Fortuna Verto

11-Equivalent Exchange

The two girls remained hard at work for the entire day, even late into dusk. It was not until the next night, after a good rest, were the girls in a position to evaluate the fruits of their efforts.

Rosa woke up and tried to stand, discovering her new knees weren't working at all. Of course, that's what she had been told, this sort of stuff doesn't just work right away, her body has to adjust to it. Meanwhile, she had been provided with some more temporary measures as she waited. Slipping on the metallic pants over her normal clothes, she put on the special glove that functioned exactly like a remote control. In honesty, she felt this was sort of novel too, it was like she held an instrument that controlled her armored legs. Of course, controlling legs with hands was no easy task, that alone looked to need a bit of getting used to as she stumbled around. She still had it way better off, Kori walking in to check up on her, having been awake for an hour already. Her new arm meanwhile was still fully limp at her side, it being meaningless to try and have a remote control glove to make her arm work. Lacking the arm, she had even taken to Rosa's example of using audio mode with the nanites, just to free up her only remaining hand. Considering that hand was also her frozen one, she really didn't want to be forced to over depend on it.

"System check, how is our cybernetics doing." "Cybernetic installation not having any adverse reactions. There remains high probabilities of success in this project." "Perfect. Please continue monitoring our status. Have there been any important updates regarding our frozen problem?" "Isolation of absolute zero conditions has been successful. However, on that subject, there has been research accomplished regarding the singularity incident from before." "Wait, I didn't ask for such a thing." "As the singularity had been determined to be a potential danger, and similar items had been raised frequently in concern, it was judged that the subject was to be considered with high importance. Readings accomplished during the time of the singularity yielded no results, which would itself be irregular as all things have results. To have no readings would require an environment that could not echo a reply. The closest known similarity to such an event would then include events such as black holes and dark matter. As dark matter is still considered an unproven oddity, black holes may be considered a more accurate comparison." "Black holes, dark matter... Oh my, could it be any more perfect. Thank you, your input is in fact highly appreciated." Kori was actually surprised to have missed an idea her nanites had not. Earth's fairy tales did not just cover fantasies of earth, but also some fictions of space. For example, the belief that worlds might exist on the other side of black holes, that dark matter was simply detecting planets that were beyond the scope of the universe. Actually, this was convincing enough to believe that black holes might actually be the tears failing between worlds. Scientifically sound logic that then claimed, if the veil failed here, Aestus would be consumed in a black hole.

Such however did remind Kori, there were a number of preventative measures she needed to take on that same idea. She needed to figure out how to stabilize the singularity on this side. They needed both sides to stay stable, but someone else would have to figure out the side she was still working on trying to understand. She also needed to figure out how to predict the whole world-switching thing. They had just witnessed a singularity reaction occurring violently via a measure of impact. What she had heard about it from the other world, the worry was simply a matter of touch, but it might be more a matter of pressure, tension and strain. Neuton had a law about it, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Smack the veil, the veil smacks you back in kind. However, it isn't like she's taken all pressure away from her arm, and that crash would have included an impact that made a simple slap look like a gentle touch. She was still missing something. Maybe it was a matter of the time or the place? While lost in thought, she was thus surprised when a holo showed up before her, revealing an important news bulletin.