Thirty Days of Drabbles: Day Ten
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sraun 's prompt of "Mark Vorkosigan hires Agatha Heterodyne to build a special piece of equipment."
The girl in the green tweed dress looked over the plans carefully. "So what's this mirror for anyway?"
"A focusing element in a telescope," Mark lied smoothly.
"Are you sure? With that kind of curvature…" She frowned, humming to herself as she pulled out a pencil and made rapid notes in the margins of the blueprint. "Hey, if you had some way of identifying unrelated connecting points in the spacetime continuum, you could build a ship that would…" She was cut off as she dropped face first onto the drawing table when Mark's stunner fire struck her.
"It took her all of thirty seconds to make a major breakthrough in five-space physics," Kareen noted glumly beside him.
"Yeah, and all the other "Sparks" we met who might be able to do the job are crazier than I am," Mark said. "We are never going to get off this benighted planet."
sraun 's prompt of "Mark Vorkosigan hires Agatha Heterodyne to build a special piece of equipment."The girl in the green tweed dress looked over the plans carefully. "So what's this mirror for anyway?"
"A focusing element in a telescope," Mark lied smoothly.
"Are you sure? With that kind of curvature…" She frowned, humming to herself as she pulled out a pencil and made rapid notes in the margins of the blueprint. "Hey, if you had some way of identifying unrelated connecting points in the spacetime continuum, you could build a ship that would…" She was cut off as she dropped face first onto the drawing table when Mark's stunner fire struck her.
"It took her all of thirty seconds to make a major breakthrough in five-space physics," Kareen noted glumly beside him.
"Yeah, and all the other "Sparks" we met who might be able to do the job are crazier than I am," Mark said. "We are never going to get off this benighted planet."
