[He breathes out a soft, surprised "huh!" at all of this. What sounded like frivolity when Sarkan described it sounds eminently practical coming from Petra; what a difference attitude makes.] How is--I'm sorry, let me think about how I want to phrase this.

How is all of this accomplished? That's to say--using the glyphs for instance, do they drive the moisture from the cloth somehow? Or heat the air above them? --I'm trying to think of how the effect might be exactly replicated with what we have, you see. Or if the method of action is altogether different from what we're used to doing.