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“Back to work!” Harnassus shouts “We’re not payin’ by the hour”
We find Glirastes sighing as he slule flowing branch of a sunblossom tree
“I know it is beneath you,” Harnassus says as Glirastes’s servant pours histhe device to the infantry, Master Maker? It would do theic”
Glirastes surveys the coht with me
“No That sounds tiresome”
He puts his feet on a silk stool and sighs as his servant rees his heels with rose oil Harnassus looks six seconds away fro Glirastes on the ears He has little patience for snobs I’ve more experience with the breed
“It’s just an EMP What’s so co it up?” I say, and wait for the explosion
“Just an EMP?” Glirastes repeats as if reading his own obituary aloud “Aof your curriculuerency?”
“I retained enough, apparently”
The infantry commanders chuckle
Glirastes sighs in annoyance and regards Thraxa and my infantry coes and thick chests of hardierI track what he says, because I’m married to a woman who’d be insulted if I couldn’t
“Weaponized transient electroes, escalating precipitously to their ine a double exponential curve Proble nize this sort of blunt belligerency”—he fixes lare—“and provide countermeasures for Atalantia’s fleet Consequently, I have decided to use a benign da between the source and the victim equipment Usually this is a by-product of a weaponized EMP, but the genius here is that instead of di within the double exponential envelope, the sine avelengths will increase However, considering the distance required, the energy deered energy ignition is profoundly difficult absent a nuclear explosion, and if I do not perfect it you will all die in the sky” He eyes ain “Now that I have satisfied the curiosity of your apes, the zoo is closed” He closes his eyes “Begone lest you have an advanced degree or care to replace Exeter inmy feet”
“I’ll take his spot if you like, Master Maker,” Thraxa says with a smile She holds up her hands “I know they look like elephant feet, but they’re tender to the right sort”
Glirastes makes a face of distaste “Such a bloodline, squandered on enius in your line, woeneration, and your father…” He sighs “You waste your ti soldier”
“So that’s a pass?”