Chapter 39: Cleaning and Expansion (2)
"Umm... Jack?" asked Madison.
"What?" Jack said, only half paying attention.
"While you're at it, can you maybe templatize a super computer or two for me?"
"What about electricity? Those things are power hungry."
"Don't you have to solve that problem, anyway? Your lab equipment will require electricity as well. Didn't you say you can make a room with bright sunlight? Just set up a large solar array in one of those rooms."
"Good idea," he said. "Since it's your idea, you can be in charge of our soul space electric power generation. Let me know when you've identified the items we need to templatize."
"Um... okay," she said, then her physical self grabbed her laptop and began typing in search queries.
About an hour later, Madison asked him to create several rooms, so he created a new hallway leading off the white room, and added three new rooms. One was the size of a football field, one was the size of his high school gym, and one was the size of a large office. She had him put environmental controls on each. Then she had him create tubes between the three rooms using the cylindrical hallway template to act as conduits for power cables so they didn't have to worry about tripping over cables in the hallway.
After that, she would periodically interrupt him to have him templatize something, or instantiate something in a specific location. Some of the stuff she had him instantiate was too big for either of them to move, even if they worked together.
Eventually, she interrupted him by saying, "Okay, I'm ready!"
"Huh, what?" he asked, still focused on reading an article about gas chromatograph instruments.