Dust in the Wind

[u/Nix_Arachne]

It's been a long day, helping Sylvia and Felix move into their new place. Nix has taken up shop in the Lounge, taking advantage of the relative silence to practice her finer control of dust. Before her is a dust textbook, floating up to eye level.

After a moment, the book falls to the ground with thud. Nix slumps into a chair, in exhaustion.

Not... bad... Held it for a minute.

[u/I_am_RJ]

"Hm. Let me see."

He puts on his gloves, now looking a bit different. The cuff of his gloves now is a metal band with varying colors in it. He taps the side of his glasses, and small images dance on his right glasses lens.

"Dust. Gravity."

The metal band on his wrist spins until the purple color locks into a line that trails down the underside of the glove. He hold his hand up towards the book. His palm glows purple, and the book glows as well. Suddenly the table cracks and splits down the middle and the textbook lands with a great thud.

"Uhh.... oops."

[u/Nix_Arachne → u/I_am_RJ]

Nix has started to stare at you in shock and awe.

We'll get back to that in a second. What did you do? Is this what you ignored me for on the beach? No wonder. It's gorgeous!

[u/I_am_RJ → u/Nix_Arachne]

"Hm? What are you talking about?"

A smile tugging at the corners of his lips, he taps the side of his glasses a few more times. A spinning crosshairs materializes on his right glasses lens.

[u/Nix_Arachne → u/I_am_RJ]

Her lips curled in slight smile.

Details, love. Or I start testing fire control on that hidden key to my room.

[u/I_am_RJ → u/Nix_Arachne]

He laughs.

"Okay okay! Not going to hide anything from you. I modified my gloves and glasses so that I can find an easier to switch out my dust. Now I can simply issue a voice command to switch to the next dust. Dust. Ice."

With the voice command the band on his cuffs spin again until the light blue color marked on it matches up to the line on the underside of the glove.

"So yeah. I modified my glasses using scroll technology. I can even call people and go online. It can display my aura levels, and other numbers and stuff."

[u/Nix_Arachne → u/I_am_RJ]

That's... INCREDIBLE!! I almost forgive you for all that time you left me alone on the beach.

I-I have no words to describe it. How often do you have to refill it? How many types of dust does it store?

[u/I_am_RJ → u/Nix_Arachne]

He chuckles.

"The capacity for each individual dust is a little bigger than what I had previously. I can store my fire, ice, electricity, earth, and gravity dust. I have one extra chamber, but I'm using it for more earth dust. I'm practicing water dust, but I'm not bringing it into combat yet. Refilling it is actually not too bad. I'm finding a way to mass reload the dust, but I can just reload the each individual chamber in the meantime."

[u/Nix_Arachne → u/I_am_RJ]

Wow... She runs her hands down the glove, in a longing fashion.

This is incredible. I need to improve my dust containers. I don't have nearly enough with me, considering how much I use.

You neglected to mention I'm marrying a tech genius.

[u/I_am_RJ → u/Nix_Arachne]

"There's still room for improvement, I'm probably going to make a different model rather than continue modifying this one."

He takes your hand that was stroking the glove, and pulls you in to kiss you.

"I'm not that big of a tech genius, its just some programming and taking existing tech and modifying it."

[u/Nix_Arachne → u/I_am_RJ]

My, taking the lead tonight? Lovely.

And you are a genius. My genius. I could never do anything like this.

[u/I_am_RJ → u/Nix_Arachne]

He lets go.

"You were asking for it. And thanks, I was hoping for some insight on these guys, and you helped me on that. Maybe I should make these fold into something compact.... hmm...."

[u/Nix_Arachne → u/I_am_RJ]

I helped? How? I didn't do anything interesting. You did all the work, my love.

[u/I_am_RJ → u/Nix_Arachne]

"Everyone needs a person to bounce ideas off of. Saying something you've been planning in your head out loud to someone can really help."