[Day 3, Public]

[anti_nonsense]

[Oh hey, Rita's actually using the network today. Her voice sounds weak and raspy, but she's got some water handy, so she should be able to make it through talking without hurting her throat too much, at least for a while. Besides, this is important.]

Right... so, apparently, I'm not supposed to do anything too strenuous until I've recovered more... which is fine and all, but the thing is... I've already read every book in my trailer three times over.

Anybody got any books I can borrow? Nonfiction is preferred, but frankly, I'm getting desperate.

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[osteothropy]

How d'ya feel about math?

[Sans is also here in tired and mostly bedridden land.]

[anti_nonsense]

It's an integral part of magic theory, which I specialize in.

[Said proudly, but then, with a hint of eagerness:]

Why? You got something interesting?

[osteothropy]

[Heh. He respects that. It's basically how he reacted to that kind of thing at his age.]

I got a few things you might like. I'm a physicist, myself. But hey, maybe it'll just be telling you stuff you already know.

[anti_nonsense]

You are!? [There's actually a hint of excitement in there, but also... surprise? Hasn't she heard this same guy making idiotic jokes over the radios before? Rita definitely wouldn't have guessed he was the academic sort.]

Could be, but it's worth taking a look. You'd be surprised at the perspectives different worlds can bring, even to fields like math and physics.

[Or maybe he wouldn't be, if he's been exploring alien publications like she has.]

[osteothropy]

[Hey, being a physicist and making idiotic jokes are not mutually exclusive. He can even make idiotic jokes about physics!]

Yeah, you see that more and more the longer you travel around the multiverse. The way reality works in individual places can be pretty different. There's a lot of humans, for instance, but the way they utilize magic can change a lot between different places, so their physics tends to change, too.

It's all part of why our own magic doesn't work the same when we visit new places. Some worlds are more compliant than others.

[anti_nonsense]

That makes sense. I've been here for just a few months, so I've only been able to examine theories from a handful of worlds... [It's hit-and-miss whether a given world even has any useful information available, too...]

I take it you've been at this longer? [...and with more success in finding good reading material?]

[osteothropy]

Three years now.

[He's got a backlog of research - from the times that he's been active, anyway. Depression has a way of interfering with his work ethic, every so often. As such, he doesn't immediately go into details.]

Where you at, kid? I've got some pretty thick texts on the subject, from worlds before you signed on. I can send a few over.

[anti_nonsense]

[She can't wait!!! But she's containing her excitement and answering casually instead.]

Trailer 19.

You got someone willing to play courier for you?

[osteothropy]

Nah. I was just thinkin' of doing something like... this.

[Around the same time he says it, a couple of heavy books will plop into the middle of her trailer.]

I hope you were around to see that, or else it will kind of ruin the effect.

[anti_nonsense]

[In addition to the thumping of the books, Sans may also hear a gasp and a clatter as Rita is caught completely by surprise.]

Wh-- what the hell was that!?

[osteothropy]

Spacial manipulation. Or, you know, me teleporting them over based on the location of your trailer. Hope they didn't crush anything.

[anti_nonsense]

... It's fine.

I'd like to hear more about this 'spacial manipulation' of yours, though...

[Ordinarily, Rita would start barraging him with questions here and now. But that would be pretty hard on her throat, and in her condition, she might not have enough concentration to fully appreciate an explanation. He's probably in a similar boat, too. So...] Maybe sometime when we aren't feeling like crap.

[osteothropy]

Heh. You got it.

[He's been sleeping most of every day recently so he wouldn't be in very good shape for hard thinking.]

Looks like we'll have plenty of time coming up.