Subject: Iza blinked at the fire... and squeaked.
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Posted on: 2008-10-01 00:39:00 UTC

Sedri translated; "That's a no. I'll do it. I have an Idea."

Nat hesitated. When a PPC agent speaks In Capitals, general wisdom is to stay Far Away.

Sedri pulled a small object from her pocked and aimed towards the fire - and Cassie. First Nat thought was a gun, then jumped back as the Thing began to spurt huge quantities of water down the hall. Must be plothole-driven, she thought.

Iza was watching with a serene smile. Nat shook her head and watched the torrent douse every flame in the corridor. Water rushed back across the meal floor, soaking all their shoes, but the explosion was sufficiently quashed.

Nat looked at Sedri's tool. "What is that? Some sort of deux-ex-machina you pinched from a Sue?"

"Close enough," said Sedri, twirling the thing like a gunslinger before offering it to Nat. "Transdimensional Pocket Knife. Useful little things: I've been giving them away like crazy to the newbies - plothole in my RC seems to be duplicating them - but no one seems very interested. I don't see why. They can't be taken on missions but there's enough to do around HQ."

"If we're ever here," muttered Nat, but she had no chance to say more - Cassie was returning.

She was utterly drenched.

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