The door opened; Noah was dragged into the hot workshop by Nina who was humming with a smirk, her tails flapping about, hitting Noah in the face repeatedly. Rusty put down his tools, placing the miniature sun into a heavily plated door to the side of the burning furnace, an intense heat radiating from it

“Geez!” Nina complained. “If I hadn’t put a barrier around Noah he would have been incinerated! He would literally turn into gas as the atoms that make him up are forced apart!” Rusty just shrugged as he took off the thick goggles that were resting on his head. “Pah! When I was his age, I was already swimming in molten steel! Don’t be a baby.” Rusty replied, walking towards Noah, who was mentally frozen upon the realisation he was almost incinerated. “It’s not even fun, I don’t know why your world treats it like a relaxing spa treatment,” Rebuked Nina.

These guys are even weirder than what I expected, and I expected a lot of weird…

Even Gaia was flabbergasted at this slapstick exchange.

Rusty was only half the size of Noah, yet he radiated an intense aura. His sharp, dark red eyes pierced deep into Noah’s soul. There was a sense of age and wisdom from the look Rusty gave Noah, as if he could see something Noah himself couldn’t. A small smirk appeared on Rusty’s face before he turned and walked back to his workstation, removing a thick metal plate from underneath it.

After kneeling down and opening it, he retrieved a small, glowing yellow gem with white streaks running through it. This time he used a pair of long tweezers rather than his bare hands. The energy radiating from the gem seemed to distort the air as Rusty moved it, placing it into the furnace he was previously working with. The white streaks coming alive and radiating small amounts of white lightning that crackled along its surface as the gem was heated up seemingly coming alive.