Look For The Ring.

"Where'd the ring go?" Hephaestus asked, looking around for the box and it's very expensive gift.

"I don't know: we must find it!" Lady Xian replied and they each started crawling around the floor looking for the wayward item.

The box was soon located, but that was the problem: they found it atop one of the heat vents in next to the wall, and the ring was not in it...

"Ministers of Heaven what an inauspicious beginning to a relationship!" Lady Xian said on the verge of tears but Hephaestus was undaunted.

"Oh ye of little faith!" He said with a smirk and walked over to his desk, taking a large package out of the top right hand drawer. He levered up the vent cover and opened the silver box which revealed a laptop wired in to a set of 8 thin metallic cables attached to another small panel and placed it over the opening.

"What's that?" Lady Xian asked and Hephaestus smiled.

"This is my Octo-Waldo-Array Mark-Four. These waldos can extend up to a range of 15 feet, and be fitted with attachments to cut, weld, grip, glue, suture, or dissolve on the molecular level whilst and at the same time feeding back auditory, visual, and tactile data to the screen here in real time," Hephaestus explained, "their standard attachment is a micro hand like arrangement that lets them grip things and this should allow them to retrieve the ring." Lady Xian looked impressed and Hephaestus set to work.

Five minutes of operating the waldos through the duct work later the ring was back in Hephaestus hand, and he went to place it on Lady Xian's hand...