"I think I'll try something even simpler than that," Matilda decides.
She's done just enough chemistry to know that the structurally simplest solid objects are crystals. The first one that comes to mind is quartz.
A perfectly clear, perfectly regular, thumb-sized quartz crystal drops out of the air, bounces off the raspberry, and rolls to a stop at the edge of the table.
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Date: 2012-05-12 11:15 pm (UTC)She's done just enough chemistry to know that the structurally simplest solid objects are crystals. The first one that comes to mind is quartz.
A perfectly clear, perfectly regular, thumb-sized quartz crystal drops out of the air, bounces off the raspberry, and rolls to a stop at the edge of the table.