73.2 Musings

I nodded along. It was sounding more and more like Vida was a utopia just on the side of the Empire. If I didn't know any better, I'd probably go up and just take Lise there with me to live a quiet life. And that option wasn't even out of the cards yet.

"I assume that Feuilles use Seigels in Vida as well?"

"Oui," she nodded. "We use Circuits to create complex Systèmes that can do... a lot of things that we need."

Systems, huh... Circuits? Was that what I thought it was? "You mean like this?"

Standing up, I grabbed a piece of charcoal and began sketching the array that Lise and I devised. It was the basic one, but it would suit for this purpose.

"O-oui..." Amelie hesitantly answered. "Monsieur, can I ask where you learned such a craft?"

"I made it with Lise's help," I casually replied. "It was a painful process of trial and error, but we somehow managed to crack just how to do it."