Present day brush commutated electric motors include an armature having a plurality of coils wound in slots formed in the lamination stack of the armature. With traditional motor designs, the lamination stack of the armature forms a plurality of circumferentially arranged slots extending between adjacent pairs of lamination posts. Typically, two coils per slot are used when winding the armature coils on the lamination stack. Among the two coils of the same slot, the one which commutates first is referred to as the first coil and the one which commutates second as the second coil. The second coil has inherently poorer magnetic commutation than the first coil because the second coil passes beyond the magnetic neutral zone within the stator before it finishes commutation. This is illustrated injust the same, as if things are how they always used to be. And in a way, they are. I am anticipating her telling me how to fix this mess. I am anticipating being the pupil and she the instructor once again.

The easy breeze from the arched entryways makes the light drapery dance in the setting sunlight, and Mother drinks it in for a moment before looking at me. Her gray-blue eyes are steady, even steely, when she says, "We cannot trust your father, Magar Sepora. He would never exchange the annihilation of Theoria for a union with it. He could have had an alliance with Theoria for decades, had he chosen to meet King Knosi even halfway."

Magar Sepora is my full name, and Mother never uses it