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He was definitely missing something here, he felt. Why would it be an emotional trigger, of all things? What sense did that make? The only thing he could compare it to was his materialization, with how he used a kind of "emotional command" in order to manipulate temperatures.

But this was completely different, wasn't it?

...Wasn't it?

Why in the world would it be the same? Or even just similar?

Hmm.

Maybe there was a common denominator here that he just wasn't quite seeing.

...An emotional command. He'd only been thinking about the 'emotional' part of that term. But what if that wasn't the issue?

Argh.

Before he could finish working through his thoughts, the vehicle arrived at its destination. Hector tried to shove the problem into a background thought process, but he was suddenly feeling a tinge of nervous anticipation. That big tree in that open field over there was looking pretty damn important, right about now.

Truth be told, he hadn't really given it all that much thought before. Garovel and Voreese said they needed skilled integrators for the Fusion Forge. Abbas Saqqas was a skilled integrator. Pretty straightforward reasoning.

But now that it was imminent, Hector's mind was beginning to go in all sorts of directions. Obviously, Abbas considered the news of a Fusion Forge to be incredibly important for it to be worth the trip all the way out here, so what was he going to think when he saw it?

And more importantly, what might he be able to do with it?

Hector didn't want to get his hopes up too much, but at this point, he couldn't help himself. Would Abbas be able to make crazy weapons? Crazy armor? Or some kinda super weird shit?

...Fuck, it was probably gonna be some super weird shit, wasn't it?