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Ekita was bored, so had been out on a salvage run- looking for things that seemed like they could be fixed. She and Renkah had come back from Axant a few days ago, her loose ends had been tied up. Not so much to think or wonder about left her far more idle than she cared to be. She needed something to keep herself busy. And so here she was, on her way back from picking useful things out of the ruins. She brought her motorcycle to a stop at the sound of a voice, something she would not have noticed normally but the odd contrast against the relative quiet out here made it stand out.

Other side of that building, I think.

So she set off again slowly, heading around the building. It seemed she had not been hearing things, there was someone there. Someone having a rather hard time with a generator from the looks of it. "Problems?"

His assessment seemed to be correct from what she could tell from here. She figured it was probably an older generator too, it looked like the old tech she studied for the sake of history back home. "Yeah, looks like you would have to replace so much you might as well build a whole new one." Entirely new would work better than half patched in this case anyway. It would just take time to get the right metals and mold or weld it into the correct shapes.

"Plan B?" Admittedly she was curious.

Shen was surprisingly quiet for the moment, trying to deduce just who this was. It was a god, yes, that much was obvious enough, but he was not sure which one.

"I spent most of my life around machines, so I spent a lot of time taking this apart to see how they work and putting them back together. Most of the actual work I've done is dealing with electrical equipment, but given time I could probably figure out some of the others." She gave the motorcycle a fond pat. "I even managed to get this thing running, took some doing though." The fuel had been the biggest issue hurdle there and had required some dealing with a chemist.

It wasn't anything like her bike back on Axant, but it still wasn't bad. The other would not have been able to run here before long anyway, like everything else on her homeworld it was purely electric. "Thank you." She had to grit her teeth afterward to keep her dragon's growling from becoming audible. This Isambard had not meant anything by what he said, but Shen was a very possessive creature to put it lightly.

Very possessive indeed."Shen Lung, Shogun of Storms..." Yes, a dragon king. "...and this is Ekita." He noted the other's name and domain for later.

It was probably a good thing Isambard did not voice that thought aloud, because Shen held a very different opinion on the matter and he was never one to hold back about things that concerned his brothers or himself. "Likewise." He was perfectly capable of being cordial, however, and would continue to do so unless he was given a reason to be otherwise.

"It seems strange to me too. But sometimes when it is all you have, then it is better than nothing at all." Had she come here from Axant any other way then she might have scoffed at the notion like Industry did, at least in the beginning. Things were a little different now however, she had gotten used to this place.

"Sun, perhaps, since its patterns are a bit more predictable." At least for now. She got the impression it would be raining for quite a while once Shen was strong enough to make it do so because that was the kind of b*****d he was. The two of them still did not always see eye to eye on things, but at least in this case she could understand the want to do something like that. "Though, I am not sure how you would go about it?" Most of her experience had been dealing with giant lightning rods.

"If you want we can look around for any other salvageable machinery while we talk?" Perhaps, if they were lucky, there would be another generator that was in better shape.

"I actually enjoy reading, though I only do so occasionally for learning purposes." Reading was much more effective as a temper diffuser the less one had to think about what they were reading. "If I want to learn about something usually I just take it a apart and put it back together." Which unfortunately was not an option in this case.

"I have a few favorite spots, plus some that I haven't really had much of a look around yet." She slid up on the seat of her bike. "Climb on behind me and perhaps we'll get lucky and find something worth using."