Library, Monday

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Tip came into the library after her workshop, still feeling all sunwarmed and chill. She plopped herself down behind the circulation desk and started idly scrolling through her email.

After about half an hour she started to realize how quiet the stacks were. Suspiciously quiet.

"Do I want to know, Bill?"

Bill gave a little bubbly shrug.

"Yeah. . . . Maybe in a little while."

She wanted to enjoy her chill a little longer, first.

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"Something like that," Shuri said, pulling up a photo that hovered in front of her phone screen.

You know, like normal phones. "This is one that's publicly available."

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“Holy crap, look at your phone.”

Tip was a little jealous, yes.

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"You like it?" Shuri asked, smiling proudly. "I made it."

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Tip nodded. “I definitely want one. My friend back home is an engineer, but he tends to work more on the larger scale. Flying cars, a telecloning booth.... He made a new community out of cornstarch once. It didn’t go well.”

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"Did it rain?" Shuri guessed, wincing.

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"Oh yeah," Tip said. "In his defense, he's not from Earth. But he was also trying to do it for making up for accidentally making a puppy really really large, so . . . it didn't go over super well."

Poor J.Lo. That had been right before they'd decided to visit his people's new homeworld and he ended up arrested for treason. And then elected president.

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Poor guy," Shuri said sympathetically. "But if he took notes, it's still science! You can learn from errors, after all. I learn more from really big ones, myself."

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"I'm not sure if that's how the Boov scientific method works, but yeah, he's totally learned from his mistakes." Tip shrugged with a small smile. "Once he finishes panicking over them."

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"I would love to know how their scientific method works," Shuri said enthusiastically.

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"I'll check," Tip said, shooting off a quick text to J.Lo on her (much less impressive) phone. After a suspiciously short amount of time, considering she hadn't been texting with him already, she got a reply. "He says 'Sames asto humanscience. You tries, you fails, you tries again.'" She rolled her eyes. "And now he's demanding to know if I'm sciencing without him."

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Shuri laughed. "Tell him I would be delighted to science with him. Maybe not on an architecture project."