“Can we not talk about this?” Tern asked. She fished into her robes and dug out a small cluster of multicolored crystals linked through a lattice of silver wire. “Here, I got this for you, because I listen to you and care about things that interest you, and I thought an attunable thaumaturgic capacitor might be something you’d have fun with.” She shoved it ungraciously into his hand.”
