Email to Jamie

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

To: Jamie
From: Alison
Subject: Retribution...

Heya,

It occurs to me that I'm in debt to Nathan. Deeply in debt. Horribly in debt and such a situation cannot, but simply cannot be allowed to go on longer like this. It would simply be Wrong of me to allow that to continue.

As such - think your father would mind making a puzzle box for me to give Nathan as a gift?

I just need about two square inches of space inside it, which means your father can make it as big and as complex and multi-layered as he likes. (In fact? I want it to be brain twister. Pun intended.)

Alison

Comments

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell, now you've done it, I'm going to have to sit through another three weeks of phone calls and e-mails of Dad acting like a chipmunk on speed, just like when he was making that box for Lorna that wouldn't open unless the magnetic fields on the fiddly bits were just right.

Do you have any idea how surreal it is for me to see my calm, collected, deliberate, salt-of-the-earth dad act like a chipmunk on speed?

I swear, they're just gonna adopt you someday.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I may have a few sketches to send him. There's this pattern of interlocking Askani glyphs that would be downright evil to use and I bet he could do something interesting with that. ;)

Kinda like when I turn the tables on Miles and go into a sugar fueled hyperactive rush on him?

*grin*

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I bet he could. He's a sadist with his puzzle boxes, my dad. I ever tell you, though, I got revenge? Dwarves apparently make some really nasty blacksmith puzzles. :)

And no. It's worse. You're at least known for the occasional hyperactive jags--I've seen you and Lorna in a mall, remember? This is my father. Acting like a chipmunk.

On speed.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

I guess I shouldn't ask for a puzzle box based on reflecting red force beams at low level intensity and with just the right pressure and angles for Scott then, mm? ;)

Hey. Be happy. At least he doesn't go for the whole thing and find helium when he's like that. :D

Hee!