New costume

I waited, impatient. I'd taken twenty minutes to get my costume together, made use of the tools that were still in Rain's old room to file off the most abraded parts of my armor, and broke off one tine of the decorative arrangement at my left shoulder while trying to straighten it. Hair brushed and fixed up, costume brushed with an animal grooming brush to get the grit out.

*****

She bounced twice on the spot before turning, excited, to me.

"Thank you," I said, as I took the device. It matched the spiked crest at the top of my armor.

*****

My device gave the gold parts of my costume an intermittent glow, like sunlight from an out-of-sight source was falling on it. There were a few parts where the armor was damaged, like the broken tine at the shoulder, that the light bled out, but that almost made it better.

- Radiation 18.10