"It's not strictly impact with the thrown ones," Padraig reminded Faith when she mentioned how they might counter his own creation, were they find it to be coming right back at them. "With the pressure triggered ones, yes. But the thrown ones, they're lit before they're tossed. The fuse runs out, it explodes. It's about timing, impact with the target."
On the other hand, he suggested, the thrown ones could be engineered so that they too relied on impact. And not be lit before being thrown. Which would be better, he conceded, was he to come up with something like what she was suggesting. But only marginally better, since in order to do it, the wielder of this portal thing she was describing would have to avoid any sort of jolt that would cause the thing to explode. "Something like magic, yes," he said and smiled. Like alchemy, that was. "A boomerang effect? It's worth considering," he decided.
It seemed like inviting trouble though, and just as Faith pointed out...and Karem in her own way regarding the Immortals, they had a real knack for finding it. Or it finding them. "You've got a good point," he added, referring to Karem's remarks. "I haven't made many friends among the Immortals." There was Aelig, of course, and the stabbing incident atop the tomb of Treid. And then there was the small matter of him having swiped a vial full of Xiur's blood. Hopefully the Immortal didn't know about that. He'd been dead at the time, after all, and hadn't needed it anyway.
The topic revolving around Kura however clearly bothered the Immortal a great deal. It made sense. She was a mother like any other one, worried about her child. "I wasn't aware that Kura was part Sev'ryn," he said. He didn't know much about them as people, except that he'd read something, somewhere, about them and their familiars. "It seems to me, you have an itch that won't stop, you keep scratching it or you identify the cause and then put it to rights."
He was a scientist after all. Presented with a problem, he identified the cause, then the solution, then he solved it. And if Kura had a familiar calling her name, it seemed to him that what would serve her best was to answer, or continue suffering the consequences if she chose not to.
On the other hand, he suggested, the thrown ones could be engineered so that they too relied on impact. And not be lit before being thrown. Which would be better, he conceded, was he to come up with something like what she was suggesting. But only marginally better, since in order to do it, the wielder of this portal thing she was describing would have to avoid any sort of jolt that would cause the thing to explode. "Something like magic, yes," he said and smiled. Like alchemy, that was. "A boomerang effect? It's worth considering," he decided.
It seemed like inviting trouble though, and just as Faith pointed out...and Karem in her own way regarding the Immortals, they had a real knack for finding it. Or it finding them. "You've got a good point," he added, referring to Karem's remarks. "I haven't made many friends among the Immortals." There was Aelig, of course, and the stabbing incident atop the tomb of Treid. And then there was the small matter of him having swiped a vial full of Xiur's blood. Hopefully the Immortal didn't know about that. He'd been dead at the time, after all, and hadn't needed it anyway.
The topic revolving around Kura however clearly bothered the Immortal a great deal. It made sense. She was a mother like any other one, worried about her child. "I wasn't aware that Kura was part Sev'ryn," he said. He didn't know much about them as people, except that he'd read something, somewhere, about them and their familiars. "It seems to me, you have an itch that won't stop, you keep scratching it or you identify the cause and then put it to rights."
He was a scientist after all. Presented with a problem, he identified the cause, then the solution, then he solved it. And if Kura had a familiar calling her name, it seemed to him that what would serve her best was to answer, or continue suffering the consequences if she chose not to.
(Actually, when writing this review, I wasn't actually sure it would even post. Thankfully, it did. ) Thanks for your patience, the both of you. Hopefully, I can get the review out faster next time I mobbomb you.