[Interestingly enough, this sort of ties right into what he and Waver had discussed a month prior about the flow of magic and working around blocks. He listens to Grell chatter as he brings the papers closer to his face to read them over. What she's come up with is actually a very solid idea. It's similar to what he's created with his gauntlets thanks to the monarchs but more organic. The trouble he'd had recently with his gauntlets is the magic pooling together at the center and not always evenly distributing. With Grell's method it seems more balanced.]

Incredible. [This is science, this is more similar to what he's known his entire life and it's pathways and circuits and balances and equations. It's exciting, really. He puts down Grell's notes and crosses the room again to pick up the ash and the jar of wax and water before returning to her side.]

So with the paint...I don't know if this is totally gonna work, I just read about it on the internet. But we should be able to mix the ash with a bit of wax and the wax will act as a binder. Otherwise the ash would just smear and run with the water. Mixing all three of them should stabilize the compound so that we can use it. Worth a try at least. I won't use a lot of the ash until we're really sure it'll work. Got a container I can mix this in? Otherwise it'll be kinda messy.