On the plus side, she may or may not also have the vampire shields he made tucked away just in case so that Nikola will not need to generate a constant magnetic field to block it out this time. She also has the synchrotronic light source tucked away that he used the last time, but they might not need it this time if he doesn't knock out the power with another EM pulse. Who comes prepared? Helen Magnus does and at least this time she knows some of what to expect.
"'Reasonably understandable' might have been enough for Henry, but it may not work against our lovable genie," she points out, though her lips curl upwards in amusement. His response was perfect, exactly what she would have expected. With their song and dance perfectly intact as usual, she sets several of the small books out of the way and picks up the one she knows she will need.
With luck, he really won't knock out the power and force her to call him Dobby again.
"All right, what symbols do we have here?" she muses, trying to match up what she sees in the air with what she sees on the page. They need a password is what it boils down to. The trick is to ask what sort of password the ancient Praxians would have set up. Helen's heart misses half a beat at the thought of the Praxians. If she could have found a way to save Ranna... or her father...
She shakes herself inwardly and the moment passes. Not that she thinks for an instant that Nikola did not notice, but that remains among the long list of things that do not require commentary.
"Do you think one of these is the symbol for holy water?" she asks after a few seconds of consideration, still looking through the book in her hands and sounding for all the world as though she is commenting on the weather.
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"'Reasonably understandable' might have been enough for Henry, but it may not work against our lovable genie," she points out, though her lips curl upwards in amusement. His response was perfect, exactly what she would have expected. With their song and dance perfectly intact as usual, she sets several of the small books out of the way and picks up the one she knows she will need.
With luck, he really won't knock out the power and force her to call him Dobby again.
"All right, what symbols do we have here?" she muses, trying to match up what she sees in the air with what she sees on the page. They need a password is what it boils down to. The trick is to ask what sort of password the ancient Praxians would have set up. Helen's heart misses half a beat at the thought of the Praxians. If she could have found a way to save Ranna... or her father...
She shakes herself inwardly and the moment passes. Not that she thinks for an instant that Nikola did not notice, but that remains among the long list of things that do not require commentary.
"Do you think one of these is the symbol for holy water?" she asks after a few seconds of consideration, still looking through the book in her hands and sounding for all the world as though she is commenting on the weather.