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There is one Lyle Norg, in the bar, at a table. He wandered down from the upstairs a few minutes ago, in hopes of finding something interesting - but it's hard to find something interesting when you're feeling restless.

There are so many things he could find to be entertained by, but in the end, apparently he's settled for his own devices - staring intently as his own hand as he turns it invisible and then back again. Invisible... back again.... invisible.... you get the picture.

Might you come and entertain him? He's not doing such a good job by himself.

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'You either,' Sally says, sliding into the seat across from him, 'are extremely bored or entertained far too easily.'

She is exempt from the entertained category because being entertained and interested are different things, yes they are.

"It may be possible that it's both."

Were the two mutually exclusive?

'Frequently when people are bored, repetitive behaviours are an unconscious attempt to relieve the feeling, not necessarily a source of amusement.'

She grins. 'Of course, that isn't necessarily true for everyone.'

Trying to get pencils stuck in the ceiling tiles can be very entertaining, after all!

"It could also be training," Lyle says, turning his hand invisible once more. He leaves it that way for a moment longer.

That's... not quite true, really. Going invisible is like stretching a muscle, for him; it's like visiting an old friend. It would never really disappear from his capabilities.

But he never said it was true, did he? Just that it might be.

'Training?' Sally arches an eyebrow. 'Where I come from, that would definitely not be considered training, specifically because we can't do it.'

Going down to the firing range, well. That would be training. But not making oneself disappear (unless it was in a figurative manner to practise a quick escape from Une's wrath).

"Yes, but I can do it. So wouldn't it count as training for me?"

Especially in a place like the Legion, where everyone can do something out of the ordinary.

'My point is that I lack a common frame of reference.'

She eyes his hand.

'That does strike me as a very useful ability.'

"It's saved my life more than once."

'I can imagine.'

She extends her own, quite visible, hand.

'I'm Sally, by the by.'

Lyle shakes her hand. His own is visible now as well.

"Lyle."

'A pleasure, Lyle.'

She still looks curious.

'Such drastic methods of defense are necessary, in your line of work?'

"It's not just a defense." After all, Lyle wouldn't have been a spy for so long if it was. "It has many more uses."

Sally nods; she can see where being able to disappear completely would be advantageous.

'See, I'm just used to having people shooting guns at me. By the time I could turn invisible, they'd probably know where I was by that point.'

But it would come in handy for intelligence work.

"I've been shot at before. That's why I've learned to dodge."

-- well. That didn't, actually, always work. Which was why Lyle was lucky that the big bad villains didn't generall choose to use guns.

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