"Relax, it's not Blue Star." Lin Mo waved a hand.
Thorin let out a long breath and patted his chest.
"That's what I thought. I was starting to think I'd drunk so much my ears were playing tricks on me."
"Carving runes over all of Blue Star? I wouldn't dare dream of it..."
"It's Blue Star's satellite, the Moon," Lin Mo said.
Thorin's hand froze in midair.
"???"
He stared at Lin Mo, opened his mouth, closed it again, then opened it once more.
"Isn't that still a whole planet!!!"
Lin Mo nodded.
With an expression that said "you've got to be kidding me," Thorin planted both hands on his hips and said irritably,
"Mr. Lin, well, thank you for thinking so highly of us Dwarves."
"Inscribing runes on a planet?"
"Why do you think we didn't do that back then?"
"Instead of dutifully burrowing underground and building Dwarf Mountain City?"
Lin Mo frowned. "You can't do it?"
"Of course we can't!"
Thorin's voice shot up an octave.
"Inscribing runes on a planet?!!"
"Have you gone mad, or have we Dwarves gone mad?"
He pointed up at the sky.
"Mr. Lin, I've noticed your ideas are getting bolder and bolder."
"Even if the God of Craftsmen were here, I doubt he would ever have dared consider something like that!"
Lin Mo was in no mood to banter with him. He said gravely,
"Then let's scale it down."
"A city, covering a few dozen kilometers. Can you inscribe gravity runes over that?"
Thorin froze.
He studied Lin Mo's expression and confirmed that he wasn't joking.
"You're serious?"
Lin Mo rolled his eyes.
"Do you think I have so much free time that I came all the way here to smell the booze on you just to joke around?"
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