Okay, Patty, I want hard confirmation that the hangar is clear.

And I'm not giving it to you because it's not true yet.

Can we make it true?

I'm about to move a volatile extraterrestrial device for the third time.

But the worst part of my morning was me and Matt closing each other's seals

and not being able to tell him what I'm about to do.

And...

We are clear, Chief. Nobody in the hangar, nobody on the whole floor.

Just me up in birds eye.

And just to triple confirm...

I'm all Lloyd suited up and extra annoyed that it's you doing this crap again when it should be me.

Hopefully nobody will have to do this again for a while.

Let's just knock it out.

Okay, holler if you need to, and, you know, while you can.

I could have handed this off to Patty, or, hell, anybody on the team I thought could handle it.

But I want Harrison feeling as much sympathy for me as possible when I make my unreasonable request later. Okay, so we know this is stupid, but let's get hands on it anyway.

Yeah, got it. Good to go.

And pulling pin number one.

And all quiet.

So far, the harp's unscheduled power-ups have only happened when we actually moved it.

But my IED mindset's going nowhere.

And pulling pin number two.

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