CHAPTER 10
What Penrys needed most, she thought, was a colleague—someone to bounce ideas off of. She laid her book down on the table in her room and rubbed her eyes, ignoring the growl of her stomach that confirmed the fading light—time to break for another solitary dinner.
She thought she had a grasp on what might have interested Gialfinnur. If you heated the right metals in the right alloys to the right temperatures, all of which was no easy thing to control, you got metals with certain crystalline structures. So far, so good. More than one lattice structure was attainable.
But if you started layering these structures in certain way, the result was much more complicated than a power-stone, and power-stones only came in one crystalline format. These metals were an entirely different cl
