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*Holds my hand to the portal, changing its color, and walks through*

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*Follows you in*

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*Shrugs and follows you as well*

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*We end up in a sterile white environment, surrounded by haphazardly positioned machines, screens, and exposed wiring*
Welcome to my one lab equipped to work with souls. Pardon the mess.

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You say “one lab” like we’d expect many for this sort of thing.

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Ah, but the equipment may exist between several. Unfortunately, the others largely lack that capability.

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I don’t take it this place gets much use either.

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It’s a work in progress.
*Walks to the wiring and connects two exposed cables, binding them with magic, and the lab springs to life*

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When was the last time work progressed here?

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A serious development effort? Only about a hundred years or so. As for the last time I’ve used it at all, it hasn’t been an unreasonably long time.

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Seems a little unpolished compared to the sort of facility I had pegged as your standard.

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It’s substandard—as I mentioned, a work in progress. But for this type of maintenance, I have little choice.

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If it works, it works.

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And most of it does. To its credit, the lab was much more organized before the renovation.

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Well let’s see how well it works then. Need any extra hands operating anything?

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I wouldn’t mind extra eyes. Where is Melody at the moment?

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With Tempo.

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With Tempo.

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*Nods*
Here, I've got her.
*Holds out my hands, materializing the spinning core of data*

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Ah, I see. She's currently deactivated.
*Puts on a cybernetic glove and holds it over the rhomboid, as a blue energy arcs across the fingertips and traps the data inside*

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*Watches intently with great interest*

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Please bear with me.
*Places the data into a device that looks like a hydraulic press, which slams down, cleanly separating the data from the soul and projecting a blue bubble onto the screen, filled with an assortment of shapes and sizes, further comprised of miniscule particles*