Connie blushes at her own obliviousness when Nyx hands her the runic driver back. For whatever reason, bursts of inspiration were correlated with equal amounts of absentmindedness, it had to be due to the assignment of brainpower or some other kind of psychological principle that Connie didn't have the expertise to identify.
"T-Thanks. I really should be paying more- hold on," she says, holding up a finger as the gauntlet begins hissing violently. She cracks open the maintenance panel, taps one of the runic circles in the energy wiring, and adjusts a few of its parameters in the glowing projection that pops up. The hissing sound stops, and she closes the panel. "Sorry. Anyways, most of it comes from the asterisk, but I did do some good ol' fashioned research beforehand. Never hurts to have some backup knowledge."
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"T-Thanks. I really should be paying more- hold on," she says, holding up a finger as the gauntlet begins hissing violently. She cracks open the maintenance panel, taps one of the runic circles in the energy wiring, and adjusts a few of its parameters in the glowing projection that pops up. The hissing sound stops, and she closes the panel. "Sorry. Anyways, most of it comes from the asterisk, but I did do some good ol' fashioned research beforehand. Never hurts to have some backup knowledge."