big news for me: we now have several intact copies of the whitehearth manuals – "forged design and manufacture" – and they have what i need to complete my generalized partial harmonization spell!
bigger news for bell: she wrote them
more accurately her former self "aire bellows" was foreman of the research center
she doesn't remember any of that but she recognized her far less dragon-like self in a portrait and her former office has so much paperwork matching her writing
since that she's been lost in thought which is very understandable
we also found the office of the late merrix 1 and some notes that reference "the rokugani forged design" which sounds a lot like relic!
any more information than that will be in his personal labs in "making" which is a city some distance further into the mournland so we'll have to plan yet another excursion
that one is likely to be even less pleasant since making is in the middle of a jagged "glass plateau"
i could go on about this research center itself and exploring the surrounding city within a city but i have more reading to do
...
medya insists that i get some sleep instead
we're resting here tonight and tomorrow we head back down to the hardbacks so we can leave the greyest place in the world
on the way out i can finish reading and start revising my spells
i might be too excited to sleep!