This still was not enough ( Read more... )

Let it never be said that Stacy was not benevolent toward her crew. Truth was, she loved them, to the point of risking her own life. And thus, she'd been busy for quite some time... silently she had worked, trying to get into her own archives and cross-checking references. She was going to help boost morale and give them a gift - show them people ( Read more... )

The City didn't have weather as most people knew it, but it was nonetheless a beautiful day - warm weather with a nice breeze, Stacy's sun-equivalent shining in the sky... almost as if it was reflecting the emotions of at least one of the ship's crew. In the middle of the Park, someone had set up a little white lattice archway amongst the hedgerows ( Read more... )

Deep in the ship, a winged shape moved. 'Reinforce' she was called by the rest of the ship, but she no longer knew that name as anything but an anomalous detail of her incomplete recollections of her time on the ship, too inconsequential - or too confusing - to dwell on. She was of the time, not very long ago at all, before she had been given that ( Read more... )

It had not taken long for Reinforce to realize Hayate had been taken. The interference in their connection was subtle - Hayate was still near and healthy - but she was sensitive to such things, and it had not taken much time to confirm that she could not physically locate her ( Read more... )

Even with Hayate to look after, certain new neighbors who were prone to violently explosive magical experiments, and her nascent information-gathering project Reinforce was still a Device with a good deal more free time than she really liked to have. Until she closed her self-imposed review process and the 'magic census' got into full swing it took ( Read more... )

Reinforce, in her own humble-in-expression-but-not-content opinion, did not do nearly enough around the ship. The only real duties she had here were the shifts handling internal comms traffic and her time spent attending to Hayate, and the former was split with her sister while the latter was little different in form from an especially close ( Read more... )

Reinforce, once you cut through the impressive details of her magitechnological structure, the fact of her multiple and currently separated bodies, and the pronounced sense of mind/body dualism that was experienced by a person whose mind and body had been designed with far more distinct structures and intents than any biological life, basically ( Read more... )

Flitting around to another soundtrack that she had managed to find for her music player, Rein was setting down tea and cookies in her shop and waiting for her big sister to arrive. Her bigger sister in more ways than one, which made Rein a little envious for her sweater puppies ( Read more... )

There were many strange things about the WITCH bus, but from Reinforce's perspective the most intriguing was the way, described by Matt and confirmed by a few experiments of her own, that it expanded to suit the demonstrated needs of its inhabitants. It was not unlike the dream realm within the Tome of the Night sky, and at first she thought it ( Read more... )