"A woman named Ezra. She's very small, but powerful. Bested me in combat when I was overwhelmed by hunger."

She smiles, looking him over.

"She wears the scales of a mighty snake monster."

it works really well for the flightless."

Vibeke leads him to a very vertical room, with platforms scattered seemingly randomly about the walls. She flies him up to one of them and gets down to show a mechanism on the floor.

"This plate makes temporary bridges based on your eyesight. I don't need it because I have wings, but-

She stands on an elevated bit of ground, causing an arcane machine in the corner to glow. The valkyrie moves her head, creating the outline of stairs that go up, then looks forward to create a similary rexrured pathway.

"Temporary structures... They go off of your eye movements."

"They do."

She rubs it together on her fingers, producing red sparks.

"Here, I'll show you my favorite room."

Vibeke skips over to another "door," and when she touches it, it disappears. It reappears when the two enter the new part of the tower.

-

The smell is similar to copper.

"I've learned that technology is far more advanced in other places. So, the magic things from my world seem to pale in comparison."

She also touches the dust.

"This material makes things move and react."