Eljay primly closed the manuscript, eyes wide. The blush on her newly-biomodded face as red as her modest costume.
"Van Loan..." She shook her head, the very image of a Wholesome Disney Ingenue who'd read her first non-Disney script after turning 18. Her blush intensified into the incandescent. "The tech is possible... and extant." She fretted cutely. "I can't reveal my customers or exactly what they had me build..."
She flashed a winning smile. "But Lime doesn't have to worry about her college education. At all."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
"Van Loan..." She shook her head, the very image of a Wholesome Disney Ingenue who'd read her first non-Disney script after turning 18. Her blush intensified into the incandescent. "The tech is possible... and extant." She fretted cutely. "I can't reveal my customers or exactly what they had me build..."
She flashed a winning smile. "But Lime doesn't have to worry about her college education. At all."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll