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The door behind Jim clanged loudly as it shut, sealing him in the hot damp tunnel. He took a brief glance at the automated map and made it disappear as he found Forest's mark. The humid warm air made him start to sweat as he walked to the two crystal machines near the wall. He heard the clanging of gems getting put into their slots and the tinkling of shattered crystals falling to the floor.

"Hey there Jim, did you bring me the cereal?" Forest said as his voice echoed, without looking up from his work.

"Yeah i got it, how did you know i was eating a bowl anyways?" Jim replied as he thought of the bag floating next to Forest. He set himself up behind him and started to take the covering off the other machine. Their job was fairly simple, take out the bad parts, put in the new ones. The hard part was that it was tedious and slow, and if you made a mistake you could fry the whole system and yourself.

"Pfft, that was easy. Seeing as you greeted me this morning with your wife's pillow i figured you did something to make her mad at you. Thanks by the way." His voice was muffled as his head was inside the machine. Without even looking small chunks of the cereal were floating up into the machine to his mouth.

"Damn his perception." Jim muttered. He looked at the old machine in front of him.

It was a sorry sight. It would need a couple of new Gm Cooling v3, A ton of Red Cys mark v4's, and what looks to be a new Photon Light Distributor. Jim looked behind him to find a saddle bag full of gems and crystals of all sizes. With his levitation he shifted through the labeled crystals to find what he needed. As he shifted around he found a random crystal that did not belong in there.

"Crys EMR Mark v9? Hey Forest what the hell is this?" Jim asked as he found another crystal just like it. Forest stopped his steady flow of cereal and shuffled his head out of the machine. Taking the crystals out of Jim's hold he lifted them into the meager light above them to get a better look. His face was curious, then a brief shock, and finally a wide smile.

"Finally! hey man check this out." Forest got to work inserting the crystal into his Spad while floating the other to Jim again. "This is so cool. Ok lets see ... uhh ... EMR stands for Electro Magnetic Radiation, which is a really fancy talk of portable torches!" Forest rambled while Jim noticed Forest's Specs flashing various colors. Soon Jim was nearly blinded by the light that came from Forest chest where the crystal was being held from.

"Pretty neat huh?" Forest asked grinning like a fool.

"It would be if you got it out of my eye." Jim muttered and after Forest moved he could see again. Once his vision was semi normal he began inserting the crystal into his Spad. "Well at least we got something out of this. Could always use a good torch for the dark." Jim's vision started to flash colors.

New Node Detected

Calibrating...

Reading Files...

Located Files

Running Spell...

Test Firing Crys EMR Mark v9...

Test Successful

Finalizing Setup...

Complete

Jim looked around with his new set of light, testing the beam on the ceiling. He could focus the light into a really tight beam to see very far but it would limit what was lit, while on the other hoof he could set it wide and light everything but it had a short distance. He was still playing around with it, getting a feel for his new thoughts when he heard Forest sneeze.

"Bless you." Jim said.

"Bless you." Forest said.

They looked at each other.