...What's the magic shaped like, this is a good chance to watch...

It is shaped very like itself! And very unlike Kaede's, idiosyncratically so. He is feeding mana into the little statue and the mana is taking... a shape... that's hard to describe inside it. Very organised and neat, though.

She looks around the store so her thoughtful frown can be hopefully disguised.

...Will that other shape also let her magic things, is the question. This is no time to test it.

Who knows. The man works away with his magic.

Whisper, "Focused, isn't he?"

Whisper, "Has to be, can't interrupt enchanting or it gets ducked up."

"Mm." There's interesting stuff to look at and standing and waiting she's used to, too.

There is! But eventually the man's done and the magic clicks or snaps or whatever metaphor and the little statue comes alive. He looks up at them, smiling, and then beams when he notices Vasil. "Oooh! You came!"

Gren will let Kaede do the talking. She makes a vague motion to indicate that.

"Yeah, we did. Vasil—our golem—is, yeah, I think in need of repairs."

He nods. "Of course, of course, I'd love to fix all damage, it will be gorgeous when I'm done with it, I have just the design in mind—" And he runs to the back of the workshop to look for something. He comes back with a few exceedingly pretty drawings of ways Vasil could look like. "I doodled those because I couldn't get my mind off what it could look like, it's so exquisite—"

"...Vasil has a lot of information functions. I think something that makes you think of a librarian would be good."

"Ooh, I have just the thing—" He has just the thing. "What do you think?"

"Hmm... how much?" asks Kaede.

He names a price.

"Okay... we'll think about it and get back to you on it?"

He nods many times very enthusiastically. "Yes, yes, of course!"

"That seemed to go well. And not how I expected it to."

"How'd you expect it to go?"

"I didn't. Have many expectations, that is. Maybe thought he'd quiz us about Vasil and we wouldn't have good answers."

"I'm good at talking on my feet, I'm pretty sure I'd have been able to come up with answers."

"And-" glance around "-As callous as it sounds and I hope it doesn't come to this, I can probably blast our way out of trouble if we have to."

"Yeah. Anyway, I just wanted this time to think so I could ask—Vasil, which design do you prefer?"

"—this unit's other operator's suggestion was acceptable."

"Yeah, I thought you'd like it. Good to know I was right."

"Well then, that wasn't an absurd amount, I'm happy to pay that to renovate you."

"I'm getting pretty eager to track down a smith or some other craftsman. Try to work out some of what I remember about steam engines. I just remembered that they're apparently really good for running water pumps."

"Oooh. Yeah we'll find a smith here easily enough. We can drop Vasil off at that guy and go looking for one? ...and possibly breakfast, before that?"

"Sounds like a plan."

"We'll get this design," she tells the enchanter when they get back in there.

"Oh, excellent, excellent! I promise you won't regret it."

She smiles and leaves Vasil there.