Milan glanced back. "Machina," he repeated. "Interesting word. What I did on my home world... I was a scientist. I designed... machina, if I've guessed the meaning of the word correctly, as pasrt of my work. But the technology here is more advanced that anything we could have imagined. I think it would be incredibly easy to use - if it were not so alien."
He laid the newly-fabricated trousers out for Braska. He watched the man pull at his robes and turned back for a few moments to make a long strip of cloth for a sash.