Ivy was trembling, half manic, when Jötz finally released her, showing no sign of having heard anything he'd said...but then her ears were still ringing from the explosion, which only served to bolster her excitement. 

She scrambled to her feet, slipping only once as the water began to drain away, then stood as near to the furnace as the could manage, newly truncated arm raised against the heat. She could hear pumps and drains kicking to life under her feet as the lights flickered on overhead and the barge began to rise in the water. It had worked! Granted, not quite how she'd planned, but they could [i]move[/i] now, and any, that explosion had been well worth it. 

The engine behind her gave the occasional cough, which she ignored for now -- she could fix that later, she was sure. She could probably get it to burn faster, and cleaner, too. And when she mounted the barge's defenses, she could harvest any recoil energy and send it here. In fact, she could probably get the whole thing to run faster [i]while[/i] it was firing away into the darkness!

She turned to Jötz only as she happened to pass him en route down the dimly lit hallway, abruptly remembering his presence. 

"How far will the canals take us?" she asked. "Do you think we can get around the whole world? Or...or maybe back to Motorhum, I bet if I showed them...we could open up new lines of trade and no one would even [i]know[/i]!" She frowned suddenly, oblivious to the black and red streak across her forehead the Jaeger had pointed out. "We might need to lay some new canals. I was thinking maybe I could attach something to the bottom of the barge, like...like, a big scoop, and then we'll have to go down and lay...something nicer than cement, too much friction, if we want to travel the world, we have to be able to move [i]faster[/i]..."

She looked up at him, frowning. "Where [i]are[/i] we going? That place you said...do you know how to get there?"