[SYSTEM OBSERVATION]
The fracture had taken him in the middle of a sentence.
Bram continued to say to whatever floor he happened to be standing on, "is that lime render cures at th'surface and leaves th'interior unsettled. Looks finished. Isn't finished. Hydraulic sets through, all th'way to th'back of th'material. Y'don't get a clean face over a problem y'haven't solved. Y'get a solved problem."
His hands reached the floor before the final words left his mouth. He felt the stone even as he spoke. Then he lifted his head.
The system had no records for this space. That had become a familiar circumstance during these observations, and the system had long since learned to accept it.
But the system did possess records for eld dwarves. That classification had required entirely new structures when it was first confirmed, because the category itself was older than the frameworks meant to contain it.
