"Like a catenary," Rhiow agreed. "You see, Gating on my world works like this."
Rhiow reached out to the nearest set of hyperstrings and pulled. A diagram of graceful Speech-characters began to spread out across the ground between her and Celena. It looked like a tree, with several branches stretching away from the central trunk. On the end of each branch was a circular diagram. "These are the gates," she said, pointing out the circles on the end of the branches. "They gain power from the catenary in the center - they're always connected to that. When we open a destination-" here she hooked her claws into a thick braid of gold and pulled it off the trunk. Its ends were anchored to two of the gate-structures in the tree, and as she pulled the strand unraveled from the rest of the tree until it stretched taught between the gates. "-we pull a connection from the catenary to bridge the gap. Do you think something similar might work with your device?"
(OOC: Delay? I'm slower than molasses these days. Sorry!)
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Rhiow reached out to the nearest set of hyperstrings and pulled. A diagram of graceful Speech-characters began to spread out across the ground between her and Celena. It looked like a tree, with several branches stretching away from the central trunk. On the end of each branch was a circular diagram. "These are the gates," she said, pointing out the circles on the end of the branches. "They gain power from the catenary in the center - they're always connected to that. When we open a destination-" here she hooked her claws into a thick braid of gold and pulled it off the trunk. Its ends were anchored to two of the gate-structures in the tree, and as she pulled the strand unraveled from the rest of the tree until it stretched taught between the gates. "-we pull a connection from the catenary to bridge the gap. Do you think something similar might work with your device?"
(OOC: Delay? I'm slower than molasses these days. Sorry!)