ENGINEERS CREATE THAT WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN

[[Skipping Cass due to time; She is welcome to post just after]]


Ulrik's lips curled briefly when Mauja mentioned seeing the pegasus once before, and he grunted slightly. "Sounds like a nightmare," he commented, glaring back at the blue skyrat. Then, his attention focused entirely on the cave entrance, and he furrowed his brows. Cassiopeia still had the bindings on her legs, so he was confident that she was not going anywhere, especially with Psyche and Mauja standing to close. So, he wandered closer, finding that the cave was appropriately lined with rock. Excellent.

The wry smile and gentle offer for payment and the subtlety was completely lost on the intelligent brute. He was already diving into the sea of madness, consumed by his one goal of created a gate. "No need," he replied absently, glancing at the two of them before stalking off, stride more like a lion with the way his tall, muscular withers rolled beneath his charcoal hide.

Ulrik chose a cave that was not too large and not too small with solid rock on a narrow entrance. He inspected the inside to make sure that the small cut-out was not actually a massive room that, perhaps, could lead to tunnels for escape. No, it was entirely solid. Good. The stallion strode back out into the light and took a deep breath, closing his eyes as his mind constructed the pattern, the blue print off of which his magic would work.

Metal leaked out of ore veins in the mountain, and it began to take shape. The engineer stood perfectly still, eyes still closed. Parallel metal bars stood vertically, attached by metal cross beams that then punched their way into the rock, broken only by metal hinges on one side. Large, durable metal hinges that were locked from both sides. Finally, the locking mechanism.

He installed a little machine and a visual sensor that, after a few moments, stood waiting, pulsing a little, red light. Ulrik opened his eyes and then looked back, nodding his head over. "Let me teach you how to program faces into the locking mechanism. Only those you allow it to recognize will have access to open the gate. The gate itself is shut electromagnetically; without a proper visual, escape should be impossible."