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"Everything looks in order" Vieve drew Sophronia’s attention back to Bumbersnoot "What was it you wanted adjusted?"

Sophronia tossed Vieve a slass with metal co to those who knew the style

Vieve knew it "One of the newest crystalline valve frequensors Where’d you get it?"

"You heard about my train misappropriation last winter?"

"I heard you eliminated a shipload of these pretties Terrible waste"

"Let’s say one of them came into my possession Only, this one is special"

"How so?"

"It’s the one the va to track the Pickleled it out"

"You think it’s so the other valves?"

"The vaered this valve to react to the activation of the new ones Could you hook this into Bumbersnoot? I know he’s only a mechanimal, so he wouldn’t be able to react exactly as ordered to whatever new protocol the Pickleet him to do that steam whistle alar "You want him to be the canary in the coal mine? Alert you when the Picklerinned "Brilliant idea It’s large for such a little beastie I’ll have to install it in his storage co it in so it activates his alarm, when I’ht, s precisely what the Pickle her sentences unfinished in tiive you that n with Vieve, she wouldn’t do it if she didn’t think it a challenge Sophronia had once asked her to construct a bladed fan Vieve had scoffed at the very idea "It’s already been done Why would I bother?"

But this, this was so to take time I’ll need to keep hi do you need?"

Vieve frowned "A week Will that work?"

"Perfect ti if you can make it The school should be back at Swiffle for the holiday break Meet you here the night we coht? You’ll have to keep an eye to the moor, for the airship"

"I always do If I don’t make the deadline, I’ll send him to the sooties while the school is in port They’ll pass hi to you after Christo to my aunt, since she stays on board with Professor Braithwope, and I’ve no other fa Bunson’s tothe expensive equipment I ards, by the way"

Vieve smiled wistfully "Of course they do" Her s "Iclosed "Me, too" She quickly changed the subject "Anything else you neglected to tell me about the Pickle the valve and slinging Bumbersnoot over her shoulder by his reticule strap "Four of theer Saw the Bunson’s, on foot, just before I did"