A branch manager knew she was being dismissed the moment Elua declared that she was 'done teaching'. With a full amount of 'irritation' in the voice and spirit of the heiress, Dima knew she was being summarily dismissed by the mint-eyed teenager… who had been getting progressively more annoyed each time Dima successfully created a fragment. Storing a memory and recalling it with perfect clarity had been an incredible achievement to her - but she'd had to celebrate on her own.
When Dima managed to print an entire technical manual with only two attempts - a copy of one that didn't exist in the Exclave? The ancient cultivator's spirit had roiled with *petulance*. She'd spent long years figuring out the nuances of this technique and longer years refining it. Deciding how to make the device had been months of planning. Now, all because it could be presented in a clear form… a capable student could just consume it entirely in a week and start making her own progress.
