[quote=Krein]
The group meant to go and help the manned defenses at the borders appeared before Seth once again, informing him that they were ready and prepared with magical potions and items to help themselves along in case they needed to. "Very good," Seth said with a nod, "Be on your way then."The demigods then took off and went to meet with Austin and Angelo. Seth stared after them for a few moments before he uttered a small prayer to Hecate."Keep them safe, mother..."Others, even his own half-siblings may not have been completely aware of this, but Seth cared much for the other children of Hecate. Other than basically being family through the goddess, they had created for Seth and Morning the closest thing they could get to a home. On top of that, Seth knew that many of the demigods here had come from difficult pasts due to their noticeable talents...And scents. His mother was an ancient and powerful goddess, not even a goddess, but a Titan. Monsters were just as attracted to them as they were to the children of the Big Three, and not all of them made it to camp. For that reason, it sickened Seth to no end whenever children of the Big Three would get all the attention and sympathy from other campers, while Hecate's children were just left to receive solace from their own half-siblingsNow coming back to his senses, Seth realized he had probably spent more time at his cabin than he had originally intended to. The others were probably done by now and waiting for him, so he hurried quickly on his way back to the Hephaestus cabin. Only several yards away from it now, Seth couldn't help but notice formations on a window that would otherwise seem incredibly out of place in a cabin permanently heated by the fires of multiple forges. Ice. Ice patterns to be exact. He immediately figured out it was Nevea's doing, obviously because she was the only child of Khione in there, but also because her work had a certain beauty to it that would never fail to appear during the colder parts of the year, or catch his attention. He actually smiled at it, but was left wondering what prompted her to make her icy art in the cabin in the first place."Back," he said simply as he entered the cabin. The sound of clanging metal had stopped now, indicating to Seth that the forgers had already finished their work. He went over and inspected their crafts, attention turning from them to the ice and crystal model that Nevea had slightly altered. Examining it closer, he came to the conclusion that she had modified it slightly to accommodate the mechanisms."Interesting, I'd say things look better than they were before," he said to the room. "Are there still things to be worked out, or are we ready to actually begin setting these up?"
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Nevea stared at the ice patterns she'd made for a few moments, trying to decipher the parts in which her subconscious decided the emotions she couldn't understand should be. Being unable to figure it out, as usual, she dismissed the process from her mind and focused on what was outside of the window. She moved away from the window after a bit more time, and noticed Seth approaching the cabin when not in front of the window. She watched him for a bit as he admired the patterns, and was surprised at his smile, but kept herself from letting out what would have been a slightly audible sharp intake of breath. 

When he stopped looking at it and went to the door, she moved her gaze to the construct, and the ice patterns melted away. She looked to Seth as he came in and nodded to acknowledge his first statement. She considered asking him what he thought about the patterns, but discarded the notion for various reasons. That wasn't the topic at hand, after all. The focus was the constructs. 

"Nothing much at this point," said Nevea, in response to Seth's question. "We just need to make sure it all fits together, and then we can start producing the constructs. So, since it seems that they're just about done making the prototype mechanisms, let's try fitting them in. How are we going to do this?" 

One of the designers spoke up. "We're going to put in the firing mechanism first, through the horizontal shaft, then add the connection through the vertical. We'll then attach the whole thing to the control mechanism. It should all snap together quite well." With that, they filed outside and gave her the firing mechanism. 

At the front of it was a thin, hollow tube which was presumably supposed to be where the ice shard would form. The mechanics behind it were inside of a casing, and at the bottom of the casing there were slits through which the connection between the control and firing modules would fit. When the control mechanism decided it was time to fire, it would push and pull two half-centimetre metal strips that fit inside the slits respectively. These would initiate a magically helped change in air pressure that would fire the shard, and it would be able to fire in rapid succession. 

Nevea slid the firing mechanism into the horizontal shaft, back first, so that the hollow tube was at the front. It fit perfectly. A few of them lifted the construct off of the ice pedestal, making sure to hold the crystal parts and not the ice, so that their grip wouldn't slip. Then another one inserted the two metal strips into the slits, and then they placed the construct onto the control mechanism. They made sure it fit well, and then the camper who had put in the strips turned a knob on the control mechanism. The strips of metal fell fully through the slits in the rotation module, whereas they had been only partly through. 

The camper turned the knob back and the strips locked into place, and the ice and crystal construct was now fully integrated with the Hephestan creation. "Lovely," Nevea said. "I suppose I'll start up the forming of ice shards." She directed her hand toward the construct, and applied an attribute to it such that it would form ice shards in the hollow tube when there were none there. Those shards would subsequently hover inside the tube, waiting to be fired, and then new ones would be formed. "Shall we test the targeting, then?"