Tidelands: III-Seven (47)

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[It’s a failure of imagination,] he tells her, from wherever he is.

Maybe if I had an actual human to practice on, Squirrel grumbles.

[A poor tradeswoman blames her tools.]

The last few weeks have been spent mostly stuck in her room, trying to hone her invasion skills, with mixed results.

But it’s hard. There is a knack to it, evidently, one which cannot be consciously mastered, but must employ a combination of instinct and intuition. The fact that she has already achieved this multiple times, albeit unpredictably, just makes it all the more frustrating.