Two pounds-ish is two pounds-ish! She can spend a few hours working it into wire later (ugh, but like, it's the only way to get copper wire), and that'll be an alternator~

She's almost giggly considering it. A light, a taser, a stepper motor as a key component in some kind of sentry, what to pick...

"Gaiiins from traaaade," sings Pej, like it's a lullaby, "they make everything better for everyone..."

"What's a more impressive thing to have when you swing back- A nonmagical light, a weakish lightning based holdout weapon, or a motion detector tripwire doohickey? -I'd want to do better than I can with just a bit of copper for the last one before trusting it to replace a watch, but like, layers of defense."

"Oh, the light, we could double up and see a bit farther when we've got to walk in the dark. Days are short up here."

"Yeah, same way in Frostbound. Until the nights are short in summer. Got it, a light."

"Will it look more like a Light or a Continual Flame or a Dancing Light?"

"...It'll look like a glass bottle with a small, very bright fire in it? If I can get a bit of polish I can make a cover to focus it in one direction."

"Oooh."

"I'm going to need a steady supply of coal - just a little bit, in this furnace here-" She'll actually take it off her back. Heavy thunk. "Coals go in here, water here, it's insulated, it makes pressurized steam, which drives the saw and also will power other stuff once I make the other stuff. Like the light. The saw was originally for cutting metal in a workshop but, uh, cut a dretch sufficiently that I didn't die and now one of its claws is now this kind of butt-spike thing here. I would not say I'm practiced with fighting. I've practiced shooting crossbows some and might buy one off the fort. I'm also hoping to manage this sort of - exoskeleton frame thing that will bear some of the weight for me, but that's not likely unless someone drops a box of scrapped weapons or armor on me."

"Crossbow won't do much unless you're very good or you get cold iron tipped bolts to go with, you know that, right?"

"Do you want broken cold iron arrowheads? Sometimes we collect them to Mend but it's ten minutes per and Pej doesn't actually have Mending himself, so they pile up."

"Well, yeah, but I wanted something to... Do. Keep busy. I probably can mend 'em the long way...? I'll return some of the fixed ones to you-all if I manage it. Working them at low temperature is a pain - had an idea for coating things in cold iron but can't try it without a city to buy materials at-"

Ierachi digs out a few pieces of arrowhead.

"-Yeah I can get at least two whole ones out of this."

"Neat. There's usually a bored wizard around who'll do the mending for us but it's more annoying up here because of how they're all diabolists."

"What does that actually... Look like, besides a bunch of slavery and torture?"

"I've never been to Cheliax and you've been here a while, haven't you?"

"I don't think a fort is the same. It looks like they mostly eat stew and play cards."

"Sometimes they probably call devils, for their blood, since Evil gods don't give out healing the same way and there's an evil spell to let wizards do it."

"They all go to Hell."

"Don't sign anything they give you."

"Yeah... It was verbal agreements only."

"Probably safe enough considering we're at the Wound."

"They're Lawful, but, like, barely."

"The law-chaos thing is kind of weird actually- We conflated law and good back home, I think. Anything chaotic was also evil, at least in the way people talked about it."

"Well, that's all wrong, freeing slaves without their owner's permission isn't Lawful at all but I'm proud to share Good with people who do it. It's got its pitfalls, though."

Nod, nod. "...Some of the things that were ordinary about home were probably evil. -We didn't have clerics. Or think gods are real for the most part."

"Weird."

"Rahadoum does that."

"And it's weird of them."

"They think they're real, they just don't like them for being foreign or something."

"Rahadoum sounds neat, if it keeps out things like Asmodeus. I'm not really clear on what gods are, but the Queen of England has been attributed with many and varied powers and sometimes described as a goddess."