That melt into spring [Open]

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouchi stood by the blue-green waters of Faron Spring, eyes tracing the old, intricate patterns that covered the surfaces of the rocks nearby. The weather in this part of the City was a little cooler than usual, but he felt no discomfort; it was still well within his operational tolerances.

As he waited there, almost entirely still, a light rain began to fall from the sky. Artificial rain, of course, for an artificial city, but it was cool against his face and good for the plants. Zouichi closed his eyes for a moment; when he reopened them, the rain was still there... but it was accompanied by something else. Silvery numeric annotations swam through his vision, attached to each drop of water, too fast and too numerous for an untrained observer to make sense of. Speed calculations, trajectory and force projections. Each droplet of rain was a variable, a world of controlled chaos.

Some disappeared into the soft grass; others dropped onto the surface of the spring, sending up a cascade of secondary equations as it cast ripples across the surface of the water.

When it was time for battle, these same quicksilver calculations would help guide him in action: they'd show him the best way to destroy, the swiftest way to kill. But for now, there was no need to bend them to that purpose. Instead, he watched as they fell like phantoms through the sky.

Comments

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"The rain is generated by the ship, not by clouds in the atmosphere. It's simulated weather. The sky is also an artificial one. If you stay here for a while, you'll notice day doesn't always become night when it should."

[bequiet_hescreamed]

"The water is falling from the ceiling?" Clef looked up, although due to the fact that it was currently raining on his face he couldn't really see where said rain was coming from. Yeah, that was kind of silly. "I had assumed that the temperature and humidity were merely artificially manipulated to facilitate precipitation."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi shrugged. Perhaps he should have added "not naturally". The City was only the size of Rhode Island, so he doubted that the precipitation was naturally occurring... but Clef could be right.

"Big fan of weather?"

[bequiet_hescreamed]

Clef gave him a look. Was that a serious question? He couldn't imagine that it was.

"No," he replied. "But if I were designing a city inside of a spaceship, that's how I would have weather work. It would be more efficient, if it were feasible."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

He...wasn't sure how controlling the humidity and air pressure would be more efficient than dumping water on whatever areas of the City needed it. After all, humans invented sprinkler systems way in advance of weather control systems. But whatever, he wasn't going to argue. Seemed like this guy took things a little too seriously already.

"Sounds like they could use you in Infrastructure."

[bequiet_hescreamed]

It really depended on what the purpose of the rain was. If it was for watering the plants, basically anything would be more efficient than having it fall from the ceiling.

"You think so?" Clef hadn't really considered it - he had designed various devices at points in his life, but he had never thought of himself as an engineer. He filed that idea away for later.

"I'm Clef. What's your name?" Since this guy was already making occupational suggestions, he figured they should at least introduce themselves.