by Will Stanton » Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:33 pm
"Well, unless you're going to ban me from the labs, there's very little I can do to prevent hundreds of pounds of clay from entering your workshop. And the last time I tried a more arcane method of connecting with these things, I ended up in Muir going insane, so we'll skip that plan for this particular set of experiments," Will deadpanned.
He picked up the shaft. "It might make sense to analyze this first. I've been pierced by a lot of things in my time, but this is...it was different. There was a set of sensations like..." he trailed off, trying to find words. "There was a sort of, as you would put it, arcane connection. It reacted with me; I was...hesitant to have it removed," he said, dancing around the issue a little bit. "Maybe that's just from the fact that it was attached to one of those sparks, but maybe it's somehow present in the material itself -- or there's some residual connection there.
My ultimate plan is to jab the clay with it to see if I can trigger any of it to wake up, but first, let's try analyzing it molecularly and vibrationally. The thing kept making me talk about gateways and pathways, down at the quantum level. Maybe we can detect some sort of dimensional resonance, and track the thing."