[a few uncanny dodges and some bit-back cusses later, and Knife finds themself standing before some hacked-and-slashed hunks of buzzing metal.
see? this is way easier than doing all this shit by themself! and it's even cleaner than what Erast would leave behind (a paste) or even Valness (crushed by hooves).]
Nice. [that's about as close a 'thanks' or a thumbs-up as Shadow's gonna get; Knife unbuttons their coat so they can rummage around and procure a fistful of scalpels and tweezers wrapped in a cloth, laying it out as they pop a squat next to one of the bodies.]
Keep an eye out for any of those stupid birds or someone who seems like a killjoy, okay? Lemme see...
[they pick at the bolts with their fingernails, opting to unscrew them with the scalpel and jimmy the panel protecting the guts off.]
Huh. Gnarly. [clockwork this is not; old man Solomon's tutelage won't really translate well here, will it? ah, well. time to poke and pull at some things until both their and Shadow's earpieces start buzzing with naughty notes from Aurora.]
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see? this is way easier than doing all this shit by themself! and it's even cleaner than what Erast would leave behind (a paste) or even Valness (crushed by hooves).]
Nice. [that's about as close a 'thanks' or a thumbs-up as Shadow's gonna get; Knife unbuttons their coat so they can rummage around and procure a fistful of scalpels and tweezers wrapped in a cloth, laying it out as they pop a squat next to one of the bodies.]
Keep an eye out for any of those stupid birds or someone who seems like a killjoy, okay? Lemme see...
[they pick at the bolts with their fingernails, opting to unscrew them with the scalpel and jimmy the panel protecting the guts off.]
Huh. Gnarly. [clockwork this is not; old man Solomon's tutelage won't really translate well here, will it? ah, well. time to poke and pull at some things until both their and Shadow's earpieces start buzzing with naughty notes from Aurora.]