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Sameth has covered a table with books from various magical worlds, pieces of parchment with Charter Marks glimmering on them alongside sketches of small devices. His conversation with Jim gave him a lot of ideas and he wants to work quickly.

At the moment, he's focusing on detecting different sorts of magic, the books focus on magical theory and have their own inherent magic, that will allow him to create a device to detect it. Since most of Milliways seems to be created by a mixture of magics, it would make sense that the forcefield is along the same lines. He's testing Marks to see which ones react to the books with an arrowhead he enchanted as a Charter base. Nick would be proud, he's being scientific.

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Jim slides into a chair at the table, and puts his drone down on top of one of the opened books.

'It's ready,' he says without preamble, and starts scanning Sameth's books with his eyes, taking in something new.

'What're you doing?'

He's dressed in jeans and a white shirt today, both of which are very expensive but manage to look scruffy and worn.

"Working on the best and smallest way to detect different types of magic. That book's from a world with a focus on magical objects and spoken word spells, the magic's concentrated enough that it works. Also that kind of magic is a part of other aspects of the Bar. This one's from a world more like mine where the magic imbues everything which means its more alive. It can fight against you or react if it doesn't like your probing or you don't the right blood or something,"

He points out the two books and then leans forward to look at the drone and before lifting it up, asks with a gesture.

'Yeah, go ahead.'

He says it without glancing up, his attention entirely on the new information.

'Did you get these out of the library here?'

"Yes, there's an entire magic section," Sameth picks up the drone and tests the weight and how its put together.

'People keep telling me to go and see it. The library, not the magic section.'

The drone is fairly standard V-Tail design, expensive and made more so by the cameras he's put on three sides. It feels hefty - these are not yet easy to buy in his time, that'll be a few more years, so he's built it along military lines. It's less than a metre long, though; weighty but manageable by one person.

'I can modify it,' he adds, lazily.

'If you need me to. The casing is fibre glass to keep the weight down, but I can change it if you think your magic might need something a bit heavier to work with.'

He'd been all for letting the thing blow up in the forcefield, but if Sameth can keep it safe, then fibre glass will hopefully be fine.

"Its a wonderful library, it can be easy to get lost in. Fiber glass, I've read about that, I can add some of my own magic to provide another layer of protection from breaking. I'd do that to cameras but my magic and technology don't work well together. Its better if what I do is more on the structure and I think in terms of something to detect, I'll keep it simple,"

The drone is set down and he hands Jim a sketch of something that looks like a metal comb.

He takes it, but doesn't look at it yet.

'If you use magic, the cameras won't work?'

No no no no no. Unacceptable.

"Only if I use it directly on them. If I only adjust the structure, it shouldn't cause any problems. I wouldn't offer if I didn't have a way to work that didn't disrupt what you've made."

'All right.'

Cameras are the Thing, Sameth. Even on a drone he is actually going to use to gather atmospheric data. Jim records stuff like other people breath oxygen.

He glances down at the sketch.

'What am I looking at?'

"Front part of the drone, each tooth of the comb will react if it picks up a kind of magic. They'll be strong enough to withstand the atmosphere and combined with the recorded data, I'll be able to figure out which magics comprise the field. I'll be able to have it ready and attached by tomorrow,"

The work itself isn't too difficult as the Charter is sensitive but it will provide a lot of information.

A smile spreads over his face.

'Nice.'

It's the sort of 'nice' that suggests a lot more happiness under the surface.

'I'll leave it with you, and you can put it on whenever you're ready. Drop it for me at the bar, or come find me and you can watch it fly. I've set it up with my computer, so it's good to go on my end.'

He runs his hand absent-mindedly over the thing, tapping his fingers on the casing like he's playing an imaginary piano.

Sameth smiles too, its always wonderful to have someone appreciate his work, "I'll look for you as I want to see how this all works."

'OK.'

He drops his fingers away from the thing, surrendering it. It's not like Sameth can fly it without the control centre anyway. He looks restless as he stands up, but pleased with how it's going.

'i have to go back home for a day or two, but unless the door does something weird I won't be gone long. I won't send it up without you.'

Look at him being considerate of what other people want! He awards himself a gold star.

"As soon as I have it done, I'll send you a note and we can meet up and send it up. I hope what you're working on there goes well,"

Jim is clearly an engineer of some sort and must have multiple projects going on like Sameth does.

Certainly an engineer! of sorts.

And yes, definitely a multi-tasker.

'Great. I'll see you in a few days, then.'

He grins and wanders off in the direction of the door. He doesn't really want to go home, but he has to make time pass there so he might as well go and deal with some projects.

Sameth nods and then starts working again, he wants to make certain of all his research before he makes anything.

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