He gave her a raised eyebrow. "Oh, so you don't want that personal time I mentioned earlier?"<br/><br/>He let her go after returning the teasing, before putting the metal casing aside. The project just wasn't working today, but he had other things he could work on. First, he wanted to try an experiment in rifling, cutting a metal tube in half, using a tiny touch of acid to put the grooves in, and then using the make whole spell to put it back together. After that...<br/><br/>Several hours later, he finally finished, the acid idea had worked, but had cut too much of the slug's power. He was improving though. He finished cleaning up, grab Flute and the Orb of Chaos, and headed back inside to see how bad things were going. Though he did first ask his daughter a question. "Am I just struggling against the tide here with the space goats, or does this have an actual chance of getting them out of here?"