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[ Cobb's voice comes off camera because the image in the video is a speeder. He has yet to wash the Agrii symbol off it. The pink clashes with the yellow a little bit. It's parked outside the hangar, engine off so it's not spinning. Just hovering a few inches off the ground like speeder do. ]

Well. It seems the Agrii left me a gift. This beauty is mine from back home. Gonna clean that graffitti off. I built her myself. She's a modified 620C podracing engine I found in a junkyard in Mos Espa years ago and she's served me well. Don't know why she's here but I don't really care.

[ Finally, he turns the camera back to himself. Cobb's a little beat up. His face has healing bruises and cuts. Something happened but it hasn't dampened his joy any. ]

Those of you who wanted to build your own speeder, I'll let you take a look at mine. I can tell you how I built her. Not sure how technical I can get but I'll do my best.

Those of you who might need to get somewhere fast and far, riding with two is not comfortable but I've done it before. Might be possible to take folks around town. Don't think I can get her to the new town but maybe. Gotta be careful with fuel around here, you know. Might be worth trying.

If you hear me riding around later today, don't worry about it. Just stretching her legs.

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[ 'Spaceship fuel' tells Alberto absolutely nothing about what the speeder needs. Cobb might as well have told him the thing runs on will power alone.

It seems like the problem here is that they don't have whatever Spaceship fuel is, and so the solution should be erasing the necessity in the first place. ]

Why not change the inner workings of the speeder, so it can run on something else? [ Alberto knows that human vehicles like boats and trains work with things found on earth, not space, so there must be something they can use. Like wood or carbon. ]

It never hurts to try!

Because it's real complicated.

[ It sounds easy enough but a pod racer engine is a delicate machine even though it's a beast. If the weight is thrown off even slightly it could easily spin the whole thing out of control.

The kid clearly doesn't know that though and is just trying to help. Enthusiasm is a double edged lightsaber sometimes. ]

And I'm not gonna start hacking her to pieces just because.

Things that are worth anything are often complicated. [ Children and their simple truths, hm? Alberto figures this is just a matter of trial and error, like when Luca and he were trying to build a Vespa, except ten times more difficult. ]

Do you have anything better to do? [ Honest question here, he's not being sarcastic. The city is mostly in ruins and Alberto hasn't seen anybody working on shops or occupying their full time with an specific activity like fishing. He relents at those last words, though, because it's clear that the speeder means a lot to Cobb. ]

Ah well... it's a really pretty floating bike, so I can understand the reluctance.

[ There is some sort of wisdom to the words. The hard things are often worth it in the end but with limited resources changing up the speeder wasn't something to take lightly. ]

I do, actually. I've got houses to finish fixing up and a mine to keep figuring out. [ But he wouldn't let the speeder sit around like a pretty ornament. It could be real useful if he got a reliable fuel source. ] And with everyone exploring back and forth someone's got to keep this place in order.

But I'm going to make sure she can keep running.

[ Now and then Alberto does come up with something that isn't total nonsense, truly a miracle. Cobb's answer also makes sense, and it's true that a lot of things in the city need fixing. ]

I could help you with that, the repairing or the mines. I don't mind hard work. [ He wants to be useful, and it seems like the least he can do if Cobb is going to teach him stuff about the speeder. ]

I'm mostly staying here, anyway. [ He's visited the other city but Tembla has an ocean and if Luca ever arrives to this world, instinct will probably draw him to the sea. ]

Kid, what do you know about any of this?

[ Look, he's just a little skeptical. He looks young. Too young to want to spend his days underground fixing things. ]

Because to fix this stuff it takes special knowledge. [ The kind that has to be downloaded into a person's head. ] Don't you wanna go play and explore? Make trouble?

I know things! I already liked to build and fix stuff back home, Luca and even made a few Vespas. [ From scrap, without motors and that fell apart within minutes, but Cobb didn't need to hear about that. ] And here, I touched one of those flying, pearl-shaped things. An orb? I found a yellow one in a big building, and it was...it was weird. But now I know how we're supposed to make the crystals that power up things and upgrade the machines. I never even heard that word before in my world, upgrade, but now I know how it's supposed to happen.

[ It was so strange to suddenly have all this knowledge dumped on his mind, even if it's useful. Alberto is avoiding touching more glowing orbs for that very reason. They give him the creeps. ]

I can multitask, the days are long. [ He grins after a moment, sounding very sure of himself. ] And I can easily get into places adults are too big to fit into. See? It's all advantages.

[ He gets where Cobb is coming from, and Alberto knows how to entertain himself plenty, but his mind wanders to bad places too if he's on his own for long. If hard work is what it takes to be allowed near other people, it's not that much of a bad deal. ]

[ Well, at least the kid had the right data point and Cobb sees an opportunity there. ]

We do need someone to make a steady supply of those crystal. No one's really doin' that right now. Maybe we find you a place for a workshop and you can start making those.

[ Give the kid his own place to work and a job, keep his focus on something instead of having him running around making trouble. Or finding trouble as he got into things. ]

We've got once place we need to squeeze into and I'm workin' on that. So, won't need little things to get in much longer.

I can do that. I just need the right materials to make them and I can start. [ He doesn't mention that those are found in the beach caves because he knows Cobb seems to have a bad rapport with caves in gneral. ] Oh, real workshop? I never had one of those. Back home I just used my hideout to store supplies and tools, but I also slept there.

[ It's sweet of Cobb to think that working on this will stop Alberto from getting into trouble. That's just a thing that happens, like an unwritten law of the universe, but at least he doesn't do it on purpose (most of the time). ]

What place? The cave from the other day? [ He pauses, considering Cobb's words before he adds, half question, half not. ] You're trying to make the entry wider?

We'll find you a place. You can pick it out. [ Hopefully, Cobb could steer him away from the mines where the kid was real determined to be. ] Would make sense to have it near the beach.

[ A lifetime of mining against his will made Cobb a little twitchy about being in a mine again. He'd get over it. ]

It's not a cave. It's a mine. Some folks dug that out on purpose. Big difference. We're trying to figure out what they did in there. That's it. [ If that means widening some things, that's what he's doing. ]

[ He smiles at that, already excited about the idea. Because, of course, finding the right place means exploring around more. ]

Will do! It's gonna be great, trust me. Did you touch one of the floating orbs? Besides the first one, we see when we get here.

[ It was a cruel and harsh life, so it's no wonder Cobb feels like that. Alberto would have no love for the mines either if he were in his place. ]

Ah, right, you mentioned that. I keep forgetting the word, sorry. But the mines aren't safe for you, either. You sure you don't need some extra hands? You got hurt.

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Yeah, I did. I've got Engineering. Means I know how to fix things around here.

[ He wasn't sure what the kid knew or didn't know. He seemed eager to learn no matter what. ]

I would rather we don't go in unless we have to. To avoid more people getting hurt like I was.

We must have touched the same orb then. It was so strange, suddenly knowing things about machines I've never seen before. I think Luca would love it, once he stopped freaking out. He's really smart and excitable.

[ Alberto doesn't know as much as he thinks he does, but he's sure willing to keep learning. He finds the human world fascinating, even if he's also going to explore the ocean of Tembla. It's new too, and who knows what secrets it hides. ]

No, I meant in your other projects no underground related. Aside from the crystal making.

He's excitable? [ Because Cobb would say the same thing about Alberto, who was pretty much the definition for excitable. ]

Oh. You know anything about fixing up a house? Or catching animals? [ Because those are the other projects Cobb's got going. He's fixing houses and trying to catch wildlife to raise as a meat source. ] Because that's what else I've got goin' right now.

Well...heh. [ The kid chuckles, scratching his head and grinning sheepishly. Okay, you've got him there. ]

The second one. I'm the best at fishing, I can get you all the food you need. I just have to check that animal list you showed me to make sure I don't bring any that are poisonous.

[ He just needs a place to put them, so he can carry them to the city, and you'll get so many fishes and crustaceans, Cobb, so many. ]

Fishing would be great. We really need a steady source of meat.

[ And fishing was a lot easier than raising glownies and slaughtering them. Not that Cobb would stop that. ]

Sounds like a great job for you, kid.

Say no more, I'll take care of that. [ He just needs to find some nets and crates to keep the fishes, he will check out that target building again later. He gives Cobb a bright smile. ]

Thanks! Once I get the fish, where should I leave them? Do you have a pescheria here? Or a big fridge?

There's a diner in town. Bring 'em there. There's a cold box for 'em.

[ That will, hopefully, keep the kid busy. ]

Got it. I'll do that and let you know.

[ He knows how to entertain himself, worry not. Or worry a lot, because what he does to keep himself busy is hardly safe on the best of days. ]

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