Only when the subject of her method of time-travel is raised does Miss Persson become a little vague

[una_persson]

Characters: Una Persson, Orion Pax, and OPEN.
Date: Mid-October.
Location: Assorted.
Situation: Una pays Orion's lab a visit, and does other stuff too. Thread starters are in the comments; feel free to request one or start one too.
Warnings: Will update if needed.

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[una_persson]

Una wasn't used to feeling intimidated—though even people who actively tried to do so rarely fixed her with as much intensity of focus as Orion was doing now. Neverthless she kept her chin up and her gaze steady, determined to wait him out.

There might have been the tiniest relieved exhale when he finally spoke, however.

"If that's the case, then I am very much in your debt."

[optout]

"If this ends up helping the rest of us then I owe you more than you can imagine," Orion exhaled through the nose with a loud snort with an emotion that straddled derision and amusement.

If Una managed the impossible and used this technology for the betterment of those here then he couldn't even begin to voice what a relief that would be to his weighted conscious.

"Ore-1," Orion explain as he disappeared into some dark corner of the lab only to return with a small vile containing something yellow and luminescent, "Warped linear time for an entire planet."

He extended to the vile to Una, "This is just a sample of purified energon native to my world altered to recreate Ore-1, but it should give you what you need."

[una_persson]

She accepted it gingerly, cautious as ever where temporal anomalies were concerned. As she took it, she noticed that on the instrument on her wrist, a dial that had not moved since she arrived in Keeliai slowly came to life. What that meant was uncertain until she had time to investigate further, but it looked enough like progress that she'd take it.

"Thank you," she said. "I'll be very careful with it."

[optout]

"I hope some good can come of it," Orion replied "And placing my trust in humans is a lesson I've been hurting to learn again."

While he considered the Ore something of an olive branch he doubted Una would be the first or last human he'd end up working with out of necessity. Unbeknownst to her, Orion was really hedging his bets on this hoping it would disprove that any of their technology in human hands only lead to ruin.

"I wish you the best."

[una_persson]

Humans gets the slightest of raised eyebrows, but Una is by now all too accustomed to people not being what they seem, and it seems rude to pry further. "Then I shall endeavour not to break that trust," she says. It's the sort of thing she might sometimes say lightly, but here her expression and tone are sincere. "And I shall keep you informed as to the results of my research. Perhaps it will help you in turn."

[optout]

"Please do, Ms. Persson," Orion bowed at the waist as he knew this was a sign of human supplication, "I await any information concerning your experiment."

From just this brief encounter, Orion knew Una could be counted on to be nothing if not sure of herself and honest in her intent. Truly, he hoped what he could offer would come as a benefit to those human and not lost in Keelail

[una_persson]

"You'll have it." She smiled. "Thank you, Mr Pax." She tucked the vial away in an inside pocket of her coat, where it would be safe, and turned to go.