Artifact Restoration, Tuesday 2nd Period

[jedigrammarians]

The Danger Shop did not resemble the workshop today, instead looking like some kind of large games room, and Aphra was lounging casually in a way that implied that she certainly hadn't been beating on the controls not thirty seconds before.

"Metaphor time!" Aphra said, far, far, too cheerfully. "Sometime fixing an artifact you've found is more like putting together a puzzle where you not only don't have a picture on the box, but you have no box, and you're not sure you have all the pieces, and there are pieces of something else there too, and halfway through you realise you've been putting it together wrong because it's actually a completely different kind of puzzle. Then it explodes."

She gestured to the table in the middle of the room, which was indeed piled high with a giant heap of puzzle pieces. "So you'll be doing that today. Without that exploding part." Probably.

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Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[giveherahand]

"Do you think she's kidding about the not exploding part?" Mara asked suspiciously.

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[justice_undone]

"I don't think she is allowed to kill us."

If this was a joke there was nothing in Breq's expression that said so.

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[giveherahand]

"There's probably a lot of paperwork," Mara decided.

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[justice_undone]

"I don't think our teacher is the kind of person who appreciates paper work," Breq replied.

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[giveherahand]

"Me either," Mara said, reaching for some pieces as well. "Should we divide out by color or size, maybe?"

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[justice_undone]

Breq looked att the pieces, turning one of them around. "By colour," she decided, her focus now on the task.

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[giveherahand]

"There seems to be a lot of brown," Mara observed after a while.

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[justice_undone]

"You're right. We need to find different shades of brown," Breq replied, comparing two pieces.

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[giveherahand]

Mara nodded. "Put a pile of things that don't look like they belong with the browns, then put the browns together and see how it looks?"

Look, a plan!

Re: Solve the Puzzle - AR [05]

[justice_undone]

"That works. I look for the brown ones, and you find the other ones?" Breq suggested.