Come, lay with me, if you do not fear what hides in the dark
“Quite the defenses. If only we could expand it to more territories.” Harper may be a gentle man, but he is far too well versed in the realities of war; and as a modern century product of his environment, well...it’s admittedly difficult to see past the robotic nature of the Ascended and trust that they are people.
“Is there a way to temporarily disrupt their powers? Where I’m from, we had emitters, technology to help scramble wavelengths and block transmissions.” Not that he can word it much better than that - magic had been just as unfortunately present in his world as this one, though usually only in the hands of evil, and he’d been too busy countering it to bother learning that sort of thing. “Though I’m not sure how helpful that will be for me; I doubt they’ll approve of me jailing Ascended outright. So perhaps it can be planted at the dock, making it painful - but not fatal - for them to come near? Then I could place it without their knowledge.” Ah, the problems of Sunjata’s entire existence. Harper doesn’t doubt it’s harder for Safrin, who has chosen him and is still rebuffed in favor of the man’s dedication to his husband.
“Is there a way to temporarily disrupt their powers? Where I’m from, we had emitters, technology to help scramble wavelengths and block transmissions.” Not that he can word it much better than that - magic had been just as unfortunately present in his world as this one, though usually only in the hands of evil, and he’d been too busy countering it to bother learning that sort of thing. “Though I’m not sure how helpful that will be for me; I doubt they’ll approve of me jailing Ascended outright. So perhaps it can be planted at the dock, making it painful - but not fatal - for them to come near? Then I could place it without their knowledge.” Ah, the problems of Sunjata’s entire existence. Harper doesn’t doubt it’s harder for Safrin, who has chosen him and is still rebuffed in favor of the man’s dedication to his husband.
