"Adri won't let me."
???: "But she said if you fixed the hover-"
"But what about Peony's broken portscreen? Or-or the old gard 8.2-"
???: "But she doesn't even have a garden anymore-"
"That's not the point-as long as she can think of more chores for me to do, she'll keep finding ways to stop me from going-"
???: "But-but why...?"
"Oh I dunno, maybe to keep her cyborg ward from showing up at the ball and embarrassing her? You know she doesn't want to be associated with my "Eccentricities", as she calls them. It doesn't matter-we'll have the whole apartment to ourselves, and we can watch it on the big portscreen in the living room. How does that sound?"
???: "I suppose that sounds nice..."
