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"You know, you remind me of another inventive soul I helped some time ago. Over in America, in fact." You say, as a memory comes back to you. "One who had a similar situation of their inventions being used by another by an evil he could never have expected! Would you like to hear about him?"
Obviously, what Cecilia needed was a story about someone who was in a similar position as her. While it wasn't one for one - she was betrayed by a businesspersion, not an evil side of the inventor inspired by a paranoid writer's crippling fear - it was still the same in nature.
And sure enough, Cecilia perked up. "Oh! Can I meet him? I've never actually met another inventor outside of the North Pole. Okay, I've actually never left the North Pole before…"
"I'm afraid his spirit has already left the Earth…" you start. Cecilia slumps back down in disappointment, before you finish. "Oh, he didn't pass on. He literally left the Earth to track down a message from Mars he had heard in life."
Cecilia looks disbelieving at you "Ghosts can just do that?"
"Usually, no. But he managed to."
For a moment, Cecilia doesn't say anything. She looks at the schematics for the Joulupukki for a second, before rolling it up. "He sounds pretty awesome. Let's hear about him!"