Roxie body

  Roxie giggled. “I already prepared my body. It took time, and patient shaping, but I created another facility directly below this one. I hollowed out the space, gathered materials, and gradually recruited help from outside.”

  “Simple machines built more complicated machines,” Abram said.

  “You get the idea!” Roxie shouted joyfully. “And, let’s be honest, a brain like mine deserves an incredible body.”

  “Your brain is kind of big,” Cole said.

  “That might provide a hint about the rest of me,” Roxie said menacingly.

  “Your body is underneath us?” Constance asked.

  “I can summon it at will,” Roxie said. “First I must finish with you people.”

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