Chapter 284: Getting With The Program
The month following the disappearance of Ghostheart was a chaotic one for Norneau.
Things were a bit awkward in class, but Kir got a good, attack-free week out of Daisy and Bailey’s being awarded recognition by the city - as well as part of the bounty for the mimic, which came out to three small golds a person after factoring for the Watch and Guard.
What made things awkward, however, was Keiya being completely unwilling to look Kir in the eyes after the "Lamb Incident."
On the bright side, Lumin generously enabled everyone to afford the upcoming field trip to Amrita. If the implications of Bailey’s utterances were to be believed, she’d practically mandated it for him.
Naturally, Kir picked Kordia as one of the special students who would supervise the others. His second selection was the catkin student who’d helped out during the garden incident, whose name was Xunter.
With everything laid out in advance, Kir knew he just had to keep his head down and hope that nothing went wrong before the trip...
That lasted all of three weeks.
Kordia had taken a particular shine to Kir’s idea for keeping Ghostheart in people’s minds after his "departure." But for that project to be economical, he devised a simple programmable spell for copy-pasting her drawings from the originals to a blank sheet.
The device he imagined was a plate that would take the drawings from one side and create a burn effect on its opposite, allowing new sheets to be placed atop it for a moment to have copies seared in. Timing had to be precise, but using a roller, one could simply roll to new sections of paper and stamp again and again...
But then he had to find a means to get plant paper into large rolls, which was not, at present, a high-demand form for it. The solution Kiryu came up with was to just use a conveyor belt for the standard broadsheets, but it lacked elegance...
"Come off it. You’re reinventing comic books, not the goddamn Bhagavad Gita." Kiryu griped as these thoughts followed Kir out of Enumasam’s shop, where he’d delivered an order for the conveyor belt rollers and picked up the first set of copper plates.