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[heart_wrenching]

[ Even after the video starts, the image is mostly obscured, the figure still way too close and fiddling with her device. ]


Is this really broadcasting now? Amaaaaazing. I can't even see the microphone or camera! It's almost unbelievable.


[ When she finally sits back the area around her is a mess. The tables are strewn with tools and machine parts, knobs, springs, coils, piping. If one looks carefully, one may be able to spot a number of control panels suggesting she has possibly dismantled every major appliance in the home. Like ya do. ]


Well, hello! I'm a new imPort, my name's Winry. Winry Rockbell. And . . . does anyone out there know how to build a "microwave"? Well, rebuild, technically. The locks and turntables are pretty straightforward, but then there's all these wires . . . who knew electricity was going to be such a big deal, anyway?

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[heart_wrenching]

Well- let's just see how many I get...

[vorbarra]

[ Tolerantly, ] We'll see.

[ Gregor is shockingly patient, though; he's perfectly content to stand there and skim through some titles himself in vague interest as she makes her selections. Gregor has enough schooling to have a passing understanding of what he's reading, but anything in detail or too technical totally loses him. ]

[heart_wrenching]

[ WELL SHE'S GOING TO GET RIGHT INTO IT, looking at first for more general texts, though there are a few more specific ones especially on medical tech that are going into her short list. There is also a lot of excited conferring with Ed. ]

[vorbarra]

[ Gregor might wander away and pick out some books of his own during this, though he doesn't go very far. He ends up in an armchair near the physical sciences section, reading a book of French literature (in French). ]

[heart_wrenching]

[ Well by that time, a walking pile of books is heading towards him wobbling as it goes. ]

[vorbarra]

[ Gregor shuts his quickly, setting it aside and reaching out to take some off the top of the wobbling stack. ]

Here, let me--