#baronyofthesilverwolf

"Do you think you could DO that?" both brows up, not in mockery but surprise and yes, a bit impressed

"Sure!"

"Wudlig has been showin' me about alchemy - and, like, you ever feel like you know you know something, even if you don't know it?"

"Like the wisp!"

"It's really just chemistry, but... like, on crack. You take science, and then dial it up and add chaos. And chaos is a kind of science, too - fractals and butterflies and all that Jeff Goldblum drek..."

"Yeah, how crazy was that" At the wisp mention "It's like when Art showed his dictum. " They keep walking "Oh now Jeff Goldblum I get .." She mimics "Life..uh life finds a way"

"Exactly!"

"Now, you wanna talk about reckless cheapskates..."

A tilt of her head . Listening

"No redundancies, single-point IT, no analog failsafes..."

"I mean, no wonder Hammon was in a third-world country, OSHA woulda stomped all over that hot mess..."

"Oh, wait... that sounds like... hey wait couldn't that kill the user?"

"Ehhhhhhh, nothing is perfect."

"Your kith is kind of scary. You know that right?" but she smiles a touch

"Scary? Me, nah."

"Oh! Maybe I could make one color of fire sticky!"

"That's napalm" She says, not sure thistle ISN't scary but not arguing the point

A wild, toothy grin. "Yeah!"

A smile back "Rock on. I think it would be almost superheroic to have a different setting for each color"

"Would need a way to hold and release the different additives.... plus a pack to source the main fuel... " Gwen can SEE the wheels turning.

"Kind of like a ghost buster?"

Gleam!

"Ohhhhh...."

"oh?"

"Ghostbusters are cool. Holtzmann's my favorite."

"Holtzmann? Wait from the 2016 one? " She realizes their friendship maybe tested in way she hadn't expected

Art has flopped back onto the grass on his back, and is gazing up at the stars. Turns out you can see a lot of stars on a night with no moon.

Eventually, an uber will show up and cart him away. Until then, he is rapt.

Occasionally rubbing his wrist - still a bit sore.

Briar has edged back over and is watching them clean up the bodies with a slight look of dismay. So much waste.

She was moving them along! Hurumph ..and so she does to get them to the hold

"Oh, sure! It wasn't drek, yeah? I bet Holtzmann's a nocker, too."

"I ...didn't like it. ' she admits "liked Afterlife though"

"though Holtzmann was the best part of the 2016 movie"

"Well, not everybody has good taste in movies." That verges on amiable.

"No they do not" She agrees, but not in the way the nocker probably thinks . She smiles

"I wonder if Fornax would like movies?"

"Could get him started on some midnight classics..."

"Heck, he'd be a great movie buddy. Go to one of those surround sound whatcha callit ones with the really good speakers?"

"Oh yeah. Art still needs to catch up on so many things. W haven't even started the Re-Animator..."

"Don't make him hide behind the blankets" She says

"Art prefers hard sci-fi or pure fantasy. Not so much the messier genres."

"Has he seen the Martian ? I hear it's pretty hard fact based Sci Fi"

"He hasn't! I'll put it on the list."

"Good. I haven't seen it and this sounds like a good way for me to horn in" A smile

"What? (*&&^%, am I gonna have to draft YOU a lesson plan, too?"

"Next, you're gonna say you haven't seen Conan or Krull..."

"Or, grassnuts, Beastmaster."

"Beast master?" Confusion

She SNORTS. "Oh yeah, massive education required."