Belle recovered first, because Belle recovered from everything first. She turned to a fresh page in her notebook. "Sequential environments with transitional reset periods. That's actually more efficient than a single shared space. Each person gets a customized setting tuned to their preferences, which increases engagement and accelerates the resonance coupling that the quest requires for field stabilization." She tapped her pen against the page. "I should go first because I have the most specific requirements and the longest emotional recovery time from the ironwork situation."
"I should go first," Addison said, "because if I have to watch three other women go before me I will vibrate out of my own skin and that is not an exaggeration."
