[ She's breezy in her dismissal of his despondence only because she recognizes it for the act that it is, and thus she hums the words with all the care of someone who treats it not as their primary task, but as a filler sentence to assure someone that she's still listening when in reality she stopped several moments ago. Despite her needling question, she gets to work, pressing her palm into where the plasma beam had warped the conductive plate, curving it back inward to withstand the blow again. ]
You really should get a new one. [ She says, more seriously. ] If it's lost integrity enough to warp, you could be looking at borrowed time. Reshaping it only puts more strain on.
[ It's the same with the inner workings of any delicate instrument panel or engine. Certain components burned hotter and faster than others, making them tiny but high value because they'd need to be exchanged and could be salvaged less frequently. Usually, you could only find parts like this one in ships with holes blown out of them—it more often meant they were new, and it had taken more work to bring them down, which meant the parts had seen less wear and tear.
She lays the conductive plate flat and settles the cracked crystal atop it, laying the vent irises out beside just to get a look at all of them in the right configuration without actually assembling it.
A moment later, she realizes, ] These vents are the only thing that have allowed the conductive plate to last this long, aren't they? Diverting the heat of the ignition blast.
is it weird to say i'm grateful that carrie's heart took her and not her mental illness
[ She's breezy in her dismissal of his despondence only because she recognizes it for the act that it is, and thus she hums the words with all the care of someone who treats it not as their primary task, but as a filler sentence to assure someone that she's still listening when in reality she stopped several moments ago. Despite her needling question, she gets to work, pressing her palm into where the plasma beam had warped the conductive plate, curving it back inward to withstand the blow again. ]
You really should get a new one. [ She says, more seriously. ] If it's lost integrity enough to warp, you could be looking at borrowed time. Reshaping it only puts more strain on.
[ It's the same with the inner workings of any delicate instrument panel or engine. Certain components burned hotter and faster than others, making them tiny but high value because they'd need to be exchanged and could be salvaged less frequently. Usually, you could only find parts like this one in ships with holes blown out of them—it more often meant they were new, and it had taken more work to bring them down, which meant the parts had seen less wear and tear.
She lays the conductive plate flat and settles the cracked crystal atop it, laying the vent irises out beside just to get a look at all of them in the right configuration without actually assembling it.
A moment later, she realizes, ] These vents are the only thing that have allowed the conductive plate to last this long, aren't they? Diverting the heat of the ignition blast.