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[boundinblood]

[At first, the wrong camera turns on, showing the book Katherine has laid out on the table, pages bathed in sunlight from a nearby window. It's nonfiction - biology, in fact, and its target audience likely in the young teens crowd. The open page displays a labeled diagram of a strand of DNA and a Punnett square with an explanation in small print, courtesy of a cartoonish character sitting on its corner, clearly drawn by an adult attempting to appeal to a younger crowd they only superficially understand. The normal-sized text at its side explains hereditary traits, with a side of how DNA determines everything about a person's appearance. It's helpfully colloquial.]

Well, I can't say I completely understand all of this, but- oh, wait, I've got it the wrong way, haven't I?

[She switches to the front camera to show her face instead, bags under her eyes indicating a rather long self-imposed study session. She raises a mug of something no longer hot enough to require one to her lips and sets it down offscreen with a gentle thunk. The window beside her reveals the skybridges, flying cars, and gleaming metal towers of Tomorrow, from several stories up.]

There we are! Now, as I was saying, am I right in guessing this means the...the essence of who we are is in...all of us? Does that mean spells that require a bit of, say, hair, from the caster have worked on the same principles as blood magic all along?

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[thygospelevity]

[She reads him right and reads him well. But it's not just the poetry that makes it wonderful. It's the idea of reuniting, of doing so and things becoming better.

It's so much so, his blinking becomes such that he may very well be trying to fight back tears.]

That is truly beautiful, my wicked sister. I would like that very much. Oh! I shall require a device of recording that I may share my own ventures! Only then shall it be a truly fortuitous mother fuckin exchange or the miraculous! Thank you, sister Katherine!

[boundinblood]

[Getting a quick read on someone turns out to be a useful skill to develop for basically everything she does.]

You could use the CALL device itself. I should too, actually - there's nothing like it at home...

[An air of mystery and proof of concept for everything here in Tomorrow, for sure. She wonders how her friends would react.]