Sadde and Bell in Worm
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He hugs her. "And I'm totally awake and not dreaming or hallucinating this in any way, my life's great. Except for the brushes with death part, those aren't that great, but the other parts: great."

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"The brushes with death do seem to rev me up. I mean, there's other ways to do it, but still."

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"Hmm, yeah, that's true, the last time it happened we started dating. This is a terrible incentive."

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"Do not follow this incentive, Sadde."

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"Well, now that we're already dating and I can already rev you up just by being cute around you at the right times, I think I prefer that."

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Snuggle.

"My brain's kinda funny right now."
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"Half of it is in this afterglowy peace and warm fuzzy, and the other half is screaming and running around in circles that this is really happening, and it makes me want to giggle randomly."

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She kisses his forehead.

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Awwwwwww!

Snuggle.
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Snuggle.

And eventually disentanglement and getting back into her clothes and her armor and going to get her dad to take her home.
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This time Sadde doesn't pout, because 1. she should spend time with her family after a brush with death and 2. it'd feel ungrateful for—well, everything.

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Good. Pouting is only sometimes becoming and it is correct for him to have a sense of timing.

And the next day is a normal day, with Lorica spending a chunk of it fixing robots, although most of them actually came through okay.
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And like most normal days, there's patrolling.

Today, she'll be patrolling with Glimmer, who should have a few rounds with everyone else so she can get to know the team and the city better.
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Yep.

A couple minutes before they're due to go out Lorica finds her to make sure she's suited up and ready to go.
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She is! The last thing she does is put her glasses away and put on her contact lenses because god she hates those things, but glasses are only partially covered by her forcefield and it's really annoying and hard to see with them when they interact, ugh.

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And they're off, surrounded by spaced-out robots humming through the air.

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Glimmer's fast, but she can't fly, so they're close to the ground.

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Suits Lorica fine. Some of her bots range high to compensate.

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Patrol patrol. Glimmer's pretty quiet, and when she does speak it's to ask, "What can you tell me about the city?"

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"Layout, culture, criminal activity...?"

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Shrug. "All of it, sort by relevance to our current activities."

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"There's several major gangs, many with associated capes. Rewind can tell you more about the Asian ones than I can; Empire Eighty-Eight you've met but I don't expect to see them again so soon -" She summarizes the others. "The city's been getting poorer since all the boats wrecked in the harbor and cut off the place's status as a trade hub but nobody has a plan to fix that. I'm sure you've seen a map; we mostly confine patrols to higher-crime and higher-villain-activity in particular regions, although today we're taking a pretty low-trafficked route because you're new and I'm down a couple pints of blood."

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"Mm."

Patrol patrol.
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