Shifting through shards

"Speech"

Exciting! Delightful! What wonders had she come across? Trinkets! Bits! Bobs! Strange bits of metal and fascinating things! All strewn about in this fantastic field. Ignita had once spent some time studying an ancient ruin and creating a copper battery back in her homeland, but this! This was something else!

Ignita had come across the Veterans Plateau for the first time. She marveled at the ancient battlefield, oblivious to the bloodshed and ghosts. The mid-morning Autumn sun rose on her second birthday and delighted her with enough light and warmth to discover a land practically made for her. She could spend her life here if she wanted to! She could spend 4 lifetimes here and barely make a dent in categorizing and finding uses for all these pieces of detritus!

The little golden girl had set her goggles over her eyes as she darted between helmets, old guns, shards of bullets, and other bits of garbage. She carefully gathered several shards of hard helmets and placed them in a pile. Then carefully she picked through a large pile of scrap and bones, half buried in grass and dirt finding small bullet casings, and sorted them by size. She found a large barrel of an old rusted gun, long fallen away from the other components and blew through the tube to clear the mud and dirt out, looking through it to see the land on the other side.