“I was shown some other peoples’ work on the problem but I did not end up using most of it."

"Do you expect you could do the same for headbands, or rings - I know, there's not the same previously-unsolved problems there -" Yet. "- I'm just asking if you have a special talent for weapons or for long metal tubes or if you're equally skilled at other magic items."

“I have no training in other magic items.”

"Do you think if you had that training you'd be able to enchant a headband as easily as a rifle?"

"I think so, ma'am."

"And likewise for rings?"

"I think so, ma'am."

"Well, then. I'd like to sponsor you getting that training at Morgethai's university here, and then I'd like to work with you to build a factory that can spit out twenty enchanted headbands a day. To start, as a proof of concept. How much is Cansellarion paying you?"

"Four hundred Absalom pounds a week, in spellsilver."

"Oh I can double that, though I suspect you'll mostly decide based on who has the more interesting project and not on who has the larger pile of spellsilver on offer… those are both me, though."

"...your project sounds very very interesting, ma'am. I would want to think through the implications of doing that work here in Almas instead of at home."

"You want Cheliax to be richer? Or Andoran to be poorer?"

"I don't want Andoran to be poorer! But - Andoran's not bothering to hold the Worldwound - and Andoran wasn't just burned to the ground -"

She's slightly offended by that, even though she's sure Sevar has no reason to know better.

"Almas was, actually. Razmir. And about half the guns and most of the ammunition made in the factories you saw today are going to the Worldwound… I'd like to see Cheliax rebuilt as much as the next person, though maybe not quite as much as the next person who lives in one of the more damaged areas. Perhaps I should have included the brickworks in the tour after all, I'd like to set up one of those in Corentyn and in Pezzack and I imagine Westcrown will want one too even though there's less reconstruction happening there."

"That would be - very useful, ma'am. I'm glad you're sending weapons to the Worldwound."

"Did Cansellarion tell you anything about me, before you came here?"

"The Lord Marshal said that you might try to hire me and that I was allowed to leave if I wanted to. And I know that you led the engineering project that let the Glorious Reclamation liberate Cheliax."

"I suppose that's enough to get by on… I also led the radio project. And the first airplanes on Golarion. I'm not just interested in making weapons of war."

 "That is a - very impressive range of inventions," she says. "Almas is fortunate to have your patronage."

"I am here because I don't expect Andoran to start any more wars."

"I'd heard the claim, ma'am, that Andoran intends to end the international slave trade."

"Believe it or not, I expect that to be achieved without any wars. More piracy than I'd like, probably, but I think most of what will be actually instrumental there will be economic leverage." 

"I understand, ma'am."

She suspects that means 'I disagree but don't want to say so.'

"Did you have any questions for me?"

"...how do airplanes stay up?"