If Zeph knew that basil was throwing Jade's tongue for a loop he would have likely lost it, and quietly ordered several varieties of it shipped to his ranch so he could grow it and let Laxana spend some time in the kitchen with Candi and Bel.
He was far too engrossed in explaining what little he knew about how a pellet or paintball gun functioned using compressed air or CO2 as propellant. It was like trying to tell someone who could build a cold fusion reactor in their sleep how a coal-fired plant or steam engine could generate power.
The technology was so antiquated that knowledge of it was essentially lost in the river of time if it was ever developed on Vlaras in the first place.
