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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

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[neversmall]

[ ...the flying machine is going to find her now, is that it?

Well. Let's not think too much of the military applications of this sort of technology, and how difficult it would be to hide from something that can see you from the air and report back to someone beyond your range.

...nope. She's thinking about it. She's definitely... thinking about it. And as she's curious to determine the type of abilities the flying machine has, she doesn't leave the theater to make it easier for it to find her.

It manages to find her anyway. Through the wall.

Well.

That's something.

Nina's very glad they're not fighting a war here.

Redwing hovers around her with the note between its... feet? Hands? ...metal brackets? What a fascinating thing! And Nina can't help but - somewhat ludicrously, since she did just see the drone fly through the doors, wave her hand slowly above it as if checking for strings. No strings. Okay.

A little cautiously, Nina reaches out to take the note. She sees the doodle of the waffle first and smiles at it. Then the whatever-it-is-that's-in-their-head-that-translates-words works its magic and she reads Sam's message.

Oh, he can see her? She looks up, smiles, and waves at Redwing.

Fortunately, there are some pencils involved with the whole set-building thing she's doing, so she snags one, flips the paper over, and writes:

'Hello, Sam! Redwing is very cute. I have never seen anything like him before. The pictures are very fun. Thank you for sharing with me all the ways they can be used! - Nina.' There is a small :) to accompany it, as she is just basically copying from the emojis she sees on the phone. The note is then placed in Redwings... metal... pinions... what? and Nina returns her attention to the children who want very badly to touch the drone but are not tall enough. ]

[unclesam]

[ Yeah, Redwing is a bit of a walking privacy violating if Sam wants to abuse him. But Nina's also got the right idea - after all, Sam mainly uses the drone as mission backup. Incredibly helpful to figure out how many people are gonna be shooting at you before you walk into the room.

For now, Redwing flies a fast circle around Nina and the kids, does a looping, and then zooms off as fast as he'd appeared, tracking back to Sam to deliver the response.

Redwing doesn't return, but Sam laughs reading the message, and immediately texts Nina: ]

alright, you are officially my favorite person on this planet
🤩💐🧇👸

[neversmall]

[ Saints, what an (unmerited?) compliment! Sam's enthusiasm is so genuine and appealing, and it's so strange to be Received as she is by... anyone, but especially by someone who is not a Grisha. Granted, she is still curating the Nina Experience (tm) carefully, and she usually uses honey rather than vinegar, but this is still... she's not sure how to deal with this, exactly? It's so foreign to her experience?

So she just shakes her head and responds with gleeful acceptance: Yes, she is the winner, and yes, so is he for having the good taste to proclaim that she is the winner; also, he's pretty neat himself. ]

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