Ah! Conrad will observe very carefully so that he can try replicating them later. He can view previous memories and interpose them on his current sensory stream – it's very useful for copying!

What tasks does Saffron have Conrad do?

Oh, this and that. Moving things into and between boxes of various temperatures, bringing her tools and various chunks of glass from various locations in the workshop that she'll send images of, that sort of thing.

He can totally do that! He likes lifting heavy objects. And it's actually preferable to do it himself here, since parts of the workshop are hot enough to deform or even melt metal. He works quickly and precisely, and he doesn't dawdle or get distracted.

Maybe Saffron will regret it when Alphazon attacks, but right now she's feeling very pleased with her choices.

That reminds her of an issue, actually. «Conrad, you should stop having Alphazon's logo on your neck.»

Conrad is still rather slow on replying with Sending, but he's getting better. He's gotten down to ten seconds.

:What do you mean, Lady Saffron?:

She'll Send him an image of himself as viewed from behind.

Oh wow. He hadn't noticed that before. He will touch it. It's not raised or depressed.

He doesn't know how to get rid of the pigment, but he can cover it up.

He will breathe out metal and make a very thin sheet of tiny articulated hexagonal plates, which he will place on top of the sign and attach onto himself with equally tiny metal screws. It doesn't hurt him – instead, the metal bonds to his body.

«Much better. You're not theirs. We'll look into more elegant fixes later.»

:Yes, Lady Saffron. Some way to remove the pigment would be very good.:

And he will continue carrying this and that and bringing her this or that tool!

«Oh, if it's not a magical tattoo it should be trivial. If it is magical, well, we'll look into it. It's not magical enough to try to emboss the metal or shine through it somehow, at least, which is a good sign.»

:That's very good.:

Is there any particular style or technique that Saffron is using with her Firecalling? He'll definitely try to record those in as much detail as possible to replicate later.

Well, she can heat the furnace at the same time as she does other tasks. She can do very concentrated heat for detail work, and so on, there's lots of interesting stuff that people like Saffron who understand glassblowing would find useful to do with pyromancy.

Mm, he feels like he could replicate those techniques with only some practice, and that he's gated more on not knowing about glass and having intuitions about what to do to shape it or make it acquire certain properties rather than the specific Firecalling techniques, many of which could probably be replicated by tools.

If he communicates this, Saffron can focus her rambling more on glass and less on Firecalling.

Sadly he will not communicate it, because he had already updated downwards on Saffron's receptiveness to questions.

And eventually Saffron will have Conrad help her with putting white-hot blocks of 'thermal mass' in various compartments of insulated boxes and making sure everything is in the right box, and lead him out.

"Excellent work so far. I'll show you to your room and Cumin will be available to meet you there shortly after."

He will put the thermal mass into the boxes. It is nice and very warm to the touch.

"Yes, Lady Saffron." Room!! Room room room!! He is Very Excited to have a Room With Things In It.

The room has many things in it! There's an ornate metal ceiling, and a soft carpet depicting a fig tree, and wood paneling with various slightly different shades and grains of wood being used to depict the manor, and upper portions of walls which are, by comparison to the rest of the room, strikingly plain, aside from some framed pictures: the Earth rising as viewed from the near-Earth side of the Moon, a close view of a single orchid with a colorful spider on it, a coral reef.

The room is somewhat dominated by a bed large enough for Conrad to lie down on it without having to lie diagonally, whose style doesn't quite match the rest of the room. Aside from that, there's a chair matching the one Conrad had at dinner, and a desk with drawers.

A starry sky can be seen through the windows, illuminating the room a bit more than it really should. The rest of it is lit by yellow witchflame. The window is openable, screenless, lockable, and large enough that Conrad could go through it, though it's off the floor such that even with it open he couldn't go through by accident.

It is So Good. His room has so much stuff in it!! He has never had this much stuff in his room before!! And wood and cloth, which are very rare materials. Well, to him anyway.

He will spend the next hour exploring the room and opening drawers and cabinets and looking at things and poking at them and trying to look underneath them and things of that nature. Do any of the drawers or cabinets contain things?

In what way does the bed not match the style of the room?

Is there anything in his room that contains or involves water? He thinks he wants to add Water Stuff to his room even if it's not big enough for him to submerge in, like the shiny scales woman talked about earlier. Although submerging would be very fun. He has never been submerged in water before!

The drawers and cabinets mostly don't have things in them. There are a notepad and a pencil in the top desk drawer, and some towels in the wardrobe.

The bedframe looks much simpler than the rest of the room.

There is not anything in his room which involves water, but Cumin did mention baths, which he probably has access to now.

He doesn't know why there are sheets of heavy cloth in the wardrobe! Is he supposed to wear them?

Ah. He thinks they had it brought in quickly so that it can fit him. He can probably find some gold or brass later to accentuate the bedframe so that it's aesthetically matching.

Baths! Does his room have its own baths or are they elsewhere.

His room does not have its own baths. Cumin was talking about him maybe taking a bath before dinner, maybe she knows where the baths are?

Maybe. He will ask her.

:Do you know where the baths are?: he'll send to Cumin.