[MEANWHILE, STILL JUST, STABBING THE CABINET OVER HERE, until there's kind of a thunk noise and Mae emerges just holding up a square piece of wood over her head.]
Aha!
[why is Mae ever left to her own devices]
It had a false bottom.
[shoves herself right back into the cabinet, maybe there are more snacks???
and then, with the casual levity of someone who has never seen an action movie in her life before, never mind a little electric box-shaped thing with wires sticking out of it and a little analog clock on the screen:] Sooooo we've gooot ffffifteen, fourteen, thirteen seconds to figure out what this does.
no subject
Aha!
[why is Mae ever left to her own devices]
It had a false bottom.
[shoves herself right back into the cabinet, maybe there are more snacks???
and then, with the casual levity of someone who has never seen an action movie in her life before, never mind a little electric box-shaped thing with wires sticking out of it and a little analog clock on the screen:] Sooooo we've gooot ffffifteen, fourteen, thirteen seconds to figure out what this does.