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"I got it!" Merinn takes the bag. "Okay then . . ."

"Yeah but . . . I've never met you." Alun comes in and sits down anyway.

"Well, do you know which direction we need to go in?"

Cool! I've never had that kind before!

"He's just doing his best . . ."

Merinn followed them.

"How do you know my name?" He sounds less concerned and more impressed.

*grabs popcorn*

Welcome to the Shard!! It's always great to meet another artist here! Do you have a favorite kind of bagel?

I do have a little experience in robotics as well, though not with anything advanced. The idea was to use the awakening Commands as the code and serve as the decision making for the fabrial. The fabrial part of the device would parallel your wiring and breadboard/motherboard. Say you wanted to make a simple automated switch. The fabrial would include the mechanism of the switch, using stormlight gemstones that move when activated. The awakening Commands would allow the machine to 'decide' when the switch is open/ closed. If I Command the fabrial to switch when someone walks past it, then the investiture will recognize the person walking past and cause the fabrial to activate. The fabiral would then complete it's purpose (ex. turning on a light, opening a door). The Commands would simply give the mechanism another level of autonomy. Like with this example, it switches itself, instead of someone having to walk over and switch it on manually. This example is pretty simple but I feel like smart people could find a way to apply it to more complicated mechanisms. As for awakening the fabrial, I don't see any reason why you couldn't. Navani has described many of her devices to made of wood, which is a natural material that works with awakening. The real question is, could you awaken gems that come from gemhearts? Because the gemheart is formed inside a creature would it be considered a natural material? As stated above though, an advanced fabrial that is already being pumped full of stormlight could become awakened on it's own. I do think that using awakening first instead might allow for more planning and finetuning on the engineers end of things.

Chiyo wanders back in the direction of the village.

Welcome to the Shard! You can make your own thread to introduce yourself if you want.

"Gosh dangit." "I didn't even get to eat it."

"Nah it'll be fine."

Chiyo sighs and puts her knife away. "I don't think it's solid enough to cook." Then she stepped in.

As in level of wealth, yeah. Thanks for the info!

"It will, it will,"

"Nah, they're all good in different ways, even the poisonous ones . . . I think we should try sauteing it." She pulls out her knife and attacks to cut some off, or something.

"And mushrooms are yummy!"

lol okay, the meme brainrot is real

I had actually never heard that take on his character before and I think that's so cool! It really fits him, and if that's how it comes out in the books I wouldn't feel disappointed in any way. As a reader I definitely don't think his character arch requires romance, nor does healing from his troubles require romance. I just think that it would be interesting way to see him become more trusting of others and more emotionally open. This could be done with a platonic relationship too though, so yeah, he definitely doesn't need a romance. That being said, I am a Kaleshwi shipper, and would love to see them together. It probably won't happen though

"It tastes like mushrooms!"

"Kinda."

Chiyo licks it again. "Sure is big though . . . won't fit in my cooking pot."