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[firstonesexpert]

There's probably a few hours worth of recording there, since she hasn't changed, nor needed to change her recorder just yet. She's grinning at him the entire time, hands bunched into fists at how he's apparently enjoying her notes. Maybe that means he can add to them?

"Thanks!" She takes his back and starts bouncing her hands around as she talks. "I haven't had much of a chance to really engage with all of the technical sides of this place just yet, but the Pokemon have been fascinating! Some of those Steel types look like they're a perfect blend of technology and organic matter, I can't wait to see if one of them will let me examine it more closely!" One hand dips into an unassuming seam that turns out to be a pocket and she whips out an uncovered scalpel with aplomb. "They're incredible!"

[fingersandteeth]

He takes a step back, his eyes flaring wide at the sudden blade. "I'm not sure they'd take well to vivisection if they are organic," he says, phrasing it as a gentle reminder in tone, despite the actual words. "The mechanical ones, maybe."

[firstonesexpert]

"Oh, yeah. You're probably right about that." And the scalpel goes away immediately, with no apparent disruption to the outline of her overalls. She still jazz-hands at him immediately afterwards. "Still! Can't you just imagine the sheer potential that something that's a pure, balanced mix of organic and technological has? I spent my whole life studying this, and I've never even come as close to it as these things just exist as!" And she laughs, a wild and gleeful cackle.

[fingersandteeth]

Steve chuckles with her.

(She's wonderful.)

"I never quite thought of it that way," Steven admits, "but I haven't done much with the mechanical sort of Pokemon. The closest I've come to one of those is my floating magic key-ring. But you're right-- there is potential there, real potential."

She's not Charley. She's older. Too much hair. Shorter. Wrong eyes. But that look of passion in her eyes, that glee in knowing-- they remind him so much of his sister that it takes his breath away.

"I'm Steven," he says, suddenly, realizing he never properly introduced himself.

[firstonesexpert]

"Oh! I'm Entrapta!"

She stands there, gleeful and excited with a light tilt of her head. It takes her a few seconds to remember, with a small noise, and she sticks one hand out to shake. "Technically I'm a princess, but since Dryl doesn't exist I don't imagine I have much authority here."

argh that steve should have been steven

[fingersandteeth]

He takes her hand and gives it a firm shake. "I'm pleased to meet you, Entrapta of Dryl."

And he is. He really and truly is.

it's fine i know u

[firstonesexpert]

"Oh you don't need to be formal about it," she says dismissively. "Dryl isn't a particularly important kingdom, we don't even have an elemental Runestone."

She takes her hand back and wraps one arm around a ponytail, toying with her hair with a hint of awkwardness. "I, uh. I also don't have some of my abilities here, so it's kind of... unusual."

She misses using her hair for things.

Re: it's fine i know u

[fingersandteeth]

"I know the feeling," Steven says. "I don't have some of mine, either. They say that every so often, though, we get them back for a weekend--it hasn't happened yet since I've been here, but maybe soon enough again."

[firstonesexpert]

The Impidimp glances over at Steven again, looking him up and down, but then turning away again.

"Oh! So that means you're entirely human now, correct?" Suddenly she is all up in his face, both gloved hands coming up so she can push his glasses up, standing on her toes to try and look at his eyeballs up close before she moves to push his mouth open to examine his teeth. "What were you originally, then?"

[fingersandteeth]

"Human, actually," he says, holding very still so he doesn't lash out at her. "I was just something else too for a while."

[firstonesexpert]

What a patient man, dealing with Entrapta's enthusiasm.

"Fascinating." She pulls away from Steven all at once, and pulls out her recorder again, and there's an almost clinical form to the way she's viewing Steven. "Log, day eight." And then she circles around him, grabbing one wrist to lift his arm in the air and examine him as she talks. "I've met another non-native being to this universe who claims to have existed in some sort of non-human and unusually powered form before arriving here, while somehow starting out as a human as well." She drops his wrist, then leans up to grab the hair on the nape of his neck like she's looking for a seam. "I plan to investigate more to try and learn the exact nature of his magic."

There's a click, as she turns off the recorder, and suddenly she's in front of him and up in his face again. "So! What kind of magic do you have!"

[fingersandteeth]

Honestly, it helps that she strongly reminds him of his missing-presumed-dead baby sister. He's always had a lot of patience for Charley and the way Entrapta resembles her in enthusiasm gives him patience for her too.

"Ah, our kind makes... contracts, they're called. With various concepts. And that's what gives us our magic. Basically."