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[niko_tesla]

A man steps through the door, carrying a box and accompanied by a pigeon

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[ostro_goth]

Teja does know, by now, what electricity is. However, he doesn't know what '5 cents' is.

So he observes the man, and his implements, with interest and curiosity.

[[OOC: We now have four threads!!! But I couldn't resist!]]

[niko_tesla]

Five cents is enough to do a lot of things, in his day, but alas, not enough to rebuild any of his failed labs.

But that's another matter.

He smiles nervously. "Have you ever experienced the cleansing power of electricity?"

[ostro_goth]

"They have big machines that howl, cleaning the corridors?" Teja supplies, baffled.

[niko_tesla]

"No, no--yes, but not that, no," he says, awkwardly. "This is cleansing to the body. We are made of electricity--everything is, it is all around us and passing through us. And if we can direct it, gently, it is very... cleansing. Most pleasant."

[ostro_goth]

"I am not made of electricity, but of flesh!" Teja protests.

Yes, even in this afterlife, his new body seems made flesh.

[niko_tesla]

"There is electricity in living flesh," he says. "The spark of life and the spark of electricity are the same. You would see, if you would be willing to try it--it is a wonderful feeling. Very therapeutic."

[ostro_goth]

"You claim that machine would contain the spark of life?" Teja says. "I am dead -- you would not cause me to be alive with it. What would I have to do so I can apply it to myself."

[niko_tesla]

"Ah, you are dead?" he asks, brow furrowed. "I have never experimented with the dead, not the conventional dead and certainly not the unusual dead of here. But if you sit down, relax and give me your wrist, we can see what it would do."

And here he'd thought he'd already finished the experiment. There are always new variations here, it seems.

[ostro_goth]

Teja does as told, curious.

[niko_tesla]

He cleans the ends of the wires with some rubbing alcohol, and then wraps them in a small bit of cotton that has been dampened with the alcohol.

"This shouldn't hurt," he says. "It doesn't in the living. I want you to tell me how it feels."

[ostro_goth]

"Yes?" Teja says. "You may do it now.

[niko_tesla]

He concentrates, flipping a switch on the device and bringing the tips of the wires to rest very lightly on Teja's wrist.

In himself, it had always brought a very pleasant feeling, one of simultaneous relaxation and excitement, a strange electric hum that is in tune with every other living thing. What it does for the nontraditionally-living people of Milliways, he has no idea.