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"Not at all. Is this it?" Richard cranes his head over the central table. "Or... are they it, should I say? That's ingenious, the division of... are those radio transmitters?"
"Um, yeah. Please don't touch i-i-it— um, you too, Lottie, they're a little bit delicate— no offense—"
"I didn't try to touch it," you say (though you did shuffle up behind Richard). "Geez. These things are supposed to be the siphon? They look like talky-talkies." Or whatever Rudy had. You can't remember anymore.
"Um—"
"Why don't you give her the layman version?" Richard prompts.
"Um, okay, I-I-I can... yeah. So you were thinking you wanted to suck in all the juice from exploding Headspace? Right?" Gil sounds tentative. You nod. "Um, okay, good. So... that's a lot of juice, and you have to do i-it fast, and it's all ambient, not direct from the source. So you can't just stick a nozzle in, and you can't... i-i-it wouldn't be possible to haul around a big enough store for all that. I-I-I-It'd be the size of the whole shed. So I-I was messing around with, um... mini-siphons." He picks up a talky-talky and turns it around. "They have suction cups, see? I-I-I-If you stick them all around Headspace before you blow it up, each of them can capture a portion of the razzle-dazzle, and port it back remote—" He taps the antenna at the top. "—to a central store somewhere else. Across manses, I-I'm hoping. ...I-I-Is that layman enough?"
"Well, I'm more of a lay-young lady, I think, but... you think I put those everywhere, then they catch the Law and put it all in one place somewhere else?"
Gil looks relieved. "Yeah!"
"Well, um, that sounds like a good idea." Probably. You don't really know anything about this stuff, but you trust Gil to have good ideas. "Good job! Are you all done?"
"Um... these are working, sort of, but I-I need some time to refine... is there time for that? Do you think?"
"You'll be fine," Richard says. "Of course, if you'd like a second pair of hands, I can—"
Gil looks at you for help. Again. At least this time he has eyes.
(Choices next.)
