"No, no blowtorches!" Andrei yelps, flinching back a few more inches. "Especially not if there's a fuel leak in there! But moving the metal, yes, that might work. Can you seal it together without heating it?"
He leans forward, finding the generator's rusty key, and turns it until the engine inside sputters into silence. Darkness falls like a guillotine. He blinks useless eyes before finding the tickle of currents around him, springing into not-quite-visual clarity without the distraction of sight.
With perfect accuracy, he leans forward and tugs the power cable free of its plug on the generator, tucking the metal leads against his sweaty palm as he sits back again. He leaves his eyes closed as he focuses.
Alternating current is less of a drain than direct, but so much more complicated to generate. After a moment, the faint redness through his eyelids lets him know that the lights are on again, although they flicker and dim unpredictably. Without something else to draw from, the power he can send through them is barely enough to keep LEDs alight.
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He leans forward, finding the generator's rusty key, and turns it until the engine inside sputters into silence. Darkness falls like a guillotine. He blinks useless eyes before finding the tickle of currents around him, springing into not-quite-visual clarity without the distraction of sight.
With perfect accuracy, he leans forward and tugs the power cable free of its plug on the generator, tucking the metal leads against his sweaty palm as he sits back again. He leaves his eyes closed as he focuses.
Alternating current is less of a drain than direct, but so much more complicated to generate. After a moment, the faint redness through his eyelids lets him know that the lights are on again, although they flicker and dim unpredictably. Without something else to draw from, the power he can send through them is barely enough to keep LEDs alight.
"How is that?" he murmurs.