[Happily the other customers seem more excited about some new case that just came out, 'Underground chic' or some nonsense that Lahabrea just tunes right out.

Along with most everything else for that matter. Viren's closeness doesn't seem to trouble him at all, nor does it interrupt his focus on what he's doing. It is indeed delicate work, and more than once electric welding is required, and there's that smell of blood again when some tiny crystals are switched out for other tiny crystals--

Time passes. He is as efficient as his hands and size allow him to be. There is a test or two, now and again, for seeing if color is actually working.]

Myr is interested in photographing his garden, in color, for others.

[It's obvious, by the time the Ascian speaks up again, tone distracted, that he's finally wrapping up his work.]

For obvious reasons he will need assistance in this. He may not ask for help.