Library, Saturday, August 7

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Henry never went back to his apartment Saturday night; the couch in his office was a perfectly decent place to sleep.

And, when he looked out the window and saw some of the things across the landscape, he was pretty sure he'd made the right choice. There were pterodactyls out there.

After making what he suspected would be the first of many pots of coffee, Henry set up the research tables with the books that seemed like they'd been most useful the day before, then settled down with some of the back library files about old invasions open in front of him. He wasn't sure if it'd teach him anything new, but it was something to do.

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Re: Mod the Library - Research [8/07]

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"I don't need a break," Anemone grumbled, rubbing at her eyes. "If I only had a brain."

"It's obvious," she continued, annoyed with herself for not seeing it earlier. "If you think about it, I mean."

"Fandom Island is a fulcrum, right? A place for the various realities to pivot around, intersecting all of them. But what keeps these realities from tipping more to one direction or another, and putting more weight on the island? What keeps the whole thing spinning without sending the other worlds out of wack?"

"'Quantum: the minimum unit of any physical entity involved in an interaction,'" she recited, tapping a sketch in her notebook, a section of the machinery that she'd drawn while laying on the floor yesterday. "The quantum balancer. The interactions are all wrong. The blueprints say it should be right here."

Re: Mod the Library - Research [8/07]

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It took Henry a moment to make sense of that. "So it's like one of the pieces, one of the parts that makes the island work, just got lost? Any chance we can make a new one?"

Re: Mod the Library - Research [8/07]

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"The bit that keeps in check how Fandom interacts with the realities around it," Anemone confirmed, nodding. "At least, that's my understanding of how it works. How to make one...I have no idea."

Re: Mod the Library - Research [8/07]

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"That's still progress," Henry said, sounding encouraged. "Where there's progress, there's hope."

Or so his doctors kept telling him.

Re: Mod the Library - Research [8/07]

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"That's what people keep telling me, although I think it's morbidly funny when they say that," Anemone agreed. "Do you know the meaning behind an anemone flower?"

Re: Mod the Library - Research [8/07]

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"In the Victorian language thing?" Henry clarified. "Nope. I've read it but it falls right out of my head, I'm afraid."

Re: Mod the Library - Research [8/07]

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"It's the windflower, the 'death of hope,'" she replied. "I prefer to think of it as that I'm so stubborn, that when I set my mind to it, people don't have a hope of getting what they want."

Re: Mod the Library - Research [8/07]

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"In that case," Henry said, "whatever broke the doodad under the island should be running scared."

He wasn't sure he believed it. But he wanted to make somebody smile.