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[runningred]

The road to recovery is a slow one. Physical or emotional. But Charles was right – it helps to keep busy, keep moving. So Jay’s having a building day down in the garage.

He’s working his training ‘bots mostly. He kinda broke two of them sparring. And of course, there’s always his motorbike to fiddle with. He also has a bunch of smaller projects spread out on his benches. And as always, the music is up loud. He is however, a little more vigilant than normal and less likely to be snuck up. Unless you’re really trying.

Botherable if you don’t mind being asked to pass a spanner.

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[immortalthief]

A tall blonde woman wearing black crop pants and a white cotton yoga shirt walks into the garage.

She glances around the room and says to herself, Milliways, or anyone that might be listening, "Huh, when did this get here?"

[runningred]

"The garage or the workshop?" Jay asks, looking up from his work. "As far as I know the garage has been here forever but the workshop's my addition."

[immortalthief]

"Both" she says, "Guess I never found it before." Milliways is a big place.

Walking over she takes a look at what he is working on. Since he seems busy she just offers her name,"I'm Amanda."

[runningred]

"Welcome to the garage." Jay chuckles, "Don't try too hard to focus on the horizon, it'll mess with you." If there were outer walls out there in the darkness. they were impossible to see. The garage went on forever in every direction.

He wipes the grease off his hand and offers it to her with a smile. "Jay. Nice to meet you. I guess I'm the Bar's unofficial mechanic."

[immortalthief]

Amanda happily accepts his hand, "Thank you for the warning." she makes sure to avert her eyes.

"Nice to meet you too." looking around, "I never thought that we would need a garage here, but I guess if we have stable a garage makes sense."

[runningred]

"According to the stories I hear, there's every vehicle ever made parked down here. It's pretty incredible. I've been out two weeks ride that direction." He points to the north. "And I've never seen a wall. Found some pretty awesome stuff in my explorations."

[immortalthief]

Amanda's eyes gaze back over the garage to appreciate what she can see, "Perhaps I will take a journey of my own." always up for an adventure.

"Have you seen any space craft?"

[runningred]

"Let me know before you do. It's easy to get lost once you're out of sight of the lift. I'll set you up a tracker that'll alway lead you back."

"Quite a few, yeah." He kicks a little laptop into life and pulls up his maps. "8km south, south west. There's a whole aisle of them. Mostly little personal flyers by the size of them but I'm sure there are bigger ones somewhere."

[immortalthief]

"That is kind of you."

Amanda makes note of where to find them, "That is great! I love space travel. Have you done any?" something she has only been able to do on occasion because of her time at Milliways.

[katyafeline]

Katya came back for the motorcycles. Actually, she came back because she needs a time out (that propensity for fighting above her weight class hasn't been knocked out of her yet, and Skellig gets annoyed when she fights when injured), so she's back for pelmeni, and vodka, and a few good vibes, and...

Well.

The motorbikes.

So she's pulled out the oldest, most beat-up version of something similar to her old bike in Moscow, and she's giving the poor thing a tune-up. Engine grease is healing, right?

That's what she's going to tell Skellig.

She'll pretend it's like fish oil.

[runningred]

Jay nudges a toolkit her direction with a smile, glad of the company.

[katyafeline]

She grins back, snagging a crescent wrench and shifting awkwardly to get a better angle of attack at the engine. Her booted feet twitch in time to the music - it's not Queen, but not every song can be sung by Freddie Mercury.

Sadly.

[runningred]

Jay nods to the stereo and the little mp3 player attached. "Pick whatever you like. There's plenty of music on there." Not to mention plenty of Queen.

[katyafeline]

"Spasiba." She acknowledges, pushing herself to her feet to go investigate the device.




A few minutes later there's a startled squawk of protest when the tiny machine produces dubstep.

[runningred]

Jay flinches at bit. It's up way too loud for that. He grabs the remote and turns it down. "Try the work folder rather than the work-out folder."

[katyafeline]

Rapidly she manages to get the machine to produce a bit of country, something heavy metal, and Justin Bieber.

After that last one, she mutters something dire-sounding under her breath while glaring daggers at the little gadget.

She is promptly rewarded with 'I'm Going Slightly Mad'. It's good enough, so she leaves the player in peace and heads back to her bike.

[runningred]

Jay shivers and puts his spanner down with care. "I'm sorry. I have to veto that one. It's... bad associations." He's clearly shaken by it as he switches to a new song, staying with Queen but going to '39 instead.

[fairy_fixit]

The wings of a Zanaris fairy aren't built for stealth. Fixit wouldn't be able to sneak up on anyone. Then again, loud music.

That buzzing sound then, if he hears it, is Fairy Fixit exploring the garage to see what new interesting vehicles she bumps into today. Eventually she comes around to were Jay is working.

"Hello Jay," she greets. "What are you working on?"

[runningred]

"Hey Fixit." Jay looks up for a sec, his eyes covered by magnifying goggles. "Just trying to repair my training robots. I got a little rough when I was sparring." In fact he broke the hand clean off one and is having to carefully reattach the wiring.

[fairy_fixit]

"Oh, neat! Do you need any help?" despite her size, she can lift a decent amount of weight as long as she can get a grip on it.

[runningred]

"Actually yeah, you have better hands for this than me. Can you see that wire there?" He points to a frayed length of copper vanishing into the glove of the 'bot. "I can't reach it well enough to reconnect it. Are you able to get in and splice a new wire onto it?"

[fairy_fixit]

She buzzes in for a closer look. "Yes, that looks doable." She settles near the problem joint. "Can you hand me the new wire?"

[runningred]

Jay nods and hands her a length of wiring. While she's on that, he finds some electrical tape to cover the repair. "I'll have to rewire it completely at some stage but this should do for now."

[fairy_fixit]

Due to her small hands she is actual able to braid the wire together somewhat instead of just twisting the bundles of wire around eachother. "There," she says when she is done. "Lots of surface area contact is what's good for electrical connections if I remember but this might get loose if it moves around a lot. What that tool called?"

She thinks.

"Do you have a crimper or something else to give this wire a good squeeze?" she asks.

[runningred]

"Yeah, but they might be a bit big to get in there. I've got some needle nosed pliers. Wanna give them a go?" He passes them over to her.