Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [10/18].

[special_rabbit]

Though she knew, deep down, she had pursued it entirely as a distraction from this deal not going at all the way she had expected it to, Amaya had spent some of her time since arriving making the house somewhat livable (still plenty to do there!), and most of her time picking and prodding and dismantling and remantling the Squishy machine. She'd given herself a task and she intended to pursue it to the bitter end.

She was on her back on a rolling creeper, fitting perfectly underneath the machine thanks to having removed some paneling, tools spread all around her within arms' reach, tinkering, adjusting, fixing, and a triumphant cry of victory emerged as she tweaked something into place. "Ah-ha!" she declared. "That's got to do it!"

And she rolled out, brushed her hands on her skirt, and gave the Squsihy machine a crooked grin. "I've got you now," she said, wagging a finger at it. "There's no way...no possible way in all the kingdoms, that this didn't finally work! You put up a good fight, and that's admirable, but I finally got you!"

Shoulders squared, chest puffed out confidently, Amaya reached over to pull the third handle on the machine after placing a cup under the spout, knowing what she'd done, what she'd hooked up, understanding how all the parts went together by now so that there was no way anything other than the very blue flavor would come out of that particular spout...

...only to have the cup fill up with Red.

"What? Wha--How? No. No. Nonono!"

She should know by now that shaking the machine was going to do anything either, but, dammit, that didn't stop her from doing it anyway.

Today's Squishy Flavors
Almost Had it Apple
Nice Try Nectarine
Red

Turtle & Canary is open!

Groovy Tunes, Wednesday

[justice_undone]

 Unsurprisingly, Earth music sounded quite different depending on where it was from and when it had been written. Breq felt she still had much to discover in the contemporary music within this culture -- there was quite a variety here too, after all -- but today she decided to venture further away in time and space. Well, staying on this planet wasn't very far, but still.

So today there was music playing from anywhere and anytime she could find recordings from, and Breq was humming along without really noticing. It was a pleasant day.