Jean-Louise Reece (notafailure) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2012-10-25 18:42:00

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Concession Stand in the Middle of Knowhere.
Jean-Louise made two kinds of rock candy. The kind with sugar and the kind made of mineral quartz, because some of the silicon-based lifeforms would get their hopes up when they saw the first kind. She was careful to keep the two separate so she'd always sell the right one.

Business was pretty good. In a place this diverse, she didn't have as much market-targetting to do, but she still tried to pay attention to possibilities.

She'd also fixed some pizza and was having a break to have a slice herself.

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	notafailure 2012-10-26 02:06 am UTC (link)
	"There's some intuition to it, but we've learned better than to trust it. So plenty of library chemistry books and Dad's Guide to What's A Bad Idea, yeah, and then enough staring at the stuff to get a feel for it. Chemistry's easier than physics. I don't know how you guys do the warp gate trick." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-10-26 02:08 am UTC (link)
	"To be perfectly honest, neither do I. Not the physics of it, anyway. It was something I learned more in application than in theory." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-10-26 02:10 am UTC (link)
	She smiles. It was kinda nice that the remarkably-on-top-of-things people weren't necessarily on top of everything. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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