AN: Only two drabbles this week!
A lot of talk (Sidney, Maya)
"… Not that I especially care or anything, but are you feeling okay? You look exhausted."
"Yeah," Sidney said, collapsing into the seat next to her. "It's just, uh… I ran into Freddy earlier."
"Uh huh. And?"
"Well, he was doing something with berries and dried stuff and it got me curious, so…"
Maya raised an eyebrow. "So…?"
"Well, lemme put it this way. Y'know how Kurt can ramble on about chess and Tatiana can ramble on about books? Neither of 'em have anything on Freddy when he gets started on survival prep. Dunno how I got outta there alive…"
But what does it actually do? (Mint, Valimar)
The little one always seemed to have a new question at the ready whenever she came by for a maintenance appointment, though they all started the same way:
"Hey Val, what does this do?"
Valimar had learned quite quickly that the baseline answers – the answers that would prove sufficient to your average curious party – would not hold muster with Mint. She had been too well trained by her uncle to accept surface level responses and invariably she would pout and look up, pointing out that anyone could read a spec sheet; she wanted the details.
(Unusual emphasis hers, of course).