"A metal, which among other properties is somewhat inimical to darkspawn. The silverite rune is so named because it has a similar effect."

"Huh. I don't know if we have that metal in my world; I can't think how it would translate. What does the reservoir rune do?"

"It's classified as supportive; it increases the stamina of the wearer, like a reservoir of energy."

"Cool! ...Can runes just keep working forever?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, will a reservoir rune ever stop working, or deteriorate, if it's made right to begin with and isn't physically broken or something?"

"A sufficiently well-crafted one can last a very long time. It is hard to say whether a thing may last forever without waiting for it, but I myself am an enchanted armour of sorts, and I have lasted a thousand years so far."

"That's really cool."

"Why do you ask?" he wonders.

"Except for artifacts, which nobody knows how to make on purpose and also all do bad things in addition to their good things, there's not actually any magic in my world. There are objects that store energy and do stuff with it, but they all run out eventually and the storage part has to be replaced or recharged."

"What do these objects that store energy do with it?"

"Ummmm... I don't really know how batteries actually work. I think they have different metals and maybe an acid in them."

"But for what purpose...?"

"They store electricity, which is tame lightning, and power things that use electricity to move and work. Like lights or ovens or whatever."

"Fascinating."

"I wish I knew more about how they work but I'm afraid I'm very much a layperson about most of my world's technology and bicycles are about it."

"Bicycles are interesting."

"I liked my trike. Wouldn't make sense to have one here, I'd lose more time hauling it up and down stairs."

"Yes. You would be better served by something like the armour I made for Stalas, if that can ever be made to function for someone less..." Caridin trails off, unable to come up with an adjective.

"Lyriumy."

"Yes, that."

"I'm afraid I don't understand well enough how the lyriumyness helps to guess how to work around it."

"I have not thought of any solutions worth trying, but I may yet."

"That'd be cool. If it does address clumsiness, which I didn't realize it might."

"I don't know that it would, but it's possible. Moving as a golem is... easier. More straightforward. Golems are not clumsy."