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[There's another pause filled with just the sound of her quiet breathing, before she switches the feed to video. It's not pointed at her though, but at a table. After a second a small hand places a thin, plastic vial in front of the camera. It's filled with a shimmering blue-green liquid.]

We called it Mako. It's...a form of liquid life energy. On my world, Shinra distilled it from the lifestream but...

This world does not seem to have one.

Lifestream?

[He sits forward and seems to scrutinize the small vial, studying it as closely as he can from the video.]

So, say this life energy is non-renewable-- something like oil here-- as well as not existing here besides that sample there, you think it can be synthesized? Your also aware that any synthetic version may have side effects if your body has adjusted to it over an extended period of time.

Yes. It is the...basis for all life on my world. [Shelke sighs as her hand is withdrawn from the screen, leaving just the vial.] Science does not seem to work the same way here.

[There's a beat, because she had considered that.]

Given that my alternative is death, if some kind of alternative can be created, I am prepared to deal with whatever side effects may occur.

[She says this all very matter-of-factly. As though either she doesn't care, or she's simply come to terms with it.]

Fair enough... [He seems to consider that response seriously.]

I can't say that this will be easy, or even possible. It's hard to say what can be done without taking a closer look, but I can say I can do my best to make this work. I give no guarantees, but you might be surprised just what science can do here.

I have been researching what I can through this world's network. I have a few theories but...I am not familiar enough with the science here to really be...optimistic yet.

[Shelke was almost never optimistic that was just silly.]

But thank you. I have asked, uh, some other people also. [Since her time was rather limited here.]

I will bring you a sample of this?

Well, the good thing about science is that it exists here the same way it does everywhere else. All it takes is finding someone who does understand it.

[He sits back in his chair, eyes still on the vial.]

I imagine in your position I would have reached out where I could have, too. But either way, you can drop it off here at my building. Nothing special. I'll take a look at it.

And... friendly word of advice. [He says, finally looking at her again.] If one of those people you asked for help was Lex Luthor, I'd reconsider. Nothing good can come from anything he's offering.

That is not a name that was suggested to me.

[But she adds it to her list. She can't exactly afford to be picky right now.]

And I hope you are right. But...as I said, science is not the same here. Rules that I have taken for certainty...do not seem to apply here at all.

[That's... not how science works, but he's not really in the mood to have a debate about it, so he lets it go.]

Anyway, are you having any symptoms that I should know about? Withdrawal symptoms or any kind, a decrease in activity or energy... do you know what kind of a time crunch we're working with here?

[There's more things in video game logic than have been dreamed up in your comic book science, batman!]

Uhm. Not as of yet. I had a supply with me when I arrived, I have been rationing it.

I am not certain what the side effects will be, I have not had to do this before.

[Look, when you start involving things like souls in a liquid inside the planet you're mixing all sorts of weird spiritual magical nonsense and that's weird and he's not a fan.]

I meant more right now, since you're taking reduced dosages, but that's... [He sighs.] We'll work with it.

If, of course, you do start to feel symptoms of withdrawal... lethargy of any kind, symptoms of a lack of this "medication," for lack of a better term, you'll of course have to tell me immediately.

[But that's the normal science, this non-soul world of lifeless rockness is the weird thing!]

I will monitor myself and tell you if anything changes, yes. [Said very matter of factly.] I have been living with this for a decade. I will know when something changes.

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