A Torch Passed

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Ken laughed as he could hear soft snoring coming from Bree's office in Harakiri

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Ken laughed as he could hear soft snoring coming from Bree's office in Harakiri.  He knocked lightly at the wall before walking in.

The sound jolted Bree awake, her hands shuffled about the items across her desk in her disorientation. A dent went across her cheek were she'd been sleeping on a pen and a paper clip was still stuck to her cheek just under the pen mark.

Ken laughed more, and Bree brushed the paperclip off.

"Have you been here all night? Have you both, been here all night?" Ken asked his eyes falling on Kiku who was sleep in the guest chair, her head thrown back and mouth hanging open.

"Huh? Both?" Bree looked around confused, "where'd Nee go?" Bree asked.

Juice entered in behind Ken, pointing over his shoulder with his thumb. "Why is ya girl sleeping with her hand dipped in that tank of water....you know that'll  make her pee herself." Juice said.

Bree hopped out of her chair and ran through Juice and Ken. "Thats not water! She's contaminated batch 3!" Bree yelped.

She ran put to were Neela had fallen asleep slumped in a chair over a thick metal tub. Her hand was dipped in the clear liquid and the metal pipe she had once been stirring with was bobbing up and down in it.

"Neela! Wake up! Wake up! Kit 3!" Bree shouted shaking Neela awake. Neela woke up and snatched her hand out of the water. "Oh my god!" Neela gasped. She looked up at Bree with apologetic eyes "I'm so sorry Bree..." She said.

Bree sighed and shook her head "no we all fell asleep. It's not just you." She said to Neela. "But this batch is dead...thats 50 gallons wasted." Neela said.

"Neela's got a small hand, how is the whole batch ruined?" Juice asked. "Because, babe. Kistunebi is very temperamental. You see its a method to protect the formula from people who might want to copy it and as well as protecting the Racer's that use it." Kiku said entering the room while rubbing her eyes.

"I don't get it." Ken confessed.

"Fox Fire is made to neutralize itself when it comes in contact with human skin, and it's very picky about it. You can wear gloves but if you don't coat the gloves in our specific solutions," Bree showed off a small unmarked  arisol can, "it can react to skin particles left behind on the outside of the gloves as well as pick up on your hand inside the glove." Bree explained.

"When it neutralizes, it'll become little more than reusable glow stick juice. When police, thieves or copycats try to run tests it becomes useless." Neela said.

"I mean...its pretty useless right now even without contamination, it needs to be stirred until cool with stainless steel, volcanic sediment or glass and contained in the same material. After this we add carbination this is what turns it into, Nos. But it's not your average stuff." Bree explained a grin came to her face as she swirled her finger around in the ruined mixture.

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