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WINTER 6018
"Good to be back home!" Skylie sighed as she stretched on the couch in the Damiscendii Capitol House, which was really just a walled-off two story building top a hill overlooking the town of Damiscend. The lower floor was used for council meetings, the upper floor for Iriana, Darshaan, Skylie and Saraia's living quarters, partitions on the rear wall and long a side wall used to wall off beds, where Skylie could hear Saraia clearing feeding Iriana. Kinglet and Queenlet were playing on the floor, Kinglet now easily outsizing a horse and Queenlet about the size of a large dog a Rook laid down at Skylie's couch.
"How was Uekoro, Skylie?" Darshaan asked as he approached where Skylie was.
"Good! Bit late, but still!" Skylie heard arguing just outside of the capitol house, and she got up to investigate the issue.
"I'm telling you, they won't care!" A Damijani elfenne was ranting at an ogre as they were going up to the capitol house. She sighed as Rook strode up behind her.
"Uh, what seems to be the issue?" Skylie yelled from the window, making the pair jump slightly. "We can talk about inside!"
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Skylie puzzled over the four blueprints the two inventors had presented her. She was no engineer, and couldn't make heads or tails of any of the blueprints, beyond they were clearly two alternate versions of the same two invention concepts: A building seemingly capable of manipulating underground steam for electricity, and some small tablet that could replace walkie talkies for communication. Both versions for the two had differing issues, and had ideas in question marks in the other's handwriting about potential invention merging for the inventions.
"...Sorry, I'm from Evangeline, I have absolutely no clue what the hell I'm looking at here," Skylie sighed as she wracked her brain over the inventions a twelfth time. The elfenne, Kaseen, rubbed the back of her head nervously as Karkal, the ogre, furrowed his brow.
"Want us to explain?" Karkal asked, and Skylie nodded eagerly. "The geothermal plants will use underground steam from the vents in the area to generate electricity. We've both figured out how to solve our problems, we just want your approval to test out a test run plant."
"The smartphones could serve as a more reliable, faster version of a walkie talkie, plus give, take and receive videos and images, and more! We haven't figured out the "more", yet, however..." Kaseen explained the tablets. Skylie nodded. "We'd like permission to build a few prototypes to test them out..."
"Well, I don't know, I'd have to ask Saraia or Iriana-" Skylie said before Iriana yelled, "IF YOU SAY YOU DON'T HAVE THE SAME POWER AS US ONE MORE FUCKING TIME I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU WITH THE DIVINE EXECUTIONER!"
"But what if I hafta give out-"
"JUST GO WITH YOUR GUT AND THINK ABOUT WHAT I'D SAY! GODS, I KNOW YOU HAVE AN ISSUE WITH PERMISSION AND WHAT NOT AS YOUR PARENTS MADE YOU ASK FOR SHIT ALL THE TIME BUT JUST DO IT, YOU'RE FINE!"
"...Okay, you're approved for both..." Skylie said, still stunned. Karkal and Kaseen nodded.
"It'll be about 3 months for the plant to get built and 1 month at the least for the smartphones," Kaseen said, and Skylie nodded. The two left, and Skylie looked behind to see Iriana, without any clothes save for a blue thong, glaring at her.
"...Sorry, Iriana..." Skylie said, and Iriana walked up to her and hugged her lightly.
"It's okay, just... Know you're able to, okay?' Iriana sighed as she let Skylie go. "I've been stressed all day because Saraia came back from Zareen because she was invited by Qara to talk, and Qara spent the entire time ripping in her because we took her people, nevermind they left willingly, we weren't even gonna take them if they hadn't tagged along, a house burned down dangerously close to a granary full of food, and people are suspecting a potential Aquarian Alliance attack may happen... Just, sorry for snapping at you..."
"S'okay..."