“Electricity!”
“That word is too obscure.”
The next thing he knew, Thrall was giving a seminar on how lightening in the sky and a shock from wool clothing were the same thing. Electricity powered his whole world, and was tangible, easily quantifiable energy that could burn and kill. Shanelle had often used it on Roy – she had yet to try it on him.
“You could do it here.” Thrall gasped wistfully. “You need only some magnets and copper wire to generate electricity.”
From describing the most basic motor to explaining how spinning turbines in dams can light up an entire city, Thrall delighted his captors with scraps of high school-level science and engineering. In truth he had wondered why people with access to far more advanced worlds hadn’t seized on those advancements in order to bette
