Light!

Caridin chuckles delightedly.

Light! Walta grins - for about two seconds until she sees the diode start smoking and hastily turns the whole assembly off again. "Wow, that must be at least a kilowatt."

"What is a kilowatt?"

"Measure of electrical power. One thousand watts. Power is voltage times current. So, hm, think of voltage like..." She never had any formal training in this stuff, but you pick up a surprising amount when you spend all day on related topics.

Caridin seems to follow the explanation reasonably well. He is fascinated by these concepts. Who'd have thought lightning could be this useful?

Oh, they haven't gotten into really useful stuff yet. If she destroys some more electrical supplies to calibrate what the rune is giving... And have Caridin make a steel block to wind her wire around for a crude DC transformer and motor... Her armature could maybe run entirely on lightning runes.

That seems like it would be much more convenient than burning a kind of fuel which may or may not exist! Caridin happily sets to runecrafting.

"The fuel definitely exists. It's just that runes are a significantly more compact and independent power source than engines."

Yes, definitely. It's very exciting.

Stalas is delighted to see Caridin so engaged with a project.

Walta does get sort of quiet after a while. Her first day in a new world is either really bad or pretty good, depending on how you look at it.