dropped it and now it won't turn on.

[She hands him a tablet that indeed seems to refuse to turn on.]

[mia_j]

It's my favorite blaster. There's this slight delay when I fire that wasn't there before I put in a new power pack. [She hands a well-loved blaster carefully over to him, hopeful he can do what he says]

[w_zimmerman]

[Will stares at it blankly for a moment. He would have had an easier time if someone had presented him with a gunman who needed to be talked down, or an injured pteranodon. A broken tablet is really not his area of expertise.

So he looks a little lost for a moment, then he perks up and pulls out his phone.]

My friend Henry will know how to fix it. I'll just text him really quick.

[mia_j]

Thanks. Is he... discreet?

[touchingdarkness]

Animals are kind of amazing at how they can break things so well.

[mia_j]

Yeah... I mean, it might've been Jaida...

[Uh huh, Mia]

[w_zimmerman]

[Will momentarily looks like that's one of the more amusing questions he's heard in awhile, but he doesn't laugh, just smiles and nods.]

Don't worry. The contents of your hard drive are safe with us...

[mia_j]

They'd better be.

So what do you do, if you don't fix tablets for strangers?

[touchingdarkness]

[That gets an eyebrow raise]

The dog broke the cat tree?

[mistressery]

I could. [Is that an energy weapon, or does it just look like one? Either way, easy peasy.] What's in it for me?

[w_zimmerman]

I work for a private consulting firm.

[He's sending texts back and forth as he gives that oh-so-detailed answer so, conveniently, he doesn't have to make eye-contact.]

[jafs]

I will do what I can. I have to leave for the airport in a bit.

[mia_j]

Could've been... She chews on things every now and then.

[mia_j]

[small shrug] What would you like?

[mia_j]

[Normally she might not press, but... well, she's bored.]

What kind of consulting?

[Her tone shows she knows that 'private consulting firm' can cover a whole host of things.]

[mia_j]

[Her expression falls, whatever she's holding is forgotten] You have to leave for the airport? Where are you going?

[w_zimmerman]

We dabble in this and that, but the main focus of our research is in genetics and evolution.

[He keeps his eye on the phone, fiddling with the tablet.]

Henry says we may just need to perform a factory reset.

[mistressery]

The whole universe. [Joking.]

I don't accept any form of currency, so that's right out.

[Come to think of it, negotiations are only going to slow down this repair.]

I'll just fix it for now.

[mia_j]

[Her eyebrows raise, impressed.] You're a biologist? Geneticist?

[She makes a face and mutters about cheap tablets] I'll lose all my data that way.