Posted by Civilian Karilan Massat (Owner, Quill and Parchment Books) in The Quill & Parchment- Second Chances

Posted by Civilian Rafael Torres (Resident) in The Quill & Parchment- Second Chances

Posted by Civilian Karilan Massat (Owner, Quill and Parchment Books) in The Quill & Parchment- Second Chances
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Raf actually grinned and used his index finger to give something of a salute. He found a pair of coveralls and soon was applying the paint stripper with precise motions evenly over the surface. He simply started where his hand had been and went from there. But the focus required felt good. His mind couldn’t drift elsewhere and it was just him and the work. He stood back now and again and surveyed the work before continuing. “How long are you expecting the rebuild to take?” he asked curiously.

~Rafael Torres

Karilan had climbed on top of the ship and was stripping the protective paint off in long, narrow srips that rolled up as he moved. “By myself, with my schedule, I was looking at around three years to get it ready for flight testing and another one or two to make it fully ready. Ive ready put in a year. With your help? Teaching you as we go? I think we can do it in a year and some months. Maybe a little less. Thst work for you?”

Karilan

“Got no other plans,” Torres said, as the paint peeled off cleanly. He had learned with this sort of task that once you found a rhythm with it, that you needed to just stick to it and not think about it too much. Otherwise it just went wrong or got more difficult than it needed to.

“After we strip the paint, what will be next?”

~Rafael Torres

Karilan grunted a bit as they cleared a particularly difficult piece around a mounting bracket. “Well… after we get down… to bare metal… we will do a full integrity scan of every square millimeter of the hull, mark any weak points, check the welds for integrity, and then figure out what needs to be repaired and what needs to be replaced entirely. That should take us a couple of weeks, at least.” They finished the top of the ship and climbed down next to Torres and looked at where he was working. “Not bad. So you see these little bits left behind from your passes? If you oscillate the frequency up and down as you go, you can knock those off without having to go back. May I?” and they held out their hand for the stripper.

Karilan

“Sure,” he said, handing the device over to Karilan as he studied the small remnants. It would have just taken more time, but if Raf didn’t have to spend that time fiddling with those potentially annoying bits, he was happy to know a better way.

~Rafael Torres