Author: Sociable Hermit
Category: Reincarnation
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"So, how’s it look?" Corco asked his apprentice as he wiped the sweat off his brow.
"...I’m not sure." Addressed by his big brother, Brym put down the leather tube in his hand. Only after some hesitation did he answer the question.
"What do you mean you’re not sure. Can you see or not?" With a frown, the crown prince stood up from his work station and walked over to his ward. All the while, he cleaned his hands with the same rag he had used for his brow before.
"...it looks... a bit crooked?" Careful, determined not to disappoint Corco, the short merchant boy tried to hide the tube away from him by taking it behind his back.
"Let me see." Annoyed, Corco went around and snatched the instrument without much effort. Brym’s training had been going pretty well, but the kid had only been a cultivator for a year and a half now. Plus, he was still a brat, not even fifteen years old. Once the crown prince had seized the telescope, he gave the instrument an inspection of his own.
A look through revealed the other side of the large warehouse, a place they had transformed into their testing area. Through the rays of sunlight from the glass windows and the dancing flecks of sawdust, his view fell onto their other ’inventions’ on the other side of the hall. Sandpaper, rulers, spirit levels... all simple little inventions, most only a means to an end. The telescope was supposed to have been one such end, but the results were disappointing. Although the view was enlarged as desired, the image was completely distorted on the left.
"Aaah, crap. What went wrong?" In the end, he was just as disappointed as Brym had feared. "How much time did we spend getting these lenses polished right? They worked perfectly before we put them inside, didn’t they?" As he stomped up and down the hall, he thought for a bit, before he turned back over to Brym, just to get some confirmation.
"They were. Maybe the lenses moved when we put them in. Something must not be aligned right."