Su Li leaned over for a look.
"Add crash barriers to every corridor corner, wrap cork strips around cabin door edges, lower the stair railings to..." Elena's pen flew across the paper as she wrote down item after item. "Deck railing gaps must not exceed twelve centimeters, to keep children from sticking their heads through."
Saina poked her head over to look as well. "Are you refitting a ship or building a kindergarten?"
"Is there a difference?" Elena did not even look up.
Su Li reached over, took the notebook, and flipped through it. Crash-proof, fall-proof, pinch-proof, scald-proof—even the height of the kitchen counters had been marked out.
"Fine." He handed the notebook back to Elena. "Tell the engineers to modify it according to this. Put the expenses under dockyard maintenance."
Elena put away the notebook, the corner of her mouth lifting almost imperceptibly.
That afternoon, Elonore hurried over from the workshop with an armful of blueprints.
She spread them across the stone table beside the dry dock. Her silver hair drifted back and forth in the sea breeze, forcing her to hold down the edges of the papers with one hand.
"I designed a low-power teaching circuit." She pointed at the dense lines on the blueprint. "Its output is only one percent of a standard first-tier circuit. Even if a cat touched it, it wouldn't react."
Su Li bent down for a look. The circuit structure was indeed stripped down to the extreme, using the most basic single-line connections, with vast amounts of redundant space left between the nodes.
"This is for the children to use later?"
Elonore nodded, the tips of her ears flushing faintly. "When they're five or six, they can use it to learn rune recognition. Just like learning to read—first the strokes, then the