[h2]Luke Schwarz -- How do you field strip gauntlets?[/h2]

[b]"Yeah."[/b] he replied with a nod, watching as his teammate dissected and reconstructed her rifle with mild curiosity. [b]"I doubt we're gonna have another random incident like that, so it's gotta be a step up at least."[/b]

Deconstruction, contemplation, reconstruction, all in the span of two, possibly three minutes. Most of it being the step in the middle, to boot. What minutiae could she possibly be fussing over? It looked a lot like those blueprints she'd pulled up to him, but then again, he knew nothing of firearms. All those tiny mechanisms, springs, locks, levers... they were all beyond alien to him, as much as his hair was to Gratia, seated all the way up at the front of the desks. Glancing up at the impassive curtain of ebony hair some three desks up, his eyes bored into the back of the huntress's head for a moment, noting a disappointed-looking Gren walking away from his no doubt brief as all hell conversation with her.

[i]Why [u]is[/u] she so pushy with me, anyway? Are her teammates and I the only people she's spoken to since getting here?

It can't just be my hair that's elavated my stature amongst everyone else.

R-Right?[/i]

Exhaling a breath he didn't know he'd been holding through his nose, his eyes turned downwards as he activated the first stage of his right watch's transformation. A familiar sensation similar to putting on a heavy glove struck him, and in the watch's place was a gauntlet of gleaming silver plate, extending all the way up to his elbow. Gauntlet being used as an easier, shorter term than "gauntlet, vambrace, and reverbrace", that is, but you get the picture. Wiggling his fingers and rotating his wrist, the pugilist did his level best to fit in with everyone else working on their weapons, testing the articulation.

As always, full range of motion. He could have it on all the time during his daily life, if he [i]really[/i] wanted to.

Beyond that though, he wasn't quite sure what to do with it. He wasn't exactly sure how to take it apart and fiddle with the inner workings...

[b]"Say, Cian. You designed that yourself?"[/b]