Chapter 23 p20 – Brought home a bird and left it at your feet
May11
Camellia: Reseda! Down here!
Where did you find the Bearded Vulture?!
Reseda (mouth full): Woo vhi khoo fhum ah mhu hwuff?
*Where did you find a new dress?
(PTOOEY)
Camellia: Drop it . . . good girl!
Reseda: Purr.
Lightning: I haven’t seen the Cat in years . . . I’ve never seen you. Who are you people?
Camellia: I’m Camellia. We’re friends-of-friends of Jany. Remember how you tried to tell her who your Master was? We found his contact info on the Heidelberg website, and I challenged him over the phone.
That is such a cat move, really it is.
We are about to find out if cellphones work in Battlespace.
The interaction “real” space – battlespace is odd. From a technical viewpoint it should not be possible to use a cellphone. A walkie-talkie should work, as everything needed should transition, a cellphone needs working towers (and appropriate sim cards), which should not be available. Using the infrastructure of the real world on the other hand should not be possible, as this supposedly happens out of time, so there is simply no time to do it. Never mind relativistic effects on the waves and so on.
BUT it is magic, so who knows? (besides the creator of the comic). I assume any contact with Heidelberg simply happens between combat. Effectively the high-tech variant of a courier.
It has been pointed out that Battlespace is not like a real place. Remember the time Cohen and the bunny’s previous owner made a battle, and Cohen was in different clothes? The place conforms to the humans’ idea of places and space, thus if they expect their cellphones to work, they’ll work.
I like to think that Camellia possesses the superpower to assemble a new outfit at a moment’s notice, possibly through use of hammerspace.