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Breaking things, helping fix rivers, building lakes, or using lava as a means of redistributing fresh soil for agriculture and holding water to soil of drought-ridden locations to help with vegetation.

[She pauses for a moment, thinking back to when she'd first seen the basic elemtental runes used in reconstruction.]

First job I ever did with the Inkmetal Forge was fixing up a town after major flooding. The amount of earth displaced that we needed to move was hell, but runes like this made it a lot easier.

It's all machines where I'm from, but you always hear about everything breaking apart anyway. [ Even with them. He wonders how things would be different with runes like this, but all things considered, he doubts life is all that much better where Saeri is from. He doesn't have that optimism to believe.

Still: ] But I like it, magic like this. Doing fire or ice out of your hands is cool, [ sure, a small shrug, ] but magic that can help? Bending it into a tool?

[ Yeah, it's more than pretty cool. He glances about the room, but settles on Saeri. ]

You miss it?

[ He thinks he would, compare to here. ]

I miss working with everyone and knowing we're making a difference. [She misses everyone, too, but that's not what he asked.]

We used machines, too. AIMs. Huge piloted armors we use for construction and emergency response. But you know...powered by rune magic. Back in the day they used to use things like excavators and bulldozers but you have so much more control with an AIM.

Okay, yeah, armoured construction piloting? That's something out of a cartoon where I'm from. [ But it's said with a laugh, something surprised. ]

So when are you gonna make one of those to hire out? I dunno, even magical bulldozers might catch this place up a few hundred years. It could do with an emergency construction crew every time something goes crazy.

[ He's grinning, half-joking, but really, Robby wonders if she couldn't be doing bigger and better. She's got the ambition for it. ]

Didn't really have time to watch cartoons, but that's not surprising. A lot of stuff I'm used to people think are from books and other fictional media.

[She's not offended at all. She's found a bunch of things people told her pretty crazy, too.]

Unfortunately, to power a full sized AIM suit, I'd need a lot more power than what I can scrounge up right now. My stones and crystals aren't strong enough and if I used straight blood I'd have to like...bathe the thing in it.

[ Hey, it's probably very sci-fi. Unfortunately, Robby's never been big on the sci-fi angle for comparison. ]

Well, if you wanted to go in the business, I still think you'd have work for it. Someone was telling me about how this place got flooded before - you know about that? That's why some people started that Outpost building out in the woods.

It's apparently a place just for Sleepers if anything happens to the city.

[ Which he sure has his own feelings about, but you know. ]

[Oh boy, does she ever remember that month.]

The flooding was the Worst. Do you know how hard it is to make an oversized carriage stationary when there's enough water to carry it out to see? Had to finally trap the wheels in concrete and that was a bitch to chisel out.

[The WORST.]

I know about the Outpost I helped a bit with some barriers on it. A lot of people were involved though so I barely had to do anything.

[ That gets something close to a snort from Robby, though it's not all humour. There's a wrinkle to his forehead as he even tries to imagine it. Concreting the wheels? ]

Got any precautions if that happens again?

Yeah, I figured that out. Built a magical anchor and maybe carved some runes into a few safe spots around the big Machine. If something happens, I'm set.

[Not like she's taking the Carriage House into any of the other districts. Too much trouble.]

Now back to your lessons... [She says it with a playful snooty tone.] Any other questions about these runes? Does everything make sense so far?

[ He makes a sound between a cough and a snort. ] Sure- put two elements together, make an effect.

So- [ give him a moment... ] Put fire and water together, get steam? And if you want it scalding levels, go for something like this.

[ Tapping at the modified fire on the lava rune. ]

[She nods in approval.] And remember that in basic mixing of runes, especially for elementals, you can have various results depending on which rune you give the priority position.

You want lava? The focus is on the rock, not the fire. You want earthquakes? Same thing. You want steam? Priority is the water for the vapors. Remember which element should be the focus of the inscription and which ones should be the support runes and you'll have less crazy outcomes.

[ Huh. Now he has to think about that for a second. ]

Lightning first before rock, and you get rocks flying everywhere?

[ Does Robby kinda want to see that? He kinda wants to see that. ]

No. You get magnets.

[Which is cool, or at least she thinks it is.]

You want flying rocks, you gotta throw some air into that.

[ ...okay, magnets can be cool.

But now this is leading him down a silly thought: ] And if I threw in some heat and cold, would that give me a tornado?

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Heat and cold will get you a fog, but focus on the wind and you'll be trying to keep your feet on the ground. Wouldn't recommend without the right equipment.

[She had made that mistake as a child. Thankfully she'd been outside while doing it.]

Okay, but that doesn't sound like the worst mistake to make. [ A mess? Yes. A potential fun mess? Yes, by the tone of Robby's voice.

He's looking at the runes for the elements, wondering. ]

So if I wanted to make an incense burner--like a tube to put the sticks in that'll hold and burn them, that wouldn't need a big flame. [ Not even a flame. ] Would I use the symbol and write it with a weakened ink, and that'd be enough? It'd need air vents for letting out the smoke, but I was thinking you could make a twisting top that closes them when you want it shut off.

Would the ink be safe in something like that?

[ Since it's written with magic? Or would it suffer under the heat and trapped space? ]

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