Reseda: Nobody is going to get killed.
Timothy: Thanks, Reseda. Okay, Sparrow — what do you need from me?
Sparrow: Honestly? Just keep an eye on my stuff!
The limits we know about work like this: you can only teleport to a place after you plant a sigil there to hone in on, and the better you can picture the place, the better it works.
I left a sigil at the apartment. Bianca’s hanging out with it. I’ll text you when I get there — but I haven’t seen your church enough that I’d be able to pop right back, you know?
And I don’t want to find out the hard way that Z-space fries electronics.
Timothy: You can leave your things here, sure. Did you bring a coat?
Sparrow: Hall closet.
Timothy: . . . I keep waiting for you to ask if you can take Reseda.
Sparrow: Ooh, that’s a great idea! Can I?
Last panel: the awkward feeling when someone knows you enough that they know your weird favors before you think to ask.
Wait: it is necessary for YOU to plant a sigil there, or it’s only necessary for the sigil drawn by you to BE there? The first would make space exploration harder … (I’m sure you find plenty of people having strong emotional connection to Mars.)
If it does require you to plant the sigil in a place, can “place” be interpreted as a ship or a space ship?
Considering the planet is hurtling through space at millions of miler per hour, I’m guessing the second one. Unless there’s some kind of perviously unknown range limitation or it needs the planet’s magnetic field or something.
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Sounds like you can teleport between sigils. So for my awful commute, I could have a sigil at my cubicle (been here over a decade so the emotional connection is there) and home.
So as a society will still need roads/mass transit for those places that don’t have your sigil or you haven’t been to yet, but it still has the potential to reduce a lot of daily traffic.
Sparrow: “And I don’t want to find out the hard way that Z-space fries electronics.”
I do believe those $20 phones at Walmart just found a legitimate use.
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ITYM “home”?
Timothy is so supportive of Sparrow’s bold endeavours :D