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[valkywhee]

[Nora's holding her comm like she's grabbing someone's lapels, and the resulting angle is weird, but it doesn't hide that she's looking a bit. Intense at the moment.]

Where can I get a bunch of Lightning Dus--uh, electricity in a hurry? It's important.

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[bothbarrels]

[ North puts on his dadliest tone to explain this to her. It works on Theta, so it ought to work on her. ]

I'm sorry, but whoever told you that was telling you lies. Electricity is energy. It's like the same thing that makes it so you can move, or think, but it's made by power plants instead of your body.

[valkywhee]

[Nora can tell when she's being patronized.]

Electricity comes from Lightning Dust, which is refined from raw Dust to make it safe to handle. I don't know where they get it here, but where I'm from, there are big deposits of it near the north pole.

[She's actually completely right...if she were at home.]

[bothbarrels]

[ Poor Nora. She sounds delusional. ]

Maybe it's just the different physics between worlds, then.

[ Also, completely right, even though he's just trying to get this to not become a "nuh-uh!" "yes-huh!" kind of argument. ]

Where I'm from, and here as well, I think, electricity is made by getting potential energy to turn into kinetic energy in power plants. Then it runs through wires.

[valkywhee]

[She's not really following, but she does get the takeaway of "there's no Lightning Dust available," which is good enough by Nora standards.]

Okay, so how do you get electricity in this weird universe, then?

[bothbarrels]

Power outlets. You know when you want to listen to music and you plug your stereo into the wall? That runs on electricity coming through the wire.

[valkywhee]

Nnnnnno? If something runs down, you put in a fresh Lightning Dust crystal.

[Duh?]

But I guess that explains all those cords lying around. Big tripping hazard, if you ask me.

[bothbarrels]

Believe me, that's what it does. You can try me if you like.

Just don't put anything besides a cord in the wall.

[valkywhee]

I don't even wanna stick those cords in, why would I bother with anything else?

[bothbarrels]

It's just something to remember.

[valkywhee]

[Condescension meter is spiking again.]

Ughhhhh.

[bothbarrels]

[ That's quite a...noise...Nora just made. ]

You sound disappointed.

[valkywhee]

You don't have to be so patronizing.

[She doesn't need a dad! She needs an electrical main to grab!]

[bothbarrels]

I...?

[ North scratches his cheek and lets out a sharp exhale. ]

I certainly don't mean to be. It's just you seem to be unclear on the way it works and the danger if you were to interact with it.

[valkywhee]

I know what electricity does!

[BEAST MODE, that's what.]

[bothbarrels]

All right. That's good to know.