I don't see any industrial markers. [Borrowed favors she'd expect; everyone likes to think bartering is a dead system outside the impoverished and unsettled, but the truth of the matter is it thrives in politics — entire nations bought and sold over nothing more than promises.
For a moment her brow creases, lips thinned out as her stare seems to want to burn through that little piece of constructed technology laid out on the floor in front of her— and then she turns her attention to him, expression wholly painted with sincerity:]
Gabe, I don't recognize any of it.
[There are less than fifty manufacturers in the world capable of mass-producing similar hardware to a country like hers. All of them familiar, all of them easily identified. Something like this? It shouldn't be possible, let alone happening right on their doorstep.]
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For a moment her brow creases, lips thinned out as her stare seems to want to burn through that little piece of constructed technology laid out on the floor in front of her— and then she turns her attention to him, expression wholly painted with sincerity:]
Gabe, I don't recognize any of it.
[There are less than fifty manufacturers in the world capable of mass-producing similar hardware to a country like hers. All of them familiar, all of them easily identified. Something like this? It shouldn't be possible, let alone happening right on their doorstep.]