'Your leg injuries have gotten worse from too much strenuous activity at Sanctilaminium Ambrosii... This is ridiculous! How could they send you on such a dangerous mission?!' 'All the reports at the time indicated it would be a perfectly ordinary nomadic monastery reception. Nobody expected any developments requiring me to... stand.' 'Are you sure you're okay? I'm saying there's more to it than just your legs. You seem like you're brooding over something. Did your experiences at the monastery bring up any bad memories...? That's it, I'm going to go file a complaint with the Seventh Tribunal! They've gone too far!' 'Pfft. I was just wondering—if I'd gone on that mission with a better-designed wheelchair, would I have had to expend so much effort? That said, my experiences there taught me what my current wheelchair was lacking. Would you like to see the drafts?' [Wheelchair Design Draft] Tires: Non-pneumatic, solid tires made from rigid resin. Wheelchairs cannot accommodate thick tires, while thin pneumatic tires are easily punctured in the wilds. According to Mostima, the big lake near Laterano's route hosts fowlbeasts migrating from the Iberian coast every spring. Need to find the time to go 'wheel-hiking' to see them. Hubs: Struggling to come up with a hub design that looks good. At first, I wanted them to look like a revolver cylinder, but I don't think that's enough. I've got it. Way back when, El and I looked into what beautiful stained glass church windows would look like if they were spun around! We never did figure out how to spin an entire church, but we can make the hubs look like stained glass, right? Motor system: Not sure if an application for a military-grade motor system would be approved... but since this wheelchair is going to be registered as my official vehicle, it might actually work out. It'd mean I'd be able to take part in real races. Keep the push-rims. Would it still be considered legal for bicycle races if hand-powered? ...... Her slew of ideas was enough to fill more than ten pages, every page accompanied with hand-drawn diagrams alongside the occasional scratchy doodle. 'That's a <i>lot</i> of them... Are you able to, like, make clones of yourself or something? You were stuck in bed the whole time. When did you find the time to make these designs?' 'When I was stuck in bed, of course. When you're just lying there awake, your mind tends to wander. But the last little thing I needed to add to the design of the operating system was something that suddenly hit me at Sanctilaminium Ambrosii: I'd like to add brightness tracking and automatic navigation functions.' 'What kind of situation would a wheelchair need brightness tracking in...?' 'Once I've recovered, I'd like to put a flowerpot on it, then let it go off chasing the sun every day, carrying that flower along to bask in its rays. That way, it would get to have an interesting life of its own.'