<span style="color: #ffa64d">"i am barely six months old, so, no, i use energy for everything i do that isn't rest. focusing on learning is taxing, my senses still take much of my energy all on their own and i have not been idle in over ten days."</span>her work was much slower then Serenity's but she had learned well. the extra energy link did help but her work went no faster.<span style="color: #ffa64d"> "it's not just the energy being expended, my mental and emotional reserves cannot be recharged so easily. i fear that while i can be a great help to the Eternal people it will be many decades, perhaps even centuries before i can begin to make real progress in living up to my potential... it is so frustrating having so much more power then i ever thought possible and still feeling like i cannot do enough for the people i see suffering."</span>Serenity finished her work and unceremoniously ejected Machinist towards her shell.<span style="color: #ffffff">"there, all of her faculties are restored. it will be some time before she returns to her full strength, though she will regain what she has though her full strength very quickly. her emotions will return over time, but even that will take some time. Empress, if you wish your wounds to be repaired you will need to allow me time to rest... and you will not give me your power anymore then your emotions." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>