A telling silence follows as Donnie goes through the same procedures as with the other charge. He's about half-way done when he finally speaks up again.

"...it wasn't really forced at first. I...didn't really know anything about the Empire. The noble who took me in treated me like a servant, but aside from light maintenance around his property all he did was ask me things I figured were theoretical. How I might design something for this sort of application, or he'd pose problems for machinery that I can only now assume had been actual equipment they'd had trouble with until he asked my input."

Donnie makes a final check of things, then starts down the ladder again. Next.