"What exactly happens when they're used?" Raine was just trying to figure this out... really. The fact that she very much wanted to know anyway was secondary. "The ones I'm familiar with use up large amounts of mana, and when levels are low enough magic doesn't work and crops won't grow. When magitechnology was common, it was slowly killing the planet; that was long ago, but the effects have proved to be farther reaching than anyone of this era knew."

She knew well that the machines of which they both spoke, related or not, could devastate an entire planet. While that meant even Raine would never even try to get one working unless there was honestly no choice, there was nothing wrong with studying it indirectly...