Check it out, the bracelet I’ve been waiting to give Leif since 2016 is finally in the comic.
Leif: I can’t stay for long today . . .
Thorn: It’s okay, I just need to give you a thing!
Hold up your hand, okay?
I want you to wear this at the party. And any other time I rent you out.
Leif: It’s so pretty! What does it do?
Thorn: It’s a gift! It —
Leif: I think you mean to say “it’s a loan.”
Thorn: I don’t . . . Why do I mean “loan”?
Leif: Because any “gift” for me will legally belong to the Embassy.
Thorn: Oh! Then it’s a loan.
Sigvard: . . . so, legally, we can’t just smash the thing. Sorry, Captain.
Sigrún: Do we want to smash it, Sigvard? How bad is it?
Sigvard: . . . not “bad” at all. According to my scans, it does exactly what Sir Thorn said it does.
Sigvard: It’s not programmed for Northern magic. On Embassy grounds, it’s safely inert. I want to keep it locked up anyway, on the “what if I missed something” principle.
Sigrún: But we let him have it for rentals?
Sigvard: We do. The big gem is a simple smartcrystal. Photo, video, net connection, emergency calls. The little ones — Protection. From a range of things.
Honestly, as often as Leif is working outside the Embassy these days . . . We should’ve issued him a thing like this.
Sigrún: I thought that’s what the microchip in his neck was for.
Sigvard: The one we use to regulate his behavior? Ma’am, servants don’t even get to touch those.
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Just to get it out of the way: The Embassy is doing basic counter-espionage stuff in regards to the bracelet as far as I’m concerned, and I’m going to presume that as far as the microchips go, the servants are allowed to do things like scratch over the spot.
“Honestly, as often as Leif is working outside the Embassy these days . . . We should’ve issued him a thing like this.”
HALL-EH-FUCKIN’-LUJAH! Sønheim showing something above bare-minimum function for their
tools indentured servants slavestemporarily embarrassed citizens.Also: “legally, we can’t just smash the thing. Sorry, Captain.”
I would think ‘just smash[ing] the thing” would be a bit overt for this particular cat-and-mouse game, unless they planned on replacing it with an exact replica they could be sure had only the stated functions.
I have a feeling the “smashing it” comment was a bit of exaggerated hyperbole, none of the people working at the embassy seem like the wanton destruction types. It might even have been a small dose of the classic “I am an intellectual computer expert and you are a shooty smashy gun person” stereotyping.
So what’s the non-crystal bit of the bracelet made out of? It looks stretchy in the big panel, but it also reminds me of braided leather kinda stuff?
I feel like this splash is the boss also saying, “I’ve been working on my hands! Witness my digit-drawing glory!”
Hope Leif won’t get into trouble for helping Thorn getting around that particular loophole.
If they would want to, he would already be in trouble.
Hasn’t Thorn given Leif gifts before, though? I guess the embassy didn’t see anything better to do with the plant.
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