[Even if she's not sure if they're designed to explode or just offer a nasty electric shock, a spell to make things stop should do the trick, between the spell's effects and magic's generally disruptive effects on technology. So Sabriel lets go of the initial spell, the marks drifting apart and fading away, and reaches for another sequence of marks. This one is more elaborate- at first, it looks like a single one, but on closer inspection, it's a dozen marks forming the shape of a greater one. With a gesture, Sabriel guides it into the cuff at his wrist, the marks seeping into the metal and then gliding over it.]
That might have been the intention, but... Well, I assume they don't have magic in your world?
Do you want her to get them off?
[Even if she's not sure if they're designed to explode or just offer a nasty electric shock, a spell to make things stop should do the trick, between the spell's effects and magic's generally disruptive effects on technology. So Sabriel lets go of the initial spell, the marks drifting apart and fading away, and reaches for another sequence of marks. This one is more elaborate- at first, it looks like a single one, but on closer inspection, it's a dozen marks forming the shape of a greater one. With a gesture, Sabriel guides it into the cuff at his wrist, the marks seeping into the metal and then gliding over it.]
That might have been the intention, but... Well, I assume they don't have magic in your world?
[Sabriel offers a reassuring smile.]