What a day this has been, what a rare mood I'm in...
Last night, Enzo returned to his dorm at the end of an amazing spare cycle; Hugh took one look at his expression and said that if Enzo were older, he'd know exactly how he'd spent his day
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The cry of professors and scientists abound!
SCIENCE!
That marvel among marvels in the universe!
SCI- Huh?
After the bar had been de-steampunk-ified, Welman had actually put away the exo-suit for now, remembering - of course - that it was still a semi-surprise AND he wanted it kept under observation to be sure that a rogue loop data-stream didn't somehow cause a relapse into the potbelly mech-suit again. This had once again allowed the null to explore the nuances of the bar in his 'birthday suit'. Now, he had come upon Enzo, who was...hmmm.
He had an untouched energy shake. Untouched, we say. And he was smiling. Therefore, Welman slid on by and said...
"Okay, I know all the signs, but they're in the wrong order. What's going on, Enzo?"
The smile seemed like a good thing, but the lack of apparent appetite? That was a bit off. This required an examination of parental proportions.
Therefore...SCIENCE!
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"Well, I do notice that something new is added, and this doesn't sound like normal hijinx. What happened?"
Prepare for detonation in 3...2...1...
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Feel free to asplode; Enzo is doing so internally.
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Imagine a null looking off to the side, as if reassured, and giving off a nod...right before shaking its 'head' and seemingly glaring right at the kid. Yes, you shocked the dad. Dunno if there's a prize, but he's STILL flabbergasted, so that's gotta count for something.
"Pause, backslash, and reload that statement. Give it to me slow and easy...and then explain in more detail, just to be sure I heard that right."
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"She said she wants to be my girlfriend! We were talking about... stuff... and she asked me if I wanted her to be, an' I said yes, an' she said yes..."
He makes it sound like it happened a lot more easily than it did.
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"What? Just as easy as that?"
Enzo DID have a history folder of leaving out certain details for things.
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He fidgets a little. "...once we said it, yeah." That much is true; besides all the wonderfulness, it was a huge relief to get everything out in the open. "I mean... I was scared she'd think I was too young... but she said that's okay 'cause she's not really as old as she is." (Talk about your illogical statements, but you know what he means.) He laughs. "We're both too young for each other."
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"Funny, and all this time, I heard that two wrongs don't make a right. Shows what they know."
The true answer is that FOUR wrongs squared may lead to a right, assuming you use the proper formula.
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"But she was scared I woulda met someone else at the Academy, and, I dunno, I guess maybe I might've if I hadn't already met her." That old 'there are no other girls' line might be dreadfully trite, but it's about as close as you're going to get to Enzo's feelings on this matter.
"Oh, guess what? We made a Scientific Discovery!" Dad oughta like that one.
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"Really? What did you discover? I'm all ears...well, you know."
We know you'd be all ears if you figured out the morphic process for it, Welman, you nutty professor, you.
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"If sprite spit touches User spit, it zaps the same as if we eat each other's food."
Go on, guess what experiment determined that.
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"That seems to be the common theme of what happens when two worlds meet on such a fundamental level."
TRANSLATION: There's more than ONE WAY to make sparks fly, but this one's more fun!
"Dedicated alot of research to this, did you?"
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He sort of muttered that, then loudly ahem'd as if to cover it up...which was the point.
"And...your conclusion?"
Possibly something other than 'Alphanumeric!'?
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In other words, they've got a Safe Mode.
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