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Mzatal’s brows drew together, and he pursed his lips in thought "There has not been opportunity since he has been here On Earth, I do not know"

I frowned and shook my head "Doubtful on Earth either, if he ith Katashi" I gave Mzatal a penetrating glare "Idris needs a girlfriend or at least needs to get laid And neither one of them needs to be reement that it should not be you," he replied fir atypical errors in his work" He tapped the pile of papers on the table "As in this fro to a suuy But" I sighed and shookforbeyond friendship"

Mzatal gave a decisive nod "I will e this It cannot continue to interfere with his work Too much is at stake"

I raised an eyebrow "How do you intend to e it?"

"I will tell him the truth and outline the consequences"

I was surprised Mzatal didn’t shrivel away froave hi on me because you forbid it?"

Mzatal frowned, contele on," he said, as if he actually knehat he was talking about "If he knows you have no interest and sees how his distractions have affected his work, he will subside enough for now"

My withering look becalacial "Boss, you’re completely awesome in many ways, but you are so off-base with this it’s not even funny" I rolled my eyes "I’ve already ramped ‘No Interest’ up to eleven on the dial and, at this point, he doesn’t care if his work suffers" I took a big gulp of coffee, then ran led hair "Let me deal with it Normally I’m not into direct confrontation with this sort of shit, but there’s isn’t enough tiarded me with that da Great Lords weren’t , but it had to be said

After a long ave a nod "You are correct It will serve better--for all of us--if you are the one to do this"

"Daave hi, and that I should sihed and shook my head "Does he have some sort of favorite food or escape or activity?"

Mzatal appeared to consider for a moment "His focal activities in the last es: the cliff stairs, free cli He loses himself and finds hi for fruit ices" He cocked an eyebrow at"Have sos ready," I told him I threw the covers off and headed to the bath cha when I was neck deep in the water that I’d been nude Oh well Making Mzatal seeto confront Idris

After the awesome bath, I headed to the workroo Idris, but it needed to be done, and especially before Mzatal attempted to do it his way I snorted in a naiveté Forbid the crush Right Had the dude never read Root busy Mzatal had taughtof the beacon, and even if I couldn’t align the thing yet, I could practice setting it up It was new and pretty da Except for the last part Every tiress from the tenth to the eleventh, the whole series destabilized and collapsed Every single tiht I had it The tenth ring held stable I paused, took a deep breath, and began to trace the eleventh, and before I could even blink the whole thing unwound and dissipated "Fucking shitholes!"

Solance back to see Idris "I can’t get the stupid thing to set," I said and brusquely started tracing anew

"You’re starting out wrong, and by the tiated the error ten ti one connection," he said, as he moved in closer "I’ll, um, show you if you want"

"Sure, I’d appreciate that" No denying he knehat the hell he was doing And then we’d have The Talk Yeah, that was going to be fun Sigh

Idris ht He looked down at Mzatal’s notes on the table "Think of each sigil as a section of code in a coram," he said "If you don’t tell it how to move on to the next part, it won’t work"