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...Is there anyone around tht can woknows how to work glass or something? Say, to make a pair of lenses for glasses?

[The man basically has his nose to the screen right now and he still can't see what he's typed. Oh well, hope it's legible!]

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I'm always happy to help, Rick.

[And he seems to mean it too. Lorelei liked helping people! Maybe it was because he could heal just as well as he could destroy. Carefully he reaches to take the glasses from the blond man and balance the one-lens pair in his hands.]

Is this the same amount of .. uhm, focus? In each lens, or is it a little different? Do you need more than one pair? I can make more if needed.

[Rick readily relinquishes the glasses when prompted, since that gives him another hand to collect the pieces of the missing lens with. It's not in too many parts--but seeing as the ideal situation is to be in one part, the problem is evident here.]

Y-Yeah. I think--uh, s-same f-f-focus. [They might be slightly different but he can't remember; it's been more than a couple years since his last change of prescription, so he hasn't had to check.] --C-Could you r-really? I m-mean-- [He chuckles softly with embarrassment.] --at the r-rate I'm g-going through them, I-I p-p-probably should h-have a-a-another set.

[Lorelei will take the missing lens bits too given the chance, just to be certain he has it right. He can't repair what's broken, but making new ones? Well. That's pretty damn easy.]

It won't be any problem at all. Having the pieces just means I'm making a more accurate second pair. Or third, or fourth, or whatever is needed.

[That stammer's still there, which might be why the Seventh Fonon is going out of his way to keep his tone as pleasantly reassuring as he can. He liked people, and if that's nervousness, well, he'll try to help. ..He would anyway.

The glasses - what remains of them - are turned over in his hands thoughtfully. A low but not unpleasant humming follows, and a peculiar warm golden radiance; in one hand he holds the broken remnants of Rick's old glasses, and in the other, a second pair rapidly constructs themselves seemingly out of nothingness and that gold light. After a few moments, there's a perfectly ordinary pair of glasses.

They're offered.]

Here you go. Let me get the other set.

[Lorelei is very good at creating duplicates of things, when he wants to.]

[Rick blinks and narrows his eyes critically at the offered pair of glasses. He's not sure what they are at first--all he saw was a flash of something, then a fuzzy thing that could have been his glasses but--no, they couldn't, his glasses were still in Lorelei's other hand, he knew that much.]

[Curiously he accepts them. His eyes widen with surprise as he holds them to his face to confirm, twisting them around in many angles but clearly not internalizing any information that might bring him, before finally slipping them onto his nose. The world comes into sharp focus.]

[A childlike grin tugs at the corners of his mouth as he looks, amazed, between Lorelei and the broken glasses still in his hand.] --H-H-How--?

[Lorelei looks terribly pleased at the reaction it gets. Nothing's quite as good as surprise and happiness mixed in! He waits to make sure they're actually working the way they should before anything else, and as there's no complaints it seems he's gotten it right.]

It's just a thing I can do.

[That's ... quite an understatement. He sets to creating the second pair. There's that golden light again, busily constructing the second duplicate.]

I can control a certain particle called the 'seventh fonon'. Through it I can do things like this, if I want to. It's kind of handy sometimes. My isofons could too if they practiced but I don't think they have been.

[As the radiance fades, the second whole pair is presented with a cheerful smile.]

But now that I know what they should be like, if you need other ones I can make them no problem.

[Rick watches the creation of his second pair of glasses very intently, now that he can actually see what's going on, and is possibly even more astounded than he was the first time around. Talk of fonons and isofons goes completely over his head, which doesn't concern him too much--Rick wasn't expecting to get a simple explanation anyways, even though he'd asked. The silly grin remains plastered on his face.]

--Th--That's--r-really neat! [He accepts the second pair and once again inspects them closely, though this mostly consists of swapping them with his current pair and playing with the hinges.] I--well--a-alright then! Thank you! I-I c-can't do a-anything...n-nearly this f-f-fantastic, but--if you n-need me for s-something, I'd be...more than h-happy to r-r-return the f-favor.

[Lorelei has left out the detailed explanations. It would be terribly indepth otherwise. Limiting it to 'this thing does that thing' seemed about the simplest he could make it, and as Rick seems content with that, it seems to have worked!]

I find it pretty useful! And you're more than welcome, it's nice to make something instead of just destroy it sometimes.

[His new role in the Tower: making glasses. This is okay by him.]

Well, if anything comes up then, I'll be sure to ask! I'm happy with just having a friend, in a place like this, really.

[Lorelei is happy to name anyone nice to him as a friend. Who needs more than that?!]

Oh while I'm here, did you need anything else?

[Rick's smile very briefly falters. Destroy them...? Was that supposed to be some kind of joke? He assumes it is and chuckles appropriately. Yes, Lorelei, what a fine jest! You are very silly. Also we're friends now, apparently, how could that possibly be bad? Rick is just very happy about everything right now.]

Ah--w-well I--d-d-didn't h-have anything in m-mind--d-don't want to k-keep you f-from a-a-anything i-important.

[There's absolutely no clarification, and it seems Lorelei's forgotten he'd said it at all. He's too cheerful for destruction, surely!]

I don't really have anything important to do beyond exploring! Did you know there's a floor not far from here filled with slides, ladders, and hungry snakes??

[Guess where he was headed before he spotted that call.]

Well, I'm off then. If you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask!

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