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Owner	Pose
Entrapta	"The fulcrum of the system is key," the girl says to nobody in particular. "You add weight on one side only when you've counterbalanced it from the other, and with the overload coming from horizontal instead of from the angles." She's in the chicken place, with the entire table's supply of chopsticks opened from their packaging and spread out on the table. There's a complicated build ongoing, as if she was trying to assemble some kind of machine from them It seems like a catapult, at this early stage. "Without the necessary pulleys or strapping this is going to be unstable at best, but I think it'll still work. We can call it a test of gravitic function, given how odd things work around here." The people who work here are unimpressed. Curious, sure. Confused, definitely. But still, that's a table for customers.
Fairy Lamya	Mmmm. Kaarage. Another human delicacy that Mie has fallen in love with, especially the spicy stuff. When she came in she was so focused on acquiring food that she didn't notice Entrapta and her contraption, but now that she has a tray full of delectable delights, the inventor catches her attention. Strange. The catapult-like machine made from chopsticks looks familiar to her. There usually aren't many sieges in the fairy realm of Marchenland, but of the few she's experienced these weapons were present. Curiosity overcomes her natural reluctance to socialize so she comes over to where Entrapta sits and, uninvited, sits down across from her, setting her tray down. On her plate is a veritable smorgasbord of food up to and including popcorn kaarage sauced with something spicy. "I see you are building a fairy-sized weapon of mass destruction," she says. "Have you decided to war against them?"
Entrapta	Barely glancing up from her work, the purple twintailed gadgeteer adds a stick on top of the contraption, balancing it with nimble hands. "I think it started out with that concept, but at this point I'm just trying to see if I can build it higher," she says, clearly responding to whoever's speaking in her direction. "There's room for more, if you want to interact with the build, but we might need more building materials. I've uses up almost all there were available on the table top." She reaches for her pile of chopsticks, and her hand comes back empty. "Correction," she frowns. "I've exhausted my supply for now. So, I suppose this is what I can do with the products at hand." She talks as if she's used to concise words, each word is used in a very specific fashion. Until they aren't, and she looks up. "Oh. Hello, do I know you?"
Fairy Lamya	Mie is far from an engineer, but Entrapta's machine has captured her imagination. "Fascinating," she says. She looks at her own pair of chopsticks that she picked up to eat her food, and back at Entrapta's invention. She could contribute but then she would have to use her fingers to eat. That just wouldn't do. However... She digs around in her pockets before pulling out a hairband and a couple of paper clips and sets them on the table. "Perhaps these will help?" she offers. When the inventor finally looks up at her she shakes her head. "You do not," she says. "I am Mie Kitamura, and now you do."
Entrapta	Pausing to cover her mouth as a yawn overtakes her, the engineerling looks at the offerings. She perks up a bit, then pauses. "The experiment was to see what I could do with the existing products at hand, but..." Pause, she thinks as she works through this. "I believe that that experiment in particular is complete, so we could start a new one!" Yes, that seems to still fall under the parameters of science. Re-using old materials is fine. "You're here for the food?" she asks, as she picks up a paper clip and begins to test its tensile strength. Wiggle. "They haven't served me, I assume it's because I'm not following the proper procedures."
Fairy Lamya	"I am," Mie confirms with a firm nod. "And you are not. You have to go to the counter and serve yourself should you want food." She snaps apart her chopsticks and deftly picks up a piece of the popcorn kaarage. "I recommend the extra spicy sauce. It gives the chicken extra flavor." "What experiment are you planning on doing now?" she asks curiously. "I must admit, I am not all that interested in science, but what you are doing is fascinating."
Entrapta	Smiling, the headtilt is a proper thinking headtilt as Entrapta considers the situation and the advice. "Well, if they can't bring the food then I suppose I'll have to go to it. But that's not important right now!" She beams and leans, which is not silly as she's leaning forward. Toward Mie. "We could test anything you like! There's a significant amount of work that's been done already with this kind of materials, like trying to fling objects long distances. You mentioned siege engines, they all were based on these simple simulations. Also simple data collection, finding out how many bands it takes to snap a stick gives a plethora of data." She pauses, sighing, and then adds, "But it's all really been done before. Honestly there's not a lot that I could do here that I don't already have answers for."
Fairy Lamya	Mie blinks and leans backward to maintain an amount of personal space. "I would not know what to test," she confesses. "As I said, I am not too familiar with the sciences." She looks down at the chopsticks and the hairband in confusion. "Do you mean how many hairbands you have to wrap around a chopstick in order to break it? I do not think that the hairband is strong enough to perform this activity. Plus, I have only the one." At Entrapta's lament, she looks up to her. "Airplanes, perhaps?" she suggests. "They have wings, but do not flap, yet they remain in the air, and I am told it is not magic that keeps them aloft."
Entrapta	"Oh, yes!" Entrapta engages with that topic easily. "I hadn't seen the technology before but once I was shown it, it made perfect sense!" Pausing to pull apart her structure, Entrapta takes about five seconds to assemble a demonstrative model. "Air blows over the structure here, this is what a wing would look like," she's built an angled bend of the chopsticks to show roughly the side of a wing. "You can see there's more of an angle, and when it's moving forward the air is going to hit the bottom." She grins, glad to show something akin to math. "The air goes over the tiny space, relatively, up top, really fast, but it's going to find it exponentially harder to go over the bottom because of the angle. So it pushes upward, trying to get through. The faster the plane goes, the more upward it's forced. I'm going to use that to entirely remodel my work when I return home." Sighing, she wonders aloud, "Assuming I get home. It's a long walk from here."
Fairy Lamya	This time it's Mie's turn to lean forward to study the model that Entrapta is presenting to her. Her brows furrow at the explanation and once it's done she says, hesitantly, "I... see." Clearly, she doesn't. "This is unlike how wings work where you push the air down, yes?" She looks up at Entrapta curiously. "Where is home? Perhaps instead of walking you can take the train?"
Entrapta	That response makes Entrapta pause. She looks at Mie, raising an eyebrow, then says, "I can see I need to start at a different point in this conversation." Which is her way of saying she's not making sense to somebody to which she's attempting to converse. Then, she sighs. "I don't think I can accurately point to a direction, to get home. The math doesn't work out. But realistically it'd be a bit long by train, as well." She pauses to whisper, "I don't actually know what a train is yet." Then she picks up two chopsticks and looks at Mie, eating. And tries to get them into her fingers in the same fashion, grumbling about simple skills.
Fairy Lamya	Mie nods in sympathy. "I think I understand," she says. "My home is difficult to get to as well seeing as normal means of transportation is not enough to get there. I do not miss it, however," she scowls. "It is full of annoying little people." She watches Entrapta fumble with the chopsticks for a bit before offering, "Here. Perhaps this will help." She takes two of the chopsticks out of the pile and the hairband, as well as one of the wrappers that the chopsticks came in. "This was shown to me when I first came to this land," she explains as she rolls up the paper and sticks it between the back end of the chopsticks, tying them all together with the hairband. "It helped me get used to this means of eating." As for trains, well, "Imaging a carriage that's stuck in ruts only able to move in the direction the ruts are going." She shrugs, "It is like that but in reverse."
Entrapta	The assistance to her chopstick skills is appreciated, and with a bit of work Entrapta is shortly trying to pick up other chopsticks with them. She seems distracted, but after a moment or twain she pauses in what she's doing. She seems to be thinking, but in reality she's reviewing the words that have been spoken. Eidetic memory, but only when called for. "That does not help as much as you think it does," She says softly. "I can think of several ways to reverse that concept. The ruts could be upward, the carriages could be inside-out or backwards, the carriage could only go places that the ruts don't go to. Just off the beginning of my thoughts, there are likely many others." She nods, the statement having made a modicum of sense in her thoughts. "Can you explain which of the options is relevant?"
Fairy Lamya	Mie watches Entrapta with the chopsticks passively as she eats her food. She doesn't offer any feedback, just letting the girl across from her experiment with the simple tool. When she explains that Mie's explanation isn't as simple as she thought, Mie scowls. "It is the one where the ruts go upwards," she says. She's about halfway bringing some popcorn chicken to her mouth when her phone gives her an insistent ping. Scowling she drops the chicken back on her plate and pulls out her phone, and the message displayed only causes her to scowl even further. "Curse you, Joker," she growls softly. "Will you never give me a moment of peace?" She lets out a weary sigh and stows away the phone. "Unfortunately, I must take my leave," she says, pushing the tray of food across the table towards Entrapta. "You may partake of my food. It would be a shame for it to go to waste." She stands up and nods, "Good day." and with that, she stomps out of the restaurant.
Entrapta	Entrapta looks up as the lady leaves. She has never heard of Joker, but it sounds like an important word. She'll have to ask about that one. Maybe it's a person who likes to make people laugh. So, she tries the food. One bite can't hurt, right? Right? Wrong! "Hot, hot hot!" Well. That, too was an experiment. And it FAILED HER! Darn you, science, you evil mistress! (I never said that, science. Take me back, I love you forever...)