The Cast let out a loud sizzle before a flash of light lit up his tent and sent sparks flying in all directions. Wu spun his head hard to avoid the light, though that violent movement might have given him a bit of whiplash as a result.
"Oooh boy." Wu massaged his neck muscles and looked at the burning piece of absolute mess in front of him. So it turns out, science is fucking hard, no matter which world you are in.
He had been approaching the issues of miniaturizing Casts for a few days. The very first step was deceptively easy, and that provided him with a false sense of security that's coming back to bite him in the butt. When he wrote the Casts of a simple store/release from Lera on a much smaller scale, it simply reduced the size of the Wave that could have been contained within the Cast.
