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February 17 - February 25, 2025
“I just hope the cold exchangers do as well,” Steve said. The soul gem construct that weaved through this massive structure both underground and above it grew faster and faster, strengthening its ties to the different parts of the citadel and connecting to more and more of the supports. The more supports they attached themselves to, the faster power was pulled into the citadel as it wasn’t lost in transferring it through the supports’ runes. The metal supports were good with the runes but the soul gem construct was many times more powerful. Because they gathered power faster, they were also a
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It could never work — even with magic it could never work. "Cold" is simply the absence of "heat," otherwise known as "thermal energy;" so there is no form of energy to be harvested from a cold object or atmosphere.
“Like that, it can all be gone and you have no control over it. Now I’ve known that for a long time, but having someone else deciding when I’m done and pressing a button—that’s something that I couldn’t just sit back and accept. I didn’t know what I was going to do but everything I would do was going to be aimed toward once again putting my life back into my own hands.”
So why am I doing this? It’s not for some noble reason. It’s because I care for my daughter and the people around me. For them, I am willing to do horrible things so that they might live a good life,” Dave said with fire in his eyes as he drank from his beer.

