“Is it going?” Dani impatiently flew in a circle. <Yes, but it’ll take a while to gather Essence.> I paused a moment. <Didn’t we talk about this earlier?> “You mumbled a few things under your breath when I asked you questions about it. Does that count?” she replied on just this side of civility. I felt a bit sheepish. <I get a bit… focused.> “A bit? Okay, and a two-mile-wide meteor tends to kill off a ‘bit’ of life upon impact,” she teased me.
