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[im_a_leg]

[LOOK WHO'S OUT OF THE CLINIC AT LONG LAST]

Hey, so guys? I totally do not recommend eating wild berries. Tasty though they look, gentle on your stomach they are not. Oh, man. It was like being on the test team program all over again. Ship going backward sand forwards, up and down, side to si--

[He goes a little green and cups his mouth. When he speaks again he sounds strained.] Alright, okay, cool. So enough of that. That is officially all of that that's gonna happen.

So, yeah. No berries. Bad plan. Don't do it.

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[forgeabettertomorrow]

[In fact, it does look like there's more that she's not saying.]

[Okay. This is something Darin can handle. Darin used to barter and talk business with the best of them. His negotiating skills were top notch. What could a Pidge bring to the table that no one else has before?]

[He takes another fee breath and squares up.]

Yeah...those notes were from awhile ago. I hardly remember everything I had discovered around that time.

You ah...you come across anything else interesting? Anything useful?

[pidge_out]

[She nods a little, calm and sage as ever.]

Some interesting stuff, sure. Not a lot of useful things I didn't already know. Kind of hard to remember right now.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Oh yeah? I don't know, I find it a little hard to believe that a mind as sharp as yours would fail to remember anything you found interesting.

We gotta work together, right? As a team? Maybe if you tell me what caught your attention we can make some sense out of it. Maybe it'll be useful.

[He knows he's taking a risk here but he has to know what Pidge saw.]

[pidge_out]

[Well, Darin. Now you get a little bit of that mischievousness shining through in the little smile she gives him.]

I guess. I've made sense out of most of it, though.

And by the way, I only remember what I need.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

[Darin grinds his teeth briefly as he continues to press her.]

Okay...then. Was any of the information particularly helpful?

To help you understand the Ingress?

Or was there...y'know...things you found unrelated to the ingress that piqued your interest...?

[pidge_out]

[Oh Darin. You are so not good at this.]

Little of both, actually.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

[HE'S TRYING, DAMMIT.]

Yeah?

Like what?

[pidge_out]

Like your birthday.

[Duh.]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Aha! Now I've got you!

Why would I put my own birthday in my own journals! That's just stupid!

Which means you learned that from Shiro because I wouldn't dare write such personal, sensitive information down!!

[pidge_out]

[For someone who just got busted, she doesn't look terribly concerned. She's still smiling a little, head tilted ever so slightly.]

Let's pretend you're right and I didn't learn it from your journals. I also could've done a biometric scan that carbon dated your body to the exact moment it emerged from the womb. Or I could've hacked into the machinery here and found your personal data file.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Okay but...

... ... ...

All of those things sound like a tremendous pain in the ass to just find out when my birthday is...

They also sound terrifying.

[pidge_out]

Who says I would do those things just to find out about a birthday?

[forgeabettertomorrow]

...I know you're doing this to put me off.

I want you to know that it is working.

Pidge. I need you to be honest with me.

Do you secretly want to experiment on me?

[im_a_leg]

Dude. "Secretly?"

[forgeabettertomorrow]

PIDGE PLEASE DON'T EXPERIMENT ON ME.

MY PARTS ALL WORK BETTER ON THE INSIDE.

[pidge_out]

[Well now she's just grinning evilly]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

LOOK, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?!

I PROMISE I CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW WITHOUT YOU HAVING TO CUT ME
OPEN.

IF IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M YELLING I SWEAR IT'S ONLY BECAUSE I FEAR FOR MY INTERNAL ORGANS RIGHT NOW.

PLEASE DON'T DISSECT ME AND PUT ME INTO JARS.

[pidge_out]

[Gosh, that glint in her eye just doesn't seem to be going away!]

Wait, what was that? I- I can barely hear you anymore, you're br--

[And the feed ends midsentence. :D]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

I'm never sleeping again.

[pidge_out]

[ :3 ]

[shiro2hero]

She's not experimenting on anyone.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

I AM STRANGELY UNCONVINCED.

[shiro2hero]

Pidge is a technician, robotics, electronics and computer expert, Darin.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

SOMETIMES PEOPLE LIKE TO BROADEN THEIR SKILLSET, SHIRO.

[shiro2hero]

I know Pidge.

She doesn't do human experimentation. She's doing this to get under your skin.