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Continuation from Interpenetration

"It's awfully quiet," I observe.
"Nat's astrological power," Monica tells me. "I can't tell you why it works, but apparently it does. I'm using it to keep people away."
"Won't that rouse suspicion?" I ask, entering a spiral stairwell. "And won't that tire you? You're not Nat."
"I don't want anyone getting hurt," she says. "And I'll be... okay."
"I can sense you're tiring, especially after interpenetration," I observe. "Shut down your astro... whatever."
"Meg - "
"I mean it," I tell her. "I need you at your best. And I have a smidge of that threadmancy energy. Take this." A small psifocuser materializes in her hand. And in my hands -
"How many weapons do you need?" Monica asks as she sees the AIG*.

"I'm not fooling around." I say. "This ends one way. With us victorious, freeing our loved ones."
I might have something to say about that.

* Anti-ion gun. A personnel weapon that fires a magnetically encapsulated stream of positively charged antimatter ions with devastating power.

Description
Continuation from Interpenetration

"It's awfully quiet," I observe.
"Nat's astrological power," Monica tells me. "I can't tell you why it works, but apparently it does. I'm using it to keep people away."
"Won't that rouse suspicion?" I ask, entering a spiral stairwell. "And won't that tire you? You're not Nat."
"I don't want anyone getting hurt," she says. "And I'll be... okay."
"I can sense you're tiring, especially after interpenetration," I observe. "Shut down your astro... whatever."
"Meg - "
"I mean it," I tell her. "I need you at your best. And I have a smidge of that threadmancy energy. Take this." A small psifocuser materializes in her hand. And in my hands -
"How many weapons do you need?" Monica asks as she sees the AIG*.

"I'm not fooling around." I say. "This ends one way. With us victorious, freeing our loved ones."
I might have something to say about that.

* Anti-ion gun. A personnel weapon that fires a magnetically encapsulated stream of positively charged antimatter ions with devastating power.