He filed this. The seal system was going to be genuinely useful.
"That was different," Theron said, walking up.
"Seal system. Formal soul-script. The book I bought yesterday teaches it."
"You wrote a symbol, not a word."
"Compact character. Same underlying mechanic, imposing meaning on the realm, but the character is standardized, so the cost is lower. The trade is that I can only produce the specific effect the seal is designed for. But for standard uses, it's much cheaper than writing the full word."
"So you can use more of them."
"I can use many more of them. Roughly four times as many, in a day, as I could use words for the same effect."
Kael, cleaning his knife on the shell of one of the dead crabs, said: "That's a significant upgrade."
"It is."
"You'll teach us the theory?"
"When I finish the book. And when I have time to explain it properly. Yes."
"Good."
They butchered the crabs and moved on.
The seals worked in every combination Bruce tried through the morning.
