It took some time to answer his questions about the harness and how to take it off
\ and what to do if you can't. Shackle and irons all use the same key -- you
\ put it in and turn it and the item unlocks. No key? Well, it's steel, cut it
\ with a tool if you have one. Conceptually simple, no need to wrap your head
\ around anything new. The harness is different.

The plastic is thick and strong, but it's also springy, not solid nor brittle.
\ You won't be able to cut it with a knife or a saw I don't think. Sure, anything
\ will melt given enough temperature, but so would I. Dissolve the plastic? Maybe
\ possible, but no idea where to start looking for the solvent.

Of course there is a way to get it off easily, you just need to dissolve the glue
\ between the collar flaps, but all I know is I had a bottle back home, I have
\ no idea what chemical compound it held, never had an inclination to learn more.

"I don't even see any seams, your collar really looks like a single thing to me."

Well then, Liz must had become really good at it, taking care to provide a pleasant
\ picture for the streams. Another possible explanation: after forty years
\ two halves did indeed become one, just slowly melting together into one another.
\ There was a word... but I don't remember it. Adhesion? No. Aberration?
\ Definitely no. Ablation? Whatever.

"I will not leave you here, we'll go together."

...

"Sorry, I should step back a bit. As I've said, I don't have tools here, we'll need
\ to find something suitable somewhere, we'll have to go out. So we'll go together,
\ and that means we have a ladder problem once again. Judging by your face
\ you already anticipate being lifted."

All the way, baby!

"But going up will be longer than going down, I'm not sure it's safe. How much time
\ did you spend hanging previously? I mean, do you remember, back home? I mean,
\ up in the air, legs off the ground, no support at all."

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"No air obstruction? No circulation problems? No trouble afterwards?"

I D O N T H A N G B Y N E C K T H E H A R N E S S S U P P O R T S W E I G H T

"Yes, but the neck is involved too. Plan B would be lifting you upside down,
\ by your legs, but it could also be dangerous with all the extra blood
\ to your head. There are still other options, but none look easy or safer or painless."

...

"15 minutes may not be enough. I say we test this first, you'll probably like it anyway."

I'm wet already. However we don't do it just to make me feel good, right?
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