E-Mailing Hellkitten.

[vesper_verde]

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2:36 PM (02 hours ago) TO: hellkitten@avengers.org FROM: TheBatsSupplier SUBJECT: Meeting
A mutual acquaintance has informed me you were looking for an upgrade. I may be interested in outfitting. Please reply if still interested. I will provide a time and place to meet.
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[hellkitten]

"Able to be drawn back. So I can use the lines to swing if I need to, or to grab something. Although dart gun claws sound pretty cool, too."

Liza tilted her chin back a little.

"Night vision, yeah. Maybe some protection. Mom always said I had a hard head, but..."

[vesper_verde]

"I can have a skullcap built in. It should at least keep the top of your head in one piece." He scribbled down the measurements.

"Which hand is your dominant one? Your gloves will be a bit thicker than the rest of your outfit. Necessity for what you need them to do. It shouldn't have any impact on your manual dexterity."

[hellkitten]

"I'm left handed."

She held her hand up, anticipating that it was going to be measured next.

[vesper_verde]

Gloves were a lot easier for him to get a size. He placed his hand against hers. He noted how her hand sized against his and wrote it down.

"Now, pardon my hands again." He crouched down to start measuring her lower half. "Shoe size? How high or flat do you want the heel?"

[hellkitten]

"Six and a half. Not much of a heel... this isn't a comic book, I'd break my neck chasing after thugs in high heels!"

Liza laughed.

"Just enough to be a good shock absorber."

[vesper_verde]

"I never question a woman's shoe choices." He had size 14 Jimmy Choo-like shoes with a purple bow to prove it. Now, if he could ever find the woman to deliver it to.

"I can use a special material for shock absorption on the soles." He paused at having to measure the inside of her leg. "Could you hold this end for however snug you want it?"

He was so not cut out for being a tailor.

[hellkitten]

"Special material... yeah, that's good. That could be thin enough so I could dig my toes in when I climb."

The corner of Liza's mouth quirked. She was trying not to smile.

"Around my thigh, or the inseam measurement?"

[vesper_verde]

"I have something in development that should be thin enough." Though it was technically for construction worker footing. Particularly those working on highrises.

"Inseam. I think I can manage your thigh without looking like I'm getting my hands where they shouldn't be."

[hellkitten]

Liza laughed.

"I don't think anyone's watching out here in the middle of nowhere, and it's purely business anyways, but, ok."

She took the tape measure and held it against her leg.

"I'll hold the top, you can pull it against my ankle. You're all high tech and everything, why don't you invent an automated measuring thingy? Or a portable body scanner?"

[vesper_verde]

Marcelo pulled and measured. He nodded to her that he got it before scribbling it down.

"That would be handy, but some things are better done by hand. Like rolling cigars. It's an artform. Also, it's not often I get to use one of the things my aunt taught me."

[hellkitten]

Liza handed the tape measure back to him.

"Your aunt was a seamstress?"

[vesper_verde]

"My mother's sister lived in a favela and earned her living as a seamstress," he answered as he worked on finishing up the measurements.

"I spent a month living with her in the summers when I was a child."

[hellkitten]

"What's a favela?"

Liza didn't know.

"My aunt was a... nevermind. My family is hard to explain."

It did begin and end with an S, though.

[vesper_verde]

"A favela is a shanty town located inside a city. It is where a lot of the poor live in my home country. Also, where the gangs have their strongest holds." His aunt was a proud woman and had always turned down offers of places to live from Marcelo's father. Marcelo and his mother had been on their way to visit her when...

He scribbled the last numbers in and stood up. The less lingering on that point, the better for him.

"There. I will email you when I have it put together."

[hellkitten]

That explained a lot about his crusade against the local thuggery.

"Ok. Thank you, Mister Ious."

Liza headed back towards the window she came in through.

[vesper_verde]

"Be careful until I get you your upgrades, hmm?" He wrapped up the tape measure and put it back into his pocket. The notebook and pen went back into his shirt pocket.

He would leave the lamp on until she was out the window and into the night. He pondered calling Stephanie and seeing if she wanted him to pick up anything on the way home.