Light leaked into the window from the sun outside. It was bright outside-
Kaelen, thinking: (Must be morning now.)
The sun never went down, not anymore, the light of day never ceasing. It only varied in amount. An endless morning. Kaelen was still able to remember the story of how the light was the eye of their God, Lumex, watching over their world despite how tired he was. He had once heard that long ago there were times of day when the light stopped, the stories called that time night but that was ridiculous. How could there be no light at all?
Kaelen, thinking: (Maybe people just used to call low light no light.)
But no. That didn't make sense, not really. Why say there was no light if there was some light? Either way he had things to do today so would have to get up, no matter the time. And so, reluctantly, he gets out of bed and focuses inward. The orb of energy, Luminosity, at the core of his consciousness shrinks just a bit, fabric didn't use much up. The substance pools up on his skin, evaporating into a mist as it forms a basic t-shirt and pair of trousers.
Kaelen: It'll have to do. Don't think I have enough for anything more complex today.
He'd have to find the odd chair or bit of fabric to Blaze and stock up his Luminosity.
Kaelen: (Assuming no one notices I might even be able to get my hands on some extra meat.)
Meat was the best source that wasn't a living being, and he really needed more Luminosity. At the rate he was going he wasn't sure he'd have enough of the stuff to pass the whole week. He checks around the room and manages to find a spare coin.
Kaelen, smiling: Seems like my luck is up!
He plays around with it for a bit between his fingers before focusing on the metal coin. It sets alight, Blazing, turning into mist and entering his skin. His Luminosity went back up by some amount or other. He wasn't great with measuring Luminosity, perhaps that was how he ended up almost broke.
Kaelen: Shame it's too late to properly learn. -Oh well, that'll have to do with morning Blazing. I'm getting too distracted here.
Anyone could Blaze any given object or plant, that was the easy part of all of this. It was Fabrication that was hard. You could only really Fabricate something if you were either very familiar with it or had an extremely good imagination depending on what it was you were trying to Fabricate. That's why a small but highly intricate wooden figure that took only 5 or 6 Lux to Fabricate could be sold for up to 20 Lux. Because most of the population wouldn't be able to Fabricate something like that no matter how hard they tried.
Kaelen: Which is also why it's extremely dangerous to Fabricate meat. If you don't know your stuff you could easily poison yourself.
Weapons though? Weapons were easy. All they had to be was sharp. That's what he was good at with this, Fabricating weapons. He was extremely good, too good for any of what he made to be affordable by anyone within 100 miles.
Kaelen: And now I'm broke.
He would move, but again, he's broke. And he's not up to walking over 100 miles, he's not desperate enough for that yet. But enough talking to himself, he went outside and into the market. He had a lot of minor theft to do, and not a lot of time to do it, the festival lasted only a few hours and it was the only period of time when everyone was distracted enough to not notice someone Blazing in the street.
???: Well you look grim as ever Kaelen.
Kaelen: What do you want, Talyndra? I'm not in the mood for this.
Tali: You know it's just Tali.
Kaelen: And you know I'm busy on festivals.
Tali: Stealing no doubt.
Kaelen: You know I have to.
Tali: You don't have to do anything. You could always just- I don't know- make a weapon that
isn't extremely intricate?
Kaelen: I have standards.
Tali: Your standards are going to get you killed.
Kaelen: And?
Tali: And I'd hate to see you die because you won't swallow your pride and make a basic sword for once! Come on Kaelen! It's not hard!
Kaelen: It's hard for me. I take pride in what I'm good at, I don't see why I shouldn't have standards for what I make.
Tali: But letting them kill you?!
Kaelen: My standards won't kill me. The starvation will.
Tali: We both know you know what I meant.
Kaelen: If you don't mind, I need to go and steal what I can to Blaze.
Tali, annoyed: *sigh* Don't. It's- Here.
Tali holds out a hand sized iron ingot.
Kaelen: And this is?
Tali: You know what it is.
Kaelen: I'm not-
Tali: Just take it.
Kaelen: I won't.
Tali: You need more Luminosity, right? Take this. You won't have to steal.
Kaelen: I'm not taking your charity.
Tali: I'm not letting you steal.
Kaelen: Let me rephrase this- I'm not taking your charity.
Tali drops the ingot.
Tali: Would you look at that? There's a free ingot on the floor.
Kaelen, annoyed: Talyndra.
Tali: Tali. Take. It.
Kaelen, annoyed: *sigh* But only because I have better things to be doing than dealing with you.
Tali: Sure you do.
Kaelen picks up the ingot, focusing inward once again, the ingot turning into mist and then melting into his skin joining the rest of his Luminosity.
Tali: Better?
Kaelen: Not really.