Amar soothed the incessant chatter of Spark's, her mini drake. She couldn't blame him for being antsy. The whole city of Rhydin twitched with magic. Magic. She shivered at the thought. Such a hidden force that was hard to trust but with her and her crew stranded here for a few years, they all came to grudging respect for the dark arts. One such evidence was Amar on her way to meet with another female canid about studying the crystal technology that Moresh held as advance science and a rival to magic.

She paused before the shop door of the Alchemist's Fire. "Well, Sparks, time to go see this crazy lady about helping her with stabilizing her technology doodads." She pushed inside and her tail bristled as the feel of magic pulsed around her. "Hello?"

Amar?s ears perked up hearing Ammy and she looked up at her. ?Yer kind of tall for a Sumese, ain?cha??

Ammy just laughed lightly and smiled. ?Perhaps it is because I am not, uhm, Sumese you say? I am a Lupinossai.?

?Oh! Like that Marilla lass that?s been so kind to me and mah crew.? Amar face palmed. ?Sorry. I?m usually sharper than a diamond tip chisel but yer shop has mah bones rattlin? a bit. Captain Amar Su, formerly of the Sumese Air Navy. Could we blather in a different location?? She asked.

Ammy gave a nod. ?Sure thing. Give me a second.? She left Amar in the front display room to go speak with her staff about some ongoing projects and new stocks to shelve.

Amar decided that if she stood still one more moment her main spring was going to snap from the creepy store. Movement, she needed movement and curiosity; both the shop filled amply. The Eastern Sumese was now moving about poking her nose close to anything that didn?t tingle or smell like magic or give that weird cult feeling. The small library section had her fascinated with a lot of the advanced mechanical books, science theories, blueprint folders and eve a few display cases with tools and precision instruments. She was getting a little confused just exactly what this store really sold. Looked like a mishmash of everything. Strong spirits even!

Soon she saw Ammy approach and wave her to follow out the door. Amar walked quickly out of the odd shop and followed the Lupinossai down the street to the fountain area. Ammy had picked a nice caf? with outdoor seating, in the cold and snow no less yet it was near Yellow Crystal warming stand. Amar was surprised that one of her inventions made onto a street of Rhydin city.

Ammy ordered some warm drinks, a few sandwiches and took a number sign to the table while the order was being made. She saw Amar looking at the warming stand with confusion.

?Anything beneficially created or used in Den City, we try to share with Rhydin City and any other areas wanting our offers. It builds a better community relationship. We don?t want Den City to appear to be snobbish or unwilling to help improve things in realms around it.? She said.

Amar took a seat finally and enjoyed the warmth from the Yellow Crystal. ?Good teh know that people are benefitin? from my tinkerin?. I do what I can but I?m afraid I can?t do much more for the people of this realm. Just about out of crystals that we could salvage from our ship the Sky Dragon before she sunk under the deep lake of the Glenn.?

Ammy leaned forward very interested now. ?You have more of these crystals? Would you happen to have enough for me to look at??

Amar nodded slowly and reached into her jacket. Soon a leather pouch was sat on the table and she carefully pulled out shards of crystal and laid them on the table for Ammy to see. The crystals ranged in colors: Yellow, White, Green, Blue, Violet, Orange, Black and a Clear almost fogged glass color. Ammy looked over the various crystals and she could feel the unique energy signatures each one possessed.

?They feel like a battery for energy. It?s interesting.?

?Aye, our world magic nae exists but crystals seem to do what you mages do. They each emit on certain frequencies of energy. Crystals are not easy to harvest but when we do have them they can do many things, regenerate a hurt body, make things float, power things, warm and light areas, alter minds, absorb energy and even store images if done right.? Amar explained softly.

Soon their food and drinks were delivered and Ammy was still feeling the crystals.

Ammy chewed on the end of her pencil as she studied the crystalline lattice of the various crystal shards Amar had given to her. Adjusting the magnification on her Electron Beam microscope, she jotted more information down and tapped a recorder and began to speak.

"Ammy Spiritor, researcher and primary designer for Crystal Labs. I am researching Crystal Technology given to me by my business partner, Amar Su. Here are the initial findings.

So far each crystal shard exhibits the usual aligned matrices to allow a crystalline lattice to form. However, it appears the atomic structure of each lattice has electron shells heavily saturated with electrons in an unusually stable configuration held in place by a new particle. This particle acts like an electron. Furthermore the particle's nucleus has neutrons replaced with what I can only describe as mutated neutrons saturated and dense with a primary element of creation: Earth, Fire, Water, Wind.

This new particles, which I will take to calling the Manatie Particle, or Mana/Magic Particle, seems to radiate energy in their given elemental configurations when outside electrons from a different source are collided into their full vallence shells causing the crystal to shed Manatie Particles in a ratio of 10 Manatie Particles for ever 1 electron that collides with it. Furthermore the electrons do not dislodge or lower the Manatie Particles they collide with. The Manatie Particles seem to resonate and split to shed particles to equalize the energy introduced to them.

Upon measurement studies, each crystal piece does faintly radiate energy in its configured element but only enough to exude a weak manifestation. Milky White crystal will only levitate about one inch from any solid surface. Blue crystal gives off a certain tingle when touched or held, like a very mild static shock. Yellow crystal has a mild warmth when touched or held. Green crystal seems to have no apparent effect until an injury or illness occurs in which is slightly reduces discomfort and healing is accelerated a minute amount. Violet crystal seems to exude a slight psionic field either causing a slight hallucenogenic effect or acute mental clarity. Orange crystal seems to realign the crystalline structures within other materials making them far superior and more durable on in a small radius of the touching shard. The Black crystal and Clear crystal are the harder to study. The Black crystal just absorbs all attempted probes with anything that isn't a physical probe and it would seem that the crystal absorbs light even. Clear crystal I'll study once... I figure out where it vanished too when I gave it a small amount of current.

It would seem Amar's realm has truly managed to overcome the finit seperation of technology and magic but using these crystals that merges the two at the atomic level. Once I get the vallance shells and nucleus patterning mapped out, I will attempt to replicate a small sample of each crystal. It is possible I believe to replicate them though I may have to take a page from my mentor, Arthour at the Bristol Crios Academy and I may have to use concentrated Elemental condensation to innoculate the crystals with their needed elements. End Log."

Ammy stood and left her lab for now for a good long break to think.

It had been a few weeks since Amar and Ammy had spoken. Amar had been off helping Marilla set up the air field for Den City's first small private airport and air force. Meanwhile, Ammy had shifted her initial idea for what she was calling Project Icharus from making Den City to float, to designing a whole new city that was meant to float in the air.

She had also been working on designing and drafting up several types of hover transit systems that would work with Rhy'Din's more diverse and rough terrain. The availability of Crystal Technology had opened a new world of opportunities for her and she was already hammering out rough drafts for a Crystal Generator to power all of Den City and be more stable than the Fusion Core she had buried under the Whisper Paws Hospital.

For now, Ammy sat at her lab under the Alchemist's Fire and had just finished rolling up the plans for the new, floating city. She sent them to Amar to be looked over, graded, corrected and sent back for updating.