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That was really kind of the boy, and he did seem insistent. Looking back at the pocket watches he picked one where he could see the gears working inside the watch.

"Thank you," Eron smiled and felt he couldn't express how grateful he was, "These are all quite wonderful."

Eron thought about it for a bit.

"Some chemicals or chemicals mixed with electricity could help etch designs into metal and glass. So the designs can become more elaborate. Metal plating is also a chemical process, that's where you take one mental and plate it with another metal that might have qualities that the metal underneath does not."

Both required chemicals and to an extent electricity, he wasn't sure how comfortable he was with the idea. Those chemicals could be very caustic at times.

"If you use charcoal for your forge, you probably already know that's a hard material to get a hold of, but they do burn the hottest fires. It's possible to learn how to make it, but it's a very time consuming process..."

And the amount of wood it used, however in the old days (and still now) there were nomads who traveled from forest to forest making charcoal. This prevented the forests from being decimated from having too much made.

"Otherwise, for these items, there's not much that could be improved by a chemical process."

Eron looked thoughtful, "If you manage to get your own forge, it might be better to buy more material, as long as you're making a profit, you can slowly increase the amount of material you buy, and lead to being able to buy other things such as traveling supplies."

Assuming of course the boy wanted to make a business out of it, it was always hard to tell what was a hobby and what was for a living with some youth.

Eron nodded at this, though he wondered what Andarien meant by, asking Miyuki how the home was coming. He continued to eat though, now that Andarien was putting everything away he did remember how hungry he was. He also remembered how good it was to have a hot meal.

Once he was done, he thought about having a bath, but decided to just sleep instead, and so headed for the tent that Andarien pointed out to him.

Eron had woken up before Shoneah (since he went to bed before her), and so took that bath he hadn't taken the night before. Once he was cleaned and in borrowed clothes, he began to meditate.

It was something he tried to do when they had time, which was very rarely. For Eron, it was hard to practice skills left to flounder for decades when they were always on the move. He had to take himself back through all the steps he was taught as a child.

He was so occupied with trying to find his grounding that he didn't even notice Miyuki taking a seat beside him and starting her own meditation. Since he never did study magic sensing, it also didn't bother him because he simply never noticed.

Miyuki however, noticed him, she noticed how his magic was reaching into the earth, but also noticed how it was sporadic at best. Like he was tripping mentally every once in a while. She had thought, when she joined him that he was a veteran at this like her teacher, apparently not.

Meanwhile Ai was also trying to meditate, leaving Yasu to watch his little sister, which was completely not working. Suki liked to try and crawl over people while they meditate often earning a n** from Ai.

Miyuki frowned, after the nth 'trip' she reached out her hand to Eron and touched his arm. Eron jumped slightly not expecting the touch, he opened his eyes to see Miyuki still sitting cross legged, her eyes still closed but her arm out touching his arm with her finger tips.

"You're not syncing with your breathing," she told him, "Take a deep breath and let your magic roll out with your breath."

"You mean spread my sense out with my breathing?" Eron asked, not sure what Miyuki was asking.

Miyuki cracked an eye open to look at him, "Your magic, you use magic to sense the ground, it's spread out around you but every time you're out of sync, your magic trips and your concentration breaks. Just breath, let your magic be a sense that spreads out, don't think about it so much."

Now that last bit sounded familiar to Eron, like an old teacher from his childhood. In fact she reminded him so much of that old teacher it didn't quite occur to him that she could probably pass for a high school senior or college freshman.

After a few more tries, Miyuki stopped Eron again. It was better, but she could still feel him tripping once in a while.

"Let's stop, you're going to give yourself a headache if you keep that up," Miyuki told him.

Eron chuckled a bit and rubbed the back of his head, "I'm afraid I haven't done this since I was young..."

He never had to, despite the fact he still used magic, he did so for personal reason, and as a profession he never felt the need to. Now that Eron was no longer meditating, he noticed Shoneah there.

"Morning, did you sleep well?" he asked her.