Cybele (on video): Blehh!
Cohen (on video): I don’t think of it as “magic.” It’s more like hacking. I mimicked the language used in its contract, then inserted a few extra lines. The principle is simple, even if the execution sometimes isn’t.
The cell I have prepared is even simpler. It relies on physics, nothing else.
Reseda: Ooh, I remember testing that cell. Never could get out of it, even the first time.
Still there, Timothy? I can’t get big enough to explode it by pressure, or small enough to squeeze through the vent. I could try to expand a paw in the vent itself. But I think my bones would break before the metal did . . .
Timothy: Y-you don’t have to go that far!
Dr. Lopez: She calls you “Timothy”, not “Master”? Unusual! Unless “Timothy” was not the name you used on the contract?
Timothy: Um . . . no, it wasn’t.
Dr. Lopez: You don’t say! What name did you use?
Timothy: . . . Do you really need to know that?
Patrick: He contracted as Camellia, right?
Reseda: Of course.
Patrick: . . . Did the vent have bars at that point? Because if not, all you had to do to get out was dislocate your pelvis.
Reseda: Well, sure . . .
“We detain Beings…with SCIENCE!”
And we still haven’t seen the language of the contract, since it was hidden from us when Bianca made it. It seems to imply that a lawyer for a Master might be quite powerful. I also wonder if you can customize the contract as you’re making it, either through obvious methods like wording or subtle methods like tone and thought. If it’s subtle, that would immediately explain the difference in personality and behavior Beings demonstrate.
Uh-oh… I think Timothy may have made a terrible mistake when agreeing to those tests.
Cohen’s a BAMF.