The first stop of the night was at the workshop, so Marchand could do a sonic scan of the device. This didn’t take terribly long, and Perry finally had an answer to what was happening internal to it, something that he’d only seen the edges of. There was the electrical aspect to it, which pulled from a person’s body and wasn’t actually electricity at all, and there was a lens, which pointed upward in a way that Perry thought must be pretty unsafe. But below the lens and hooked into the electrical equipment was a coiled piece of yarn, wrapped tight around a small bar of gold.“What the fuck?” asked Perry.“I believe it to be magic, sir,” said Marchand.“What color is that yarn?” asked Perry. “Is this potentially from the scarf?”“It’s an acoustic scan, sir,” said Marchand. “You do understand that sounds don’t have colors, sir?”“Yeah,” said Perry. “If that’s the active ingredient, so to speak, then we can just steal it, ruin any possibility that Grayspear can do this again.”“Is that your goal, sir?” asked Marchand. “It seems to me that your goal is to reverse the process, and the only path to doing that is through Grayspear.”“Right,” said Perry. “But … fine.”“We can smash this infernal device to pieces once we’ve finished with her,” said Marchand. “Once we’ve reverted the Yuuksen, then we can destroy the entirety of her research, and kill her in such a way that she can never be recovered.”Perry nodded. “Cold blooded, but yeah.”“I could argue for her essential humanity if you’d like, sir,” (...)