[Original] "Machine Dreams"

[ap0cryphal]

Title: Machine Dreams
Original
Rating: G
Notes: The abyss gazes, whether you do, or do not.

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Her calling was artifice. For the republic, she designed great engines, machines to excavate mountains and pluck rare minerals from barren rock. But she would never design machines to traverse the oceans.

She had determined to carry the answer to her grave, and amended her will for cremation instead of a sea burial.

She did not speak of her dreams, where divine precision was steadily infected with mechanisms liquid and squamous, from foul and abyssal depths. Voices whispering that they would make of her a mask. That her hands would shape the leviathans that would sink continents, unfurl mountain ranges.

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