Savil frowns at the patch. "Well, hopefully you won't need it. I'd better check if your talisman's ready, and...at that point you're probably good to go?" 

"Great, thank you!"

Savil ushers him out of the meeting room. 

"One second -" her face shifts into a Mindspeaking expression, "- oh, good, Sandra's done with the talisman - want to go grab it from her?" 

"Yes but if you could give me a second I'd like to replace this outfit outright."

"Yes, of course." 

Savil isn't sure how much undressing this will require. She politely turns her back. 

It requires all of the undressing but the re-dressing part is fast. He clips his computer onto his new pants and says, "Ready!"

Savil considers asking what he intends to do with the discarded clothes, but mostly she wants to be done with this so she can get back to her very neglected Web-maintenance work. 

She leads Cam over to Sandra's workshop. 

He carries the clothes tucked under his arm and makes an inquisitive tossing motion at the next fireplace they pass.

"- Er, normally we'd fix up clothes or at least use the cloth for something else, but...I guess with you here, cloth isn't expensive to make?" 

"It is not! But if you want them you can have them, is there a rag basket?"

"I'll take them and drop them off later." Savil holds out her arm for the balled-up clothes. "Sandra's workshop is just down this way." 

They duck outside and follow a short path between two areas of rosebushes and reach a smaller detached shed-like building with a couple of different doors.

Sandra is sitting at her work desk, staring at some crystals laid out in front of her, but she twitches to alertness when Savil clears her throat. "- Oh, right. You're Cam?" 

"That's me, nice to meet you."

"You wanted this?" She holds up another crystal talisman on a leather cord. "Power should last a couple days, any mage can re-power it for you. ...Oh, and you can make the quartz focus part, right? Would it be hard to make me another fifty, the Guard wants more made." 

"It would not be hard - this is for anti-Thoughtsensing in particular?"

"Thoughtsensing, also mage-attacks - like the one you already have - and physical mage-armour against swords and things." 

"I am actually going on a fact finding mission to determine how much I'm comfortable helping with war stuff."

"Guess that makes sense. Are you fine with make some that're just for Thoughtsensing talismans, then?" 

"Yeah, I don't think anybody oughta be getting mindread. Are those different in some way?"

"Honestly the tolerances we can get working with quartz are pretty wide, so not in practice - possibly a different size or shape would be ideal if we could reliably make them for that, but I haven't done the research for it since, well." Shrug. "If you make me twenty like yours, that'll do fine." 

He will extend them this benefit of the doubt. Twenty like that.

"Thank you! Wow. That's - incredible. I guess you don't have any idea what it looks like to our mage-sight... It's beautiful." 

"I haven't the foggiest! Is that something you can - cast on other people to let them see -"

"Er, not that I know how to do, sorry. Mindspeakers can use concert-rapport to share Othersenses with each other?" 

"Nearly impossible to avoid a bit of incidental mindreading, though, even if we could pull it off with you not being a Mindspeaker. Sorry."