[video] this may come as a surprise but I am not a mechanical engineer

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[There's a lot of crap going on right now, sure, and whatever the more overtly-powered people have done to subdue the recent catastrophe has helped, but that doesn't mean he can continue to put certain things on his to-do list on the perpetual backburner.

Continuing his mapping and documentation process, for one. Reach out to the populace with a completely innocent, well-meaning inquiry, for another.

Also avoid dying, but that's just a general to-do these days.]

This might be a weird question, but does anyone here know how to craft...small items? Like a smith, or a carpenter, or some combination thereof?

Asking for a- [There is an awkward beat as he tries to determine whether the statement is accurate.] -friend.

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[storyseeker]

[She has faith! He doesn't break phones nearly as often as some people they know.]

Oh, that's like half of what smartphones should be used for. He'll be fine.

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[Nate is fairly certain his Hadriel phone is built of reinforced steel, or something equally impervious to frequent encounters with blunt force.]

Cute.

[He can't refute it. People here almost exclusively contact him to ask him what the Hell he's doing.]

I need to figure out how to lock people from conversations on this, though. Have you done that yet?

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[storyseeker]

[He set himself up for that one and surely he would be disappointed in her if she didn't seize the opportunity.]

Oh, yeah, ages ago. I lock things from you two, maybe three times of the week. For girl talk, sharing stories that'd embarrass you, all kinds of things.

[Is she the best wife ever or what.]

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What?

[Panic slants his tone up at the end of the word - Nate has moments of frightening gullibility and now is one of those times, blinking at her in abject betrayal. Why this. Why now.]

Seriously? With who? What about?

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[storyseeker]

[Oh, no. This is terrible. This is not what she expected. Instead of rolling his eyes and grinning with her, he believes her. Elena would feel awful if it weren't hilarious.]

With lots of people! Lup, Laura, Ellie...

[Okay, no. She can't keep a straight face.]

Nate, I'm kidding.

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[At least one of those names he doesn't know, and the others he doesn't think are really fit for sharing. It takes a painfully long second - up until her tone shifts - that he thinks she's entirely serious.]

Oh, you're funny. I married a comedian.

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[storyseeker]

[Elena manages to avoid laughing at him to his face, but only through beaming at him.]

Gotta keep a sense of humor in these trying times, right?

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I'll get you back.

[He assures her, feigning seriousness and raising his eyebrows. When she least expects it she's getting tackled to the bed and tickled within an inch of her life.]

Just you wait.

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[storyseeker]

Oh, I'm counting on it.

[He might be serious, but she's giving him a wicked grin. There's at leastt a fifty-fifty

chance that she'll enjoy whatever he has in mind.]