gratitude

[the_very_best]

Bella flies away. She visits her parents, hits up the guild for matches and wins enough to pay her guild dues, and tools around random wilderness beating up on the wildlife.

She doesn't really expect to hear from Sherlock and Tony again.

Comments

[bitofafiction]

"No comment."

[the_very_best]

"You think Watson'll beat her?"

[bitofafiction]

"I have never seen her run."

[the_very_best]

"She's fast," Bella asserts.

[bitofafiction]

"So is Watson."

[the_very_best]

"Well then," laughs Bella, "this'll be interesting either way."

[bitofafiction]

"Indeed."

[the_very_best]

"I'm getting up in altitude, it's gonna be hard to hear you. I'll see you in a day or two," Bella says.

[bitofafiction]

"I'll see you then."

[the_very_best]

A day later, Bella swoops in by the lake tower on Rachis.

[bitofafiction]

Sherlock leans out the window and waves.

[the_very_best]

"Hi!" calls Bella as she lands and returns the Pidgeot. "How goes?"

[bitofafiction]

"Boring," calls Sherlock, and he un-leans and comes downstairs.

[the_very_best]

"That's what I'm here to fix," laughs Bella when he emerges. "Haven't you got that awesome library? Have you already read everything in it?"

[bitofafiction]

"Everything I strongly desire to read. Tony can keep the engineering manuals."

[the_very_best]

"He building anything cool this week?"

[bitofafiction]

"Not especially."

[the_very_best]

"Man, what do you guys do all day when I am not around?"

[bitofafiction]

"Tony works on his various projects and wages an eternal battle to get the Porygon to let go of him so he can do science. I talk to the computer and beat up the wildlife."

[the_very_best]

"Those projects and that computer must be super-interesting to entertain you guys consistently."

[bitofafiction]

"Perhaps we are just eternally bored," he suggests.

[the_very_best]

"Then why wouldn't you figure out something to do, and go do it?"

[bitofafiction]

"All right, perhaps we aren't."

[the_very_best]

"Where is Tony? Project-ing or shooing Porygon?"

[bitofafiction]

"I believe he is currently drinking coffee."