45.2 Meanwhile?

SHEN

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"Will this work? Or will this work?"

Flitting through the stalls, Shen found herself immersed in the realm of futuristic tools and doodads on her quest to find the right stuff to dismantle that Marquean doohickey that they found inside that Vermes. Already, her mind was ablaze with what she could do with that spherical device, even if she didn't really know what it did yet in the first place.

"Oh! Maybe this?!" Shen excitedly asked herself as she hefted what seemed to be some kind of wrench. "It won't replace [Fixit], but it looks like I can use dis on other things!"

"Can you just buy something, kid?"