Quoted By:
“He is rather large, yes.” You muse, measuring out a few more arcs and making a line with your quill.
Korash-22 shoots you a strange look that you don't quite parse.
“Despite that, he's a strangely comforting person. I feel more assured in my work, knowing that he is looking out for me.” You continue. “...even if that work is... ah... keeping a big plate safe.”
Korash-22's expression had changed further, one eyebrow going up. You still weren't quite sure what he was trying to convey to you. At your final words, he scoffed lightly. “Nonsense. Tis a <span class="mu-i">holy relic</span>. It's best kept in the guard of someone who... pardon my candor, but someone who does not have anything more important to do. The time of a priest should not be wasted on such trivialities, that's what we have apprentices for.”
“No offense is taken.” You reply. “Do you think of me as an apprentice, then?”
“No, you're someone who seems to be tripping her way into becoming an initiate. Even better, in our example.”
You smile a little. “So what <span class="mu-i">is</span> your interest in Corvus Lictor, if not spiritual? Properly entombing and consecrating the machine would not serve a practical purpose, would it?”
“You forget that I am a <span class="mu-i">historian</span>, girl.” Korash-22 smoothed out the map. “Merely studying the site of such a machine would be my honor, though I would be remiss to imply that Corvus Lictor serves no purpose. From your description, it is remarkably intact, the strength of the STC evident yet again. It may yet be restored to full functionality. Or at the very least, made part of other machines, such that it's legacy is carried on.”
“Ah, so still a practical feat.”
“I honor the gods in my own way.” Korash-22 rolled his eyes. “Machine God and Emperor all. Beyond what soothes the mind of a lector, I think to advance our position not just through faith, but the steel it preaches about. Nothing more. Restoration is equal to discovery and manufacture when it comes to honoring the machine. You would do well to remember that, if you continue to stumble.”
“Does Odrev have the industrial capacity for such a feat?” You glance up, pausing in your measuring.
“Don't be silly.” Korash-22 shook his head. “It would need to be transported off world, or somehow made better use of here.”
“Better use of?”
“There is many a titan that has ended it's life honored as a holy power generator.” Korash-22 waved his hand. “There are many uses for a particularly powerful and oversized plasma generatorium.”
You frown, slightly. “It seems like such a shame for a machine like that...”
“Even titans must cease their labors sometimes.”
“Mmm.” You move the compass a few more positions, making a line with the edge of a bone and dragging the quill along it. “Done.”
Korash-22 leaned in curiously, then frowned. “This is your entire route?"
