Thus began Katarina's quest to finish introducing air conditioning into this world while simultaneously ignoring the angel on her shoulder.
Or rather, near her shoulder.
Or rather, a few tables away from her shoulder with her wings neatly tucked behind her and her legs crossed as she jotted stuff down in her notebook, looking considerably less perplexed by all this than Katarina was.
[Either that or her poker face is incredible.]
Katarina sighed and got back to work.
For about ten minutes, it actually worked.
She was focused. The qi loop was running circular now, she had three variations of the preservation array sketched out on her parchment, and she was deep enough into whether she could bleed the excess qi into a secondary cooling layer that she forgot Eva was in the room at all.
Then Eva made a small sound.
