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It is about halfway through the third hour of the fifteenth day of Lucette's attempt to reorganize her grandfather's library. The project is moving at an acceptable pace overall, though she's starting to question the wisdom of having scheduled the whole thing down to the hour during day three (hour four).
Six-artifact-pileup Annie drops on Lucette
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keep_busy
So Annie explains how artifacts work and what she knows about which ones are operative on her.
dreaming-of-stormy-skies
Sophie gets bored during artifact number three and asks if any of them are about weather and if not can they talk about something more interesting or is Annie the sort of person she has to be polite to.
dreaming-of-stormy-skies
"I think it's probably somewhat interesting, but my science tutor is ill and Lucette hasn't been writing me as many letters as she used to and when she does the letters talk about you more than the weather. Though they are still much better than other letters."
stage-manager
If Lucette makes a face and no one in the conversation notices it did she really make a face at all?
keep_busy
Probably not! "...if you two want to catch up about the weather I can go read a book or something."
stage-manager
"-if you'd like? We still have to test to see if the strange contact phenomenon I felt with you will repeat itself when you touch Sophie."