<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi took the pin and bent it with his hands, testing its durability.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"> “One of the more precise applications of transmutations that i've been working on is the strengthening of materials."</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he explained, bending it back to its original shape before placing it in his palm and holding his other hand over it, eyes half closed. It was almost as if the ridges in his palms seemed to glow with a faint blue-violet light, the pin vibrating. He stood still for nearly a minute before the glow dropped. Testing the pin himself before handing the pin back.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"> "By rearranging the actual composition the metal, you can actually alter something's strength."</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> it looked the same. Aside from where he'd dented it prior to casting. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">"Though chances are, given what you are, you'll still be able to bend it...."</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he paused a moment.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"> "This is, of course, only the first step. A demonstration of the concept behind the second step."</span>