Liryn had done a lot of reading up on apps via both internet and photocopied pieces of books via Arian from the library.

He had browsed Google Play and the Kindle appstore via Arian's laptop and scanned through pages on Google.

None of that had helped him narrow down what sort of app he wanted to make out of the many types out there.

Not that app making was his only project mind - after all he had the ongoing one of improving Arian's and Orah's alarm clocks.

And okay so that particular one wasn't going quite as he'd like, given that the last time he'd tried 'improving' Arian's clock, he had somehow managed to connect up things a little wrong and the clock hands had ended up anti-clockwise rather than clockwise - but he was pretty sure that he'd manage to nail it next time round - he just needed to tweak things a tad more...

Given all his attempts at research and all the 'how to' build an app pages that he painstakingly gone through, it was perhaps ironic that when Liryn finally came to a decision on what sort of app to make, said decision had ended up coming from an unexpected source.

He had been in the park, up on the grassy knoll above the children's playground where he had awoken Naos, going through some of the bits and pieces that he had managed to pick up on his evening wanderings. It wasn't much just a couple of springs, salvaged from a couple of click pens that someone had tossed out, an alarm clock key and few bits of bread that he had managed to scavenge by playing cat and was intending as a quick snack.

He'd been distracted by flashes of light coming from the playground before he could settle down to start eating the bread and had ended up padding over to the edge of the knoll and sticking his head over so that he could get a better look at what was happening down in the playground.

The lack of auras suggested un-powered, but that hadn't stopped him from being curious.

It had turned out to be a couple of males - young - although Liryn figured that they couldn't be that young given that it was edging into evening.

They were both sitting atop the roundabout, that was close to the sandpit and one appeared to be showing off his phone to the other.

Liryn watched them, purplish eyes fascinated as the male with the phone tapped something on the screen that caused a stream of light to come out in a beam before laughingly pointing it out towards the tree almost like a torch.

Like a torch - that was it! That was the app he could make - was going to make.

He slipped bread, springs and alarm clock key into his subspace pocket and then turned to make his way down the knoll.

It was time to head home because he had things to look up - namely things on Google to do with torch apps.

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