solvent

Aukhiristys had just stepped outside to smoke some asphinette, when Thelgousse walked out
of the castalque.

Aukhiristys ashed her asphinette, then took a long drag.

"I wanted you to know' said Thelgousse "Your solutions to problems are considered weird"

"Oh ah", managed Aukhiristys between drags on the asphinette.

"No really. They are." Thelgousse blundered at her. Thelgousse was not known for being the crunchiest of croutons.

"Wait, you already know that they are?" misapprehended Thelgousse.

Aukhiristys threw the stump of the asphinette on the rainy soaked pavement, where it began to sublime.

Aukhiristys then said, as slowly and as calmly as her already taxed patience would allow

"Arcinder, nearly every time the Council was called by the Polity to solve a problem, it came up with conventional solutions -- by the book ones. You do know that all of them, bar none, failed miserably in ways that adherence to those book solutions could not have foreseen? The first time they managed to solve a problem, I think it was the Wehesc-Murmaro Crisis of '719, there have been so many now I can't keep track of them, I was called in. Wehesc-Murmaro's by the book solution that the Council member Ahimoyapte scru-Yorroniphque had proposed was about seventy percent failed at that point. I propose that they put a single wire between the ground of the acn-4 junction's serial port data lead no. 12a and the ground on one of the unused tertiary backup beam dumps some four hundred meters away. Suddenly, Wehesc-Murmaro doesn't matter anymore.

Arcinder, I don't think about these things the same way the Council does. They don't understand anything about how Howar-Kukello was constructed. And neither do you"