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Except the Infinityglass

Today we’d hit on all the ions before she asked me to eat a late breakfast with her

"How could I refuse? No, I mean, I really can’t Not you You’re the boss"

She popped up off the ground and held out her hands like she was going to help h you by at least a hundred pounds"

She rolled her eyes and held out her hands in a ave in She pulled rin she gave estion

Talk about conflict

The Infinityglass started as a thing, then a person, and then morphed into a vibrant personality, but the past teeks had humanized Hallie in a way I hadn’t been prepared for I still didn’t know enough about her, but noas on a hundred different levels, and they didn’t even include the scientific angle This was probably not good

"How do you feel about bacon?" She pulled a strand of dark hair around her finger, twisting and untwisting

"Passionate" I followed her down the stairs

"I knew you had good taste Speaking of passions, you never told lass in the first place"

I followed her into the kitchen

"My dad In the bedtilass was shaped like an hourglass, and the sands inside were powerful They could reverse time, stop it, speed it up It could transfer abilities between people who had a tiic that could be used to cure all the world’s ills"

She turned away from me and opened the bread box "The perfect fantasy story"

"I kno goofy that sounds, especially now that I’ve , but it ain’t sand"

She was joking, but the set of her shoulders told oodon an adventure with hilass, kind of the way people chased the Holy Grail"

She popped four pieces of bread in the toaster and said, "I fart in your general direction"

"What?"

"Monty Python Holy Grail ‘I fart in your general direction’ You need an education, big boy"

"I know Monty Python and the Holy Grail" The girl continued to iame "I just can’t believe you know it"

"I never leave ood e and honey froainst the edge "I have to apologize We’re out of bacon"

"You don’t have to make me breakfast," I said

"Sure I do My humanity stole your quest potential I feel like I owe you"

"The quest just looks different than I thought it would" A lot different "It’s more complicated than I expected it to be"

"It sure is" She stared attime